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SillyBilly wrote:Any cheap steam engines ?

i highly doubt it

i should think that for christmas i would want an edrig chassis. as the current one would probs be work out by then.

andysleigh wrote:i should think that for christmas i would want an edrig chassis. as the current one would probs be work out by then.

I told you that it would be nackered after its first year !

Well now that christmas is just over a month away, I thoink now's the time to bring this topic back from the dead. What is everyone getting this year, and what are you doing this year?

My parents thought of getting me and my brothers a Wie (I think that's how it's spelt, forgive me for my ignorence if it isn't) but decided against it after seeing a tv ad for it.

Now they're getting us all a new wide screen tv , and for me, a load of top gear dvds .

Also, I'll be spending a week or so in Furness over the new year period like I did last year. Anyone planning a new year's open day?

NO IDEA!! is the truth! my family are bugging me but i just dont know what to ask for!


xmas at home and going to a crank up on boxing day

My parents have bought my main present for the year, I have no idea what it is though for once

Picked up the box and feels rather weighty though Sods law it will turn out to be something I'm not expecting!

We are going away on holiday this Christmas for the first time ever. We are going to Austria for a week

Well, i already have some of the stuff I'm getting (at least on the garden railways front!)

I recently purchased a Hudson tool/riding van (from trisiiac i think) off ebay and I'm pretty sure it has just arrived, well got a failed delivery notice saying iv got to go pick it up! So i am looking forward to building that. Also I've bought a few other bits n bobs off IP eng. so i can (at least try to!) finish off some of those many outstanding projects.

I'm hoping for a Jensen 75, I bought off of Ebay a Mamod SP6 for my grandparents to give me, I hopefully have a MSS loco coming and maybe a set of castings for a Stuart 10V...amongst other things-subscriptions etc

Trust you Jim to have another MSS!!!!

I already have my main prezzie, the Fowler, but I'm getting the loco building book, and hopefully a few small items... probably clothing! Not doing much, probably run the Fowler on xmas day though as a Xmas special lol!

A couple of kits, oh and probably a new Roundhouse engine as well
After christmas, I usually attend my lttle cousins birthday party, getting thrashed at ten pin bowling, have a day volunteering on permanant way at Ravenglass, and on the 29th im hoping to go to the PTLR's chritmas steamup (ptlrcecil has already given me orders on what engine to bring, and it isn't the new one )

have already got my presant an new Lathe lol

Christmas at home with wife and toddler. Goose for dinner with a few goblets of mead, whisky in the evening with the log fire burning.

I'm looking forward to it

Wife has bought me a cottage from lineside delights for christmas, so I will make a start on that over the holidays.

im trying to ignore christmas like i do every year

I.P Engineering Ffestiniog Quarryman's Brakevan
Peter Jones' new book
Some 7mm Narrow Gauge track for an uncompleted project that resides in the garage
Forklift Challenge set
Digital callipers (SHR goes technical, or does hope to at somepoint during 2009)

I always know what my presents are as I have to be present when they are bought or ordered so they dont make a horrible mistake.
Im not going to say what my big pres will be but heres a hint.

Hmm, well I'm getting the Dr Who series Four soundtrack off my boyfriend. I think that I'm most likely to get money, though a cardboard cut out of Simm's Master wouldn't go amiss

Not much of a hint then!

Not at all, there's no one here that would give it to me, lol.