Christmas is only 8 weeks away, so it's time to make sure you get your Xmas orders sent to us in time! We'll get them all cast, packaged and shipped out in time for the big day!
So, if anyone is wanting any 10mm goodness to be waiting in their stockings this year, you will need to get your orders into us before:
| Pendraken |
| Ordering Deadline |
| UK | Fri 9th Dec |
| Europe | Wed 7th Dec |
| USA/Canada | Mon 5th Dec |
| Rest of the World | Thurs 1st Dec |
Don't forget, if you don't get your order in before these dates, then we cannot guarantee that it will be there in time for Christmas morning, so get them in as soon as possible!
8)
And just for info, if you're sending any packages yourself, these are the Royal Mail's official posting deadlines, NOT to be confused with our own deadlines above! #-o
| Royal Mail | |
| Posting Deadline |
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| UK 1st class | Wed 21st Dec |
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| Western Europe | Fri 16th Dec |
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| Eastern Europe | Wed 7th Dec |
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| USA & Canada | Thurs 15th Dec |
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| Rest of the World | Sat 10th Dec |
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More info on the Royal Mail website here: http://www.royalmail.com/greetings (http://www.royalmail.com/greetings)
:-bd
I know it's a bit early, 59 days to go, but I do hope thatthe Pendraken crew have planned a reasonable break for themselves. A few days to relax, enjoy family and forget about the baying loons of the forum (and yes, I include myself at the forefornt of that statement).
All the little casting dwarves will be excited, barely able to get to sleep, for they know that Father Pendrakenmas will teleport from his other realm, bringing them a cup of water and some bread that isn't stale, and on Pendrakenmas they're actually allowed to run about without the hobbles, and the ones that have been really, really good get to peek out of the door of the Caverns of Pendraken at the desolation of Middle Borough, so their little hearts rise knowing there are life forms lower than they are.
The Dark Lord will transmogrify into Father Pendrakenmas and move amongst the casting dwarves, Milady beaming at his side, the traditional Pendrakenmas Rickshaw being pulled by Dave. Father Pendrakenmas and Milady will throw small sweets and ball bearings at the casting dwarves, and everyone will laugh when someone breaks a tooth.
Then there's the cards. Every dwarf get a card stating what their role will be for the next year. The happy ones get sculptor dwarf, and the post room is very popular, but for some unlucky little people, there's the furnace - some as stokers, some (who have been very naughty) as fuel.
In the evening, there's a slap up meal of roast badger, with hedgehog and earthworm trimings. (Well what did you expect underground dwellers to eat?) Then the Dark Lord pipes in Milady, and everyone gets a bit embarrassed*, and Dave brings in the Pendrakenmas Pudding. This year, it's Westmarcher.
Altogether, a happy, traditional day in the Pendraken Caverns. Dark Lord bless us, every one.
*The Dark Lord has many great qualities but musicality isn't one of them. He thinks Kanye West is music. He owns the entire discography of Little Mix. He has been trying to play the bagpipes for 342 years and still doesn't really know his chanter from his drone. Why - what were you thinking?
BAHHH HUMBUGGG For the first time this year.
IanS
Bah Humbugs may be purchased at the Little Dorritt Sweet Shop, Copper Nob Lane, Upper Crackfield.
It's still OCTOBER :'(
They put the street light decorations up in my village last night... :o :'( =)
Really! :o
Christmas should not begin until 1st December.
NO - starts at 24.00 on 24/12, finishes @ 24.00 on 25 :'(/12, and I'm being generous. :'( :'( :'(
To be completely fair to my local council, they put the lights up in October, but don't light them up until mid-November. They test them a couple of times between.
But, still... Christmas lights in October...
I have tried - without success - to escape Christmas by spending it in India, Thailand, and Japan. No good. Maybe North Korea?
Christmas: Christmas Eve to Epiphany
If you must celebrate an imaginary event at least do it properly!
Although I agree with Lemmy's October sentiments, I really think Ian should get into the spirit of the twelve days of Christmas. There's feck all daylight at that time of year to do much else other than party.
Quote from: Leman on 27 October 2016, 02:13:45 PM
Although I agree with Lemmy's October sentiments, I really think Ian should get into the spirit of the twelve days of Christmas. There's feck all daylight at that time of year to do much else other than party.
All Hail, Sol Invictus! :)
Every civilised person knows the important date at that time of the year is New Year's Eve!
Good to see you're all getting into the festive spirit!
:D
*engage sarcasm circuit*
<:-P
*disengaging sarcasm circuit*
Quote from: Leon on 27 October 2016, 04:18:45 PM
Good to see you're all getting into the festive spirit!
