modelbuilder Posted April 2, 2021 Report Share Posted April 2, 2021 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lebro Posted April 2, 2021 Report Share Posted April 2, 2021 So funny (even if the reality was not) Bob. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SuzanneH Posted April 2, 2021 Report Share Posted April 2, 2021 So true for us, although I don’t want to be likened or compared to Hitler. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RogerH Posted April 2, 2021 Report Share Posted April 2, 2021 I know how he feels (in this fictional world) aaarrrggghhhhhhh Roger Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stillp Posted April 2, 2021 Report Share Posted April 2, 2021 A day trip to Trago Mills! Lebensraum at its finest! Pete Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SuzanneH Posted April 2, 2021 Report Share Posted April 2, 2021 1 hour ago, stillp said: A day trip to Trago Mills! Lebensraum at its finest! Pete We have been past it on numerous occasions over very many years but we have never been inside as Roger won’t stop. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stillp Posted April 2, 2021 Report Share Posted April 2, 2021 It's worth a look Sue, but maybe not a day trip. Pete Quote Link to post Share on other sites
iain Posted April 2, 2021 Report Share Posted April 2, 2021 The only good thing at Trago......the fuel prices. Iain Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Misfit Posted April 2, 2021 Report Share Posted April 2, 2021 (edited) 5 hours ago, modelbuilder said: 1/ The last time people listened to him, well lets just say, perhaps his decision making was dubious to say the least. 2/ If you want to go to Trago Mills even Mr Robertson the original owner was bright enough to built his purpose built super store in Newton Abbot Devon with amusements, rides, trains ride, Garden centre and restaurants. Not the ramshackle place where if you are lucky you won’t loose yourself. I don’t know Iain shell fuel prices are good, but the carpet store, garden centre, builder merchants, bathroom, kitchen departments even the motor section and camping store aren’t bad, even reasonable priced. Edited April 2, 2021 by Misfit Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JohnG Posted April 3, 2021 Report Share Posted April 3, 2021 14 hours ago, stillp said: A day trip to Trago Mills! Lebensraum at its finest! Pete 11 hours ago, iain said: The only good thing at Trago......the fuel prices. Iain Leave Trago Mills alone! We first (or last, take your pick) went there when the kids were small, they are now in their 40's. They loved it, me . . . . . .not so much, but, it has decent (still free?) Parking and the kids could unwind for a while, so, what's not to like. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RogerH Posted April 3, 2021 Report Share Posted April 3, 2021 13 hours ago, SuzanneH said: We have been past it on numerous occasions over very many years but we have never been inside as Roger won’t stop. We did go inside the place in the late 70's early 80's whilst holidaying down there with Sue's parents. It was just a different type of B&Q. Didn't really want to buy a dustbin whilst on holiday. Roger Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stillp Posted April 3, 2021 Report Share Posted April 3, 2021 I did enjoy the miniature railway there. Pete Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ian Vincent Posted April 3, 2021 Report Share Posted April 3, 2021 15 hours ago, SuzanneH said: We have been past it on numerous occasions over very many years but we have never been inside as Roger won’t stop. Well at least he’s saved you wasting a couple of hours of your life. Rgds Ian Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ianc Posted April 3, 2021 Report Share Posted April 3, 2021 Our picnic table, bench and two chairs, all in decent thickness hardwood (not the rather spindly stuff one sees quite often), were purchased about 40 years ago at Trago and assembled by me when we returned home. All continue to serve us well, even though they look rather disgraceful and I haven't applied linseed oil for some 25 years. If one chooses carefully, Trago continues to offer competitive pricing on an enormous range of goods. Ian Cornish Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SuzanneH Posted April 3, 2021 Report Share Posted April 3, 2021 6 hours ago, Ian Vincent said: Well at least he’s saved you wasting a couple of hours of your life. Rgds Ian Yes, I do vaguely remember going there fleetingly but our son is 40 this month and this was the holiday he spent a lot of time travelling in the boot of our brand new Astra because my parents were with us.Our son would have been 4 or 5. I also seem to think it was on the same day that our windscreen broke and we were covered in particles of glass inside the car and had to wait for someone to come out and sort it somewhere near Lostwithiel. Perhaps the shock of the bang of the windscreen blowing put everything else out of my mind. I don’t think we knew Trago Mills had children’s amusements there, or perhaps that long ago it didn’t. