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Funny, magazine with postage was £8.50. It was the first month of a yearly subscription - I have cancelled the sub now, as I do not want to be paying €5 extra every month!

Sounds like a Brexit bonus to me! I got charged €5 extra on a magazine coming from the UK yesterday

I'd say commuters who use the line would take a 1 in 100 year flood risk to the current 1 in 1 year flood risk!

You would think raising the embankment, with a few large culverts to allow water to pass from one side to another would sort it out?

My brother picked up a couple of packs of modelling clay in Mr. Price for the kids to make stuff with - it could be pressed into service on a model railway I reckon

^^Exactly this^^ China don't see IP as a thing from what I have heard before.

Yep, I get the IP thing. Legally going after anyone but the factory selling these unofficial models is a waste of time

Except it is a copy - Paddy still has the full order he placed with the manufacturer. Press charges against the factory owner, not the people buying locos from Ebay - sure how are they to know anyway? Same as going after the drug dealers instead of the users/addicts I get the whole Intellectual Property (IP) thing - the factory are the ones running off extra copies to sell themselves, taking all the profit. This is who should be charged. Example - One of your relations knows you are into modelling Irish railways. As a present, they want to get you a model loco. Seeing them sold out on the Irish shops, they go to Ebay, and lo and behold, there's Irish locos for sale. They purchase one from the Chinese seller - should they be charged with handling stolen property? Should you if you received it from your aunt/uncle whatever? Daft...

Prosecuting someone for 'handling stolen property' is a bit of a dick move on his part IMO

Different gauge? Sure they might as well make it a bloody monorail in that case... SMH

One in the original grey livery on Adverts at the mo: https://www.adverts.ie/models/murphy-models-class-121-oo-gauge-model-mint-condition/32723266

You're not the only fan of a checkerboard pattern! https://www.rockarchive.com/prints/s/specials-the-spec001jf

I must get the finger out & do something like that myself, as I have no layout & a small shelf one would be good for practicing scenery techniques, etc...

I was going to say 'wheels'

Works are scheduled to take 12 weeks as far as I know, so yes, I'd say so!