:D
I hope everyone has their sprouts simmering away, by now.
Mmmmmm....Tasty.
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: mad lemmey on 27 October 2016, 08:49:45 AM
It's still OCTOBER :'(
Be grateful you are not in the Philippines, Christmas starts 1
st September and I mean home decorations and carollers started
It runs until Epiphany, with short breaks for All Saints & All Souls days and New Years eve
Quote from: Techno on 27 October 2016, 07:14:38 PM
I hope everyone has their sprouts simmering away, by now.
I have heated seats in my car if that counts... The heater goes to 5... never tried it beyond 3...
Quote from: Techno on 27 October 2016, 07:14:38 PM
I hope everyone has their sprouts simmering away, by now.
Mmmmmm....Tasty.
Cheers - Phil
Have you decided which of your animals you are going to eat this Christmas :D
Quote from: Orcs on 13 November 2016, 07:04:26 PM
Have you decided which of your animals you are going to eat this Christmas :D
Usually the one who doesn't get in the barn when he yells at the flock.
That'll teach the disobedient bugger ;D ;D ;D
Quote from: Orcs on 13 November 2016, 07:04:26 PM
Have you decided which of your animals you are going to eat this Christmas :D
There's still a
massive chunk of beef, we were given recently, still sitting in the freezer*.....I think the animals can regard them selves as safe. :P ;)
(*I wish I'd cut it up into steaks before it went in there.)
Cheers - Phil
I have one word for you - chainsaw. :D
Most butchers have a meat saw, like a band saw
Perhaps if you ask nicely... ;)
Make sure you ask them to do it, not to borrow the saw :-S
fsn - blowing the soot from the exhaust pipes of his diesel powered Linotype, taking a first, tentative sniff of model airplane glue ( best grade) and flexing those parts of his body that defy discription. All this while squinting at the lambs and Komondor as they frolic on the blasted plaines of Runcorn. The Yule Magum Opus is at hand and all's right with the world!
Quote from: d_Guy on 13 November 2016, 11:52:15 PM
I have one word for you - chainsaw. :D
Maybe not. ;D ;D ;D ;D
Quote from: paulr on 14 November 2016, 01:12:28 AM
Most butchers have a meat saw, like a band saw
Perhaps if you ask nicely... ;)
Make sure you ask them to do it, not to borrow the saw :-S
That's a good thought Paul. :)...Though we do own a circular chop-saw. (Unsurprisingly, I'm not allowed to use that...even under supervision.)
Stupidly.......My initial thought, when we were given this large chunk of meat was to freeze it.....thaw it....cut it...then freeze it again, until it was pointed out to me that that wasn't a very good idea, unless I wanted to eventually give myself food poisoning. =)
It's
way too big to thaw..... then cook in the oven for a single meal, (we'd be eating beef sandwiches for weeks....or until we got food poisoning...again) which is why I plonked it in the freezer in the first place......I'm not wasting it on the dogs. ;)
Cheers - Phil
Forget Christmas, I'm counting down the days until Salute where I can pick up some toys in person :D :D
Cheers
Ian
Quote from: d_Guy on 14 November 2016, 02:01:02 AM
fsn - blowing the soot from the exhaust pipes of his diesel powered Linotype, taking a first, tentative sniff of model airplane glue ( best grade) and flexing those parts of his body that defy discription. All this while squinting at the lambs and Komondor as they frolic on the blasted plaines of Runcorn. The Yule Magum Opus is at hand and all's right with the world!
Ah! 'tis but partially true. I usually don't know what I'm going to write until I write it. Also, since the accidental release of a "probably not harmful" agent by ICI in 1981, sheep in the Runcorn area have turned both carniverous and sociopathic. They have an odd way of force feeding Komondors with mint before devouring them. They also shave themselves so from a distance they resemble giant poodles then - snap - you're a lamb dinner!
Quote from: d_Guy on 13 November 2016, 11:52:15 PM
I have one word for you - chainsaw. :D
NOT until the Aztecs are safely delivered to Krung Thep.
Don't worry about the chainsaw......I was far too close to falling backwards onto a kitchen knife, and stabbing myself in the kidneys, a couple of nights ago.
JUST had time to stop myself breaking my fall with my left hand, which was holding said knife.
(Shouldn't have been using a knife to help re-set the boiler...and I shouldn't have been squatting down in front of the boiler with a pair of very loose slippers on.....Nearly big OOPS !)
Cheers - Got away with it again.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 14 November 2016, 09:55:47 AM
NOT until the Aztecs are safely delivered to Krung Thep.
