DJ Dangerous

It would be blasphemy to put anything other than a transparent roof on that shed! Clear corrugated plastic panel roof!

Not a bad price considering what some 141's go for: https://touch.adverts.ie/toy-cars-trains-boats-planes/murphy-models-class-181/28694941

Saw this box earlier. Something odd about the dimensions, dunno what it was. And who the Hell is poor old Arie van Donge?

I don't think that there IS such a thing as a challenge for @murphaph. One of his boxes somehow made its way down here...

More commissions coming in 2023! Yes, the holy grail, two-tone green!

Tinnelly truck, don't see these too often! https://www.ebay.es/itm/334673986633

Nothing was ever really to scale as I wasn't academic enough to be reading the instructions, would just mash some stuff together. Used to steal my Dad's camera from time to time, hence there are some photos in existance!

Just going through this thread on the computer now. Usually do so on the mobile, and I have to say, @murphaph's work is just mind-blowing. I didn't fully appreciate the quality of his workmanship while viewing the thread on the mobile, but seeing these pictures up close is something else. Absolutely outstanding work, these 111's have to be some of the best 071 re-sprays out there!

Ah come on, Lego is still awesome. Look at these random sets of blocks - no instructions necessary! https://www.ebay.es/itm/284522956871 https://www.ebay.es/itm/295282884577 https://www.ebay.es/itm/295432007487 And when I was a kid, I'd have killed for something like these two: https://www.ebay.es/itm/175429479716 Without them, nothing that I made actually floated. I guess if we'd had blue carpet, it might have helped...

Not a container but nice nonetheless, an old school TITSA bus!

Hope you have Superquinn sausages and Tayto crisps in stock, with some Club Orange to wash them down!

Wow! FOUR blue boxes outside Decathlon in La Laguna today! All proper palletwide boxes, too, none of this namby pamby narrow-gauge container nonsense.

Ah, no, don't tell me that they've come into stock and gone back out of stock already? I must have been waaaaaaaay down the subscribe list as I never received an in-stock email.

I have no body parts left to trade. Couldn't smoke or drink if I wanted as there are no spares available. I wouldn't worry about that too much unless you're prepared to pay the extra. Gougers like @evankelly260996only keep doing it because people keep paying.

A couple of Ian Hayes truck on eBay: https://www.ebay.es/itm/234815824257 https://www.ebay.es/itm/393176168021 https://www.ebay.es/itm/234633724253 https://www.ebay.es/itm/144787483658 https://www.ebay.es/itm/314180973112

LOL, 20 degrees isn't that frosty! Maybe @ttc0169will start having open days and sell the admission tickets here on the forum!

I wouldn't worry too much about this particular run, unless you're a specialist collector. IRM have proven that they will re-run items again every couple of years, with new running numbers where possible. We'll see NIR Mk2B/C packs hir the shelves again when the 22000's arrive, or I'll eat my hat. Meantime, as @murphaphhas said, Chris Dyer will have some, and I'm sure that @BosKonaysaid somewhere (there are three threads on this topic now so it's a bit messy tracking down information for quotes) that retailers (ie Marks Models or Rails or whoever) will have these if they pre-ordered. I know a man named @WRENNEIREwho always seems to have lovely nuggets like these for sale. And, @Warbonnetsaid "next" chapter, not the last chapter, so you can expect Class 80's, Dutch vans, limited run BR livery Irish coaches and product re-runs galore.

Older photos, 20th July 2020, a month or two after lockdown (here) ended and the pandemic was over for us. A P&O NedLloyd box (PONU-7348565) by the golf course in Adeje. A retired 12,2m (40') long, 2,4m (8') wide and 2,9m (9'6") tall HC drybox by the look of it.

Variations on a theme meaning specific tooling not required, so the bowling ball 22000's are not reckless and feckless? But the blue Taras with G1 lids, the NIR generators and driving trailers, the 22000 shunter (and catering trolley???) and the 2023 steam project are? Just to be clear, that's all.

If anything, I'd say they're even more reckless and feckless... The blue Taras were a bold move, too old for the modern "rake" crowd and too rake-ish for the older "mixed" crowd... NIR Mk2B generator in a livery (GBW) that only lasted 3 years tops... 22000's in liveries that were very short-lived, even that little shunter thing that goes 4mph... And steam on the way next year! That has to be a big gamble, probably the biggest yet.

Tragic. I'm in tears here.

Social media is what you make it. If you wade through the sludge, then you smother yourself in poop. But, that's a choice, your choice. At this very moment in time, I've just used our Facebook page to take a booking from guests looking to arrive tomorrow. They wrote via one of our advertising platforms, and couldn't make the payment due to card problems. The platforms block all forms of subterfuge, email addresses, phone numbers, urls etc, to protect their income and to protect their clients. I was able to tell our guest how to find us on Facebook without having my message blocked, they found us, made contact, paid by bank transfer after seeing our credentials, so they win and we win. I wasn't subject to anything bad in the process, didn't see anything racist or extremist, and that booking would not have happened without social networking. I will confess that in general, I don't use FB. I often stay logged off for so many months that I can't remember my password and have to look it up. I imagine that it's boring, very boring, if you're online going through other people's stuff, but if you are using it for a specific purpose - a model railway group, accepting holiday bookings, re-homing animals, it's a useful and powerful tool. Where it frustrates me, personally, is when somebody says that something is "on Facebook"... They might as well just say "It's somewhere on the internet" if they're not gonna provide a url to the resource. Likewise, the expensive resin bus models that only get released "on facebook" ... How the Hell is anybody supposed to get themselves one with something so vague? A url, a date, a time and a name make a big difference.

Short memories... Fifteen years ago, pre-Bebo, pre-MySpace and pre-Facebook, it was only fora and chat-rooms!

Yup, and one that you now know about thanks to @Westcorkrailway, and can actually find thanks to the url. You're welcome.

Useful for anybody who IS on FB, and for anybody who knows somebody on FB.