Merry Christmas Guys and Gals not long now!

View · by **muddy_clothes** » 25 Dec 2006, 04:14

Aww, if it's still cold you're welcome to come over for a warm Christmas pudding bath.

(You guys still really use coal across the pond? I know here factories and powerplants do, but houses are usually LP gas & electric, or occasionally fuel oil. It just seems so...weird to think of a coal truck delivering coal.)

View · by **DecadentDoll** » 26 Dec 2006, 14:24

muddy_clothes wrote:Aww, if it's still cold you're welcome to come over for a warm Christmas pudding bath.

(You guys still really use coal across the pond? I know here factories and powerplants do, but houses are usually LP gas & electric, or occasionally fuel oil. It just seems so...weird to think of a coal truck delivering coal.)

most houses are gas or oil or electric. i just happen to only be able to afford a really cheap rent place that still has a glass fronted coal fire...which is linked to all my radiators. dont go thinking we live in turf huts and believe in leprechauns or anythin.

i just happen to be skint!

DD x x x

P.S. i dont get it delivered i usually get it at the garage then walk it home in a trolley. I pride myself in being so primitive!

View · by **Hayley** » 26 Dec 2006, 14:27

So that's why you have so many trolleys!

Hayley (and merry christmas, Dolly!)

View · by **andy250** » 27 Dec 2006, 16:52

Dolly your place rocks!!! I love coal fires, we use to have one years ago, their just brill, thing is can you still get coal etc!!!!

regards

Andy
(posh have gas!!!! or have i got gas????)

View · by **muddy_clothes** » 31 Dec 2006, 20:45

I guess it doesn't take much coal than, sort of like a BBQ grill. I guess I was envisioning an old locomotive or a boilerroom with people continuously shoveling bunkers of coal.

Apart from slag I use to sandblast I don't think i've ever seen coal around here. The industrial revoution passed through all of the town's houses long before I was born. My grandparents had a coal furnace, but with an automatic feeder and coal came by truck. I had an oil-burner myself until just a few years ago when the house got too big for the furnace.

(Trolley = shopping cart, Trolley != routemaster bus, correct)

View · by **Richard** » 31 Dec 2006, 23:58

muddy_clothes wrote:(Trolley = shopping cart, Trolley != routemaster bus, correct)

Close, but no cigar, muddy

. Yes, in the Dolly context a trolley is a shopping cart; but a Routemaster bus is a different thing altogether. It's a double-decked diesel vehicle used (usually in London) for short distance public transport within the city. Sadly the last one was recently withdrawn. A trolleybus is an electric powered people carrier drawing it's power from twin overhead cables (like a tramcar but without rails).

I know that things can be a bit primitive in the former colonies but do try to keep up!

View · by **Hayley** » 01 Jan 2007, 17:42

I often wonder what the Australians make of the name Routemaster! Buses for sex gods!

Hayley

PS Bill has central heating and a coal fire for fun. He loves getting it going. It's a primevil man thing, I'm guessing.

View · by **wamram** » 01 Jan 2007, 17:53

Hayley wrote:
PS Bill has central heating and a coal fire for fun. He loves getting it going. It's a primevil man thing, I'm guessing.

It is, Man + fire= happy,

Where even worse with a BBQ, Man + fire + meat to cook= caveman again.

wamram

View · by **andy250** » 01 Jan 2007, 20:35

Good idea, eveybody round to Dolly flat for a Barby!! on the coal fire.

regards

Andy
(ye of the hop a long due to the dodgy big toe!!!!)

View · by **muckypup** » 01 Jan 2007, 20:54

I'm getting an image od Dolly as a little victorian urchin all covered in soot... quite liking that image

View · by **DecadentDoll** » 01 Jan 2007, 21:20

muckypup wrote:I'm getting an image od Dolly as a little victorian urchin all covered in soot... quite liking that image

im a lovable cockney chimney sweep sometimes haha

yeah dashing about barefoot in raggy clothes covered in soot. like something out of A Christmas Carol!

View · by **muckypup** » 02 Jan 2007, 21:11

cor blimey, you look right beautiful in that. Can I help you out of your dirty clothes?

View · by **muddy_clothes** » 03 Jan 2007, 04:10

I blame Murray Walker. I knew the "real" ones were all out of service but I thought routemaster was a generic name or manufacturer.

View · by **Richard** » 03 Jan 2007, 13:35

Ah yes, the legendary Murray Walker, the acme* of accurate broadcasting :roll:

Routemaster was originally a Leyland product, I think there are still a few restored examples around, used for tourist city tours.

*see the 'roadrunner' cartoon series.

Richard

View · by **muddy_clothes** » 04 Jan 2007, 04:33

Dispite his sickening enthusiasm for Damon Hill, a man known to throw away any opportunity to come near, he was a lively old man and was pretty entertaining for what would have otherwise been processional races in post-senna F1 of 90's. I only saw him a couple years, when the Canadian station showed F1 races from the UK feed over the air into the US when Brundle was in the booth part time. Since then, reliable F1 coverage has been pretty hit or miss.

Not that the team of David Hobbs and Bob Varsha with occasional drops ins by Peter Windsor and Steve Matchett isn't servicable. Apart from Hobbs sometimes entertaining commentary it's all pretty low budget, our guys sit in a studio in New York and talk over the races, They Aren't Even There :roll:

Merry Christmas Guys and Gals not long now!

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