Well Christmas this year is going to be different for everyone. No family get-togethers, social distancing and lots of Zooming this year. Hopefully Christmas 2021 will be back to normal?
Always one to adapt and to get things right our darling daughter Lorna brought Christmas to our doorstep this morning in the form of a bang-on-time delivery man bearing a wonderful and necessarily early gift for her lonely parents - Christmas Dinner in a huge and heavy box:
Impressively insulated and beautifully packed was absolutely everything - ready cooked!
We quickly stashed it all away to the freezer drawer in the Fisher and Paykell BAAF*. We shall report on or soon after Christmas Day but it is already clear that we shall eat well at New Year and possibly Easter too!
*BAAF, for new viewers, Big Arsed American Fridge.
For a while now, in my capacity as FoSCL's media contact, I have been doing what I can to help a DVD production company with a new DVD about the Settle-Carlisle Railway. Yesterday the finished item arrived in the post so I settled down to view it on the BA75"TV (work it out for yourself) - all 1 hour 48 minutes of it. It is superb and will be a great addition to the dozens of S&C DVDs which have already been done of course. It reveals for the first time film of the line taken during the 1980s when closure threatened and besides showing that old film it explains matters S&C in a better way than I have ever seen before. That's fine of course but imagine my surprise and delight when the southbound story got to the end and this appeared among the credits:
Mark, thank you so much for another year of your entertaining & informative blog. One day I will get a ride on the S/C line ( I have seen the Ribblehead viaduct from below).
ReplyDeleteAll Best Wishes to you & your wife for a peaceful Christmas