+1 - with a parcel to the backwoods also.
Quote from: fsn on 14 November 2016, 07:55:52 AM
... Also, since the accidental release of a "probably not harmful" agent by ICI in 1981, sheep in the Runcorn area have turned both carniverous and sociopathic.
Ah! That explains the here-to-for indecipherable Runcornian flag. It with its belchs of cloud, large psychotic eyes and what appears to be a mugging occurring in the background. Still working on a translation of the motto, however.
Ah! The Runcorn motto can be translated as "Yesterday's Tomorrow: Today", or "cash and valuables in the bag". There is a school of thought that says it should be "Don't feed the sheep". Certainly up to 1964 the byline was "Don't Worry About the Yellow Clouds", with the unspoke corrolary of "but beware the Green ones."
Quote from: Techno on 13 November 2016, 07:46:19 PM
There's still a massive chunk of beef, we were given recently, still sitting in the freezer*.....I think the animals can regard them selves as safe. :P ;)
(*I wish I'd cut it up into steaks before it went in there.)
Cheers - Phil
Its beef, so you should be able to defrost it once and slice it up then refreeze it without too much trouble. A quick search on Google says if you defrost in a refrigerator and refreeze it should not cause any problems.
To be safe you could test it on the MIL first
Quote from: Orcs on 14 November 2016, 03:19:17 PM
To be safe you could test it on the MIL first
Oh, don't, Mark X_X......It's almost impossible to get her to eat
anything, at the moment.
She barely eats enough to keep a sparrow alive.
(Though she
claims she is...... We're not sure whether she's telling porkies..("I've cooked myself two eggs today.")......or whether she's just so confused, she doesn't know WHEN she's eaten anything. :()
If we didn't cook her
something each evening.......
We're not sure if her thyroid has gone completely, ar*e about face...Or whether she's taking all her pills properly anymore.
Von's taken her down to the Doc's again this afto', for another blood test.....And see how much MORE weight she's lost.
Cheers - Phil.
Quote from: fsn on 14 November 2016, 12:50:10 PM
Ah! The Runcorn motto can be translated as "Yesterday's Tomorrow: Today", or "cash and valuables in the bag".
Yes, while it was mostly clear that it was in the emphatic form using an implied verb, the accent mark in the fourth syllable of the third word was problematic. If pronounced with a sudden intake of air (as one does when one falls on the frame of one's bike) it implies the passage of time, BUT if pronounced with a rapid expulsion of air (as one does when hit in the abdomen with a bat) it implies the transfer of goods.
Yours is certainly the best rendering of the possibilities that I have seen - including, of course, Wikipedia. Thanks!
Always good to get the straight doe from a native speaker. :-bd
Sorry, where did the plot go? ;D
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/IMG_1188_zpstycyztrs.jpg) (http://s214.photobucket.com/user/madlemmey/media/IMG_1188_zpstycyztrs.jpg.html)
Plot - WHAT PLOT ???
IanS
And it's S. McQueen on a motorbike in the Barbled wire ;)
Gosh! That sounds like a new version of Cludeo! ("Clue" for our American cousins.)
My turn!
Arnold Schw...gger - squashed by a big metal press thing.
Alien Q Alien - blasted out the shuttle and incinerated by the rockets!
Isn't this fun!
Bambi's Mother ... :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
:-\
Have to have a really good think about this one.
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: fsn on 21 November 2016, 08:06:18 AM
Gosh! That sounds like a new version of Cludeo! ("Clue" for our American cousins.
Thanks! Saved yet another trip to Wikipedia. :)
Is that pronounced:
Clu-de-o as in rodeo, Clue-due as in Zulu, or See-lude-o, like the naughty magazine published at the turn of the last century?
Klu-Dough
(and as Techno rightly points out, it's Cluedo - which somehow I read despite it not being written...)
I think Nobby's spelt it wrong....
Isn't it Cluedo ?......Not Cludeo. ?
Cheers - Phil
Only 24 hours to go for UK people, get your orders sent through by midnight on Friday otherwise we can't guarantee them for the big day!
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In, processed and paid by paypal tonight !
Quote from: Sunray on 08 December 2016, 08:06:03 PM
In, processed and paid by paypal tonight !
And arrived this morning! 1960s era unit Irish Guards to be painted up by Christmas. Helmets and berets (para figures with Khaki lids)
Many thanks Dave & Leon.
Quote from: Sunray on 12 December 2016, 10:30:13 AM
And arrived this morning! 1960s era unit Irish Guards to be painted up by Christmas. Helmets and berets (para figures with Khaki lids)
Many thanks Dave & Leon.
:-bd