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ian Vincent Posted April 3, 2021 Report Share Posted April 3, 2021 (edited) It depends on which Trago Mills you visited. The one near Newton Abbot has the amusement park, the one near Liskeard and the one in Falmouth don't. Rgds Ian Edited April 3, 2021 by Ian Vincent Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SuzanneH Posted April 3, 2021 Report Share Posted April 3, 2021 9 minutes ago, Ian Vincent said: It depends on which Trago Mills you visited. The one near Newton Abbot has the amusement park, the one near Liskeard and the one in Falmouth don't. Rgds Ian Ah OK I didn’t know there were more than one, I think we were at the one near Liskeard, thanks. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Misfit Posted April 4, 2021 Report Share Posted April 4, 2021 Suzanne unlike Iain I have found Trago a useful place, there isn’t much you can’t get there, Having first shopped there when most stock 47 years ago was bankrupt stock, purchased by Mr Robertson. I have refurbished properties with complete kitchens and bathrooms, tiles, wall paper and paint. White goods to wood burners. Purchased Equestrian tack, jackets and hats. Bought Mowers to garden sheds and plants. Camping equipment, Motor oils to car polish and as Iain said Shell fuel at low prices. I was paying a C/C bill and the Girl in Newcastle taking my payment said oh you buy stuff at Trago Mills, we have a coach trip organised to Newton Abbot to get our Christmas shopping, bringing the children they love the amusements and train ride there. It’s different now from the large sheds 47 years ago and bankrupt stock. But we’ll worth a visit that’s when they open fully very soon. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Charlie D Posted April 4, 2021 Report Share Posted April 4, 2021 16 hours ago, SuzanneH said: our son ... spent a lot of time travelling in the boot of our brand new Astra Did you hide him in there so you didn't have to pay his entrance fee to get into the amusement park? Charlie Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Crawfie Posted April 4, 2021 Report Share Posted April 4, 2021 You have to watch out for the peacocks . They tend to hide in the most weird places and then scare the **** out of you when you disturb them . My daughter hates the bloody things since she was chased by one many moons ago . .....it was hilarious !!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SuzanneH Posted April 4, 2021 Report Share Posted April 4, 2021 1 hour ago, Crawfie said: You have to watch out for the peacocks . They tend to hide in the most weird places and then scare the **** out of you when you disturb them . My daughter hates the bloody things since she was chased by one many moons ago . .....it was hilarious !!! We have white Peacocks at the bottom of our garden, well over the back fence. They used to walk on the roofs of the houses down there. On one very stormy night we woke up to two very bedraggled ordinary coloured young peacocks in our back garden. Rogers got a picture of them somewhere. They have just started calling again this year, a very sad lamenting sort of call. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Crawfie Posted April 4, 2021 Report Share Posted April 4, 2021 1 hour ago, SuzanneH said: We have white Peacocks at the bottom of our garden, well over the back fence. They used to walk on the roofs of the houses down there. On one very stormy night we woke up to two very bedraggled ordinary coloured young peacocks in our back garden. Rogers got a picture of them somewhere. They have just started calling again this year, a very sad lamenting sort of call. They don’t seem to have a “good press “ . The tail feathers of the male bird are supposed the bring bad luck . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SuzanneH Posted April 4, 2021 Report Share Posted April 4, 2021 (edited) 3 hours ago, Crawfie said: They don’t seem to have a “good press “ . The tail feathers of the male bird are supposed the bring bad luck . I have had a tail feather of a Peacock in our house for about 35 years. When I took my son to The Bunny Park in Hanwell West London ( under Brunel’s Wharncliffe Viaduct ) as a toddler, he kept chasing the Peacocks to try to get a tail feather, I think a park warden gave him a feather in the end and it’s been in a vase on top of a wall clock ever since. Like you my mother was horrified that we kept it in the house, I wouldn’t say I am not superstitious but a Peacocks feather doesn’t bother me at all. Edited April 4, 2021 by SuzanneH Quote Link to post Share on other sites
john.r.davies Posted April 4, 2021 Report Share Posted April 4, 2021 Very rakish! A neighbour used to keep peacocks, bloody noisy they were. One decided to come and live in our garden, and next door were all "Oooooooooh! Bird of lll Omen!" The bird then died, on their backdoor step! T'was the bird wwhich had bad luck, I fear! JOhn Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Misfit Posted April 4, 2021 Report Share Posted April 4, 2021 We had them in our garden they arrived and stayed for weeks when the head of the parish council turned up one morning and asked us to get rid off them. We stopped feeding them then one day they were gone. During the war my mother was in the land army and use to find eggs lying on the ground she would collect them and eat them. Until it was discovered they were peacocks eggs from the estate- Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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