I am joining with Elephant's Childnull, RiverRiver and others for Sunday selections. Most of the photos this week aren't mine and you will note a vehicles on steel tracks theme. (I see linking hasn't been fixed. I wonder how it will appear when published)
Immediately I recognised this vehicle, located in the US. Do you know it? Its common name too.
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Photos from Shorpy.com . It's cold wherever these train are in the US.
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This one is so cold its nose is dribbling and the dribble has frozen.
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What a marvellous looking train, which I seem to remember ran down a street in New York City.
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This is a long one but oddly there is only one engine towing. I would guess there is also one at the rear pushing.
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More photos from different floors in our building. I don't know which park this is but it seems spot on for the 1st of June, the official start of our winter.
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Looking past the fountain at the National Gallery of Victoria to theatre building with rather odd lighting.
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One Christmas Hippie Niece and the father of her twins phoned a few years ago and asked what they could buy us as a Christmas gift. We said, a set of six steak knives. Instead we received the canteen of cutlery. Go figure! We subsequently bought out own steak knives and the cutlery set was never used.
What I did discover is that the nicer looking unused set weighed half the weight of our regular set, so the regular set is staying. So that, along with a full set of ornate silver plated cutlery, not used for a couple of decades, are both going to the charity shop.
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The spare room wardrobe was overdue a clean out. I took old board games, jigsaws and a few other bits to the charity shop, but the shop didn't want the Christmas tree as they didn't have storage space. Another might. Some months ago I cleaned out my own wardrobe. There is only the huge job of tackling Ray's wardrobe and drawers left. I want to complete most of this before the painting and recarpeting starts.
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The links work - null (should I be offended) takes me to my blog and River's link to hers.
ReplyDeleteLove the frozen dribbles.
Good luck on sorting before the painting and carpeting.
EC, the links are a queer thing and not really fixable by a blogger. So many things could be sold online to make money but I don't have the wherewithal.
DeleteMy links didn't work last week but now they do. A Blogger glitch. Love the railroad stuff and goodonya for the cleanout. Always hard. I have a fair ways to go still with that.
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WWW, in a way I can't wait to look at Ray's papers he has stored. I think he has letters from his mother among a lot of other written stuff and documents that will be interesting.
DeleteThese train photos are looking fabulous. Happy Sunday
ReplyDeleteRoentare, for the time when they were taken, they are of amazing quality.
DeleteI'll have to share these photos with my husband. We're both fans of trains but he actually picked out train themed wallpaper for his childhood bedroom. :D Best wishes on all your endeavors.
ReplyDeleteDarla, there is avalanche of old train photos on the internet, but these are high quality photos.
DeleteIndeed! :)
DeleteThe kiosk at the end of St Kilda Pier used to be such fun for the whole family. It may be more elegant now.
ReplyDeleteHels, I am not sure about more elegant, but certainly more modern, and practical. I will visit it again once the pier renewal has been completed.
DeleteI love the idea of you stopping at each floor to take photos of the pictures on the walls!
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean about light cutlery. It needs to have some substance behind it.
Your decluttering is coming along well. Be gentle with yourself when you do Ray's things.
Merlot, I haven't done that yet. There are two photos each floor, we use our level and 2 for the carpark, 3 for the gym, haha. Yes, the new cutlery felt cheap when I picked it up.
DeleteThat New York trail looks like end to end dozens of airstream trailers hooked together.
ReplyDeleteI see your point Strayer. The engine really gets me.
DeleteI like a bit of weight to my cutlery too. I remember spending almost an hour in a department store holding knives and spoons from each set on display to find the set that felt most comfortable in my hand. I've had that set 14 years now.
ReplyDeleteI don't like that train you call "marvellous" it looks faceless to me. A bit like an earthworm, where you can't tell one end from the other. Haven't a clue about that first picture, what is that?
River, yes once you get the right cutlery, you can use it for life. That the train is faceless is why I like it. It's so different. I won't say about the first photo until the English wake from their slumbers and they will answer the question.
DeleteGoodness what a very long train, sees like the trainline people followed a snake.
ReplyDeleteAmazing photos of the trains and your imagination Andrew.
Cutlery sets, we have one with the ends of the handle's 'round', pointy ones can stick into the palm of your hand.
Margaret, yes snaking its way along a hillside, not having to climb a hill too steep. I remember we had cutlery that we didn't like for the very reason you mention. I had forgotten about that. Our daily set has rounded handles.
DeleteI have no idea that first picture is. A stretch limo train?
ReplyDeleteKirk, simply no.
DeleteThat immensely long train snaking along the track is impressive.
ReplyDeleteJB, we have mining trains in the outback here to take dug up stuffs to port, and they can be a kilometre long, say .6 of a mile. Most people will never see them.
DeleteCool trains I love train trips The nicest ones were the steam train trips and the train from Christchurch to Greymouth here in NZ because of the scenery. I have a cleanout every year and a box goes to the salvation army.
ReplyDeleteMarja, it is a regret in my life that I never travelled on your Trans Alpine train. The trip south from Dunedin to Taieri Gorge was brilliant. The trip north from Christchurch is good too.
DeleteDid I miss that before? If not, I like how you snuck in at the end that you've decided to go ahead with the painting and recarpeting.
ReplyDeleteMC, I don't remember if I said it or not, but its been half paid for and I am in about four or so weeks. I am scared about it, but I will cope, and I hope the end result is good. You never know, maybe someone else will see the end result.
DeleteI am still trying to give away some silver plate, it was my great grandmothers and I can't find a family member who will take it in. No one want to polish it.
ReplyDeleteTP, I don't blame them.
DeleteI have so much silverplate from my mother and it never gets used . It is all black and I should really clean it before giving it to a charity shop.
ReplyDeleteOne day at a time as they say, Andrew.
Glad that you are doing the redecorating.
You may as well Pat. Those treatments where you put a chemical in water, soak, then rinse and dry off work well enough.
DeleteI think charity shops often frown on Christmas trees. They're a hard sell -- apparently no one wants a used Christmas tree.
ReplyDeleteSteve, I will try somewhere else, otherwise bin it.
DeleteI’ve apologised on the blog for my lack of support over the last month
ReplyDeleteAnd I’ve emailed u too
I know only too well the emotional pull,of going to charity shops with goods one person in your life loved once
Yes John, I am sure you do know. I suppose it is just part of moving on.
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