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We did have this a while back. A bit less frenetic and more suitable for those with delicate hips.

Mmm, I'm having flashbacks now. My father once left a tube of Deep Heat in the bathroom here. It takes about an hour for my onboard systems to be fairly operational in the mornings and so I just used the tube that was where the toothpaste should be... I can still taste it.

You could end the bend a few inches earlier and then have long single bend to approach the points.

And, does it happen if you reverse one or other of the wagons?

Will beets be available in multi-packs? How many beets would you need for each wagon?

Well, the Jinty will also be back - via Mark's Models...

It seems to me that there's just no need for all this trauma. There's enough of 'us' and we have enough information between us, to just kidnap one of 'them'. Then, either :- If we have one that they actually want back, we trade him for the information we want. Or, if we find we've got one they're not that bothered about, then we should have enough bits of wood from old layouts to just beat it out of him. It just needs a little bit of organisation - and, maybe, some ear defenders.

F14s were a bit loud, and you would have to go to Iran to record one now.

Big Island = 209,000 km² and about 65,000,000 people. The Small Island that I was basically marooned on for five days is about 3 km² and around a thousand people. Getting into the local metropolis from here involved a voyage through the lake by the fuel station - it's only been happening for fifty years now, so people are still getting used to it.

I've been back on the Big Island for a few weeks and have been collecting "bits for things", mostly from eBay and via various delivery agents, including Royal Mail. Mostly, but not exclusivelly, small stuff. It has, however, been very noticeable just how quick* and efficient all of the various deliverers have been, compared to the chaotic lottery that used to go on. * Even during the recent flooding events, when I was essentially living on a very Small Island for five days.

Yes, the way it widens on the bend due to the separation of the wheel-tracks as they turn - excellent detail!

This looks easy enough. An end in sight for the 16.5/21mm dilemma? To be incorporated in all future IRM releases?

Lads, lads! Christmas is coming and this Ballybrophy coat is back on and currently at a mere £6:50. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/276107719505 She has to be worth that, and it'll do for her birthday, as well.

It could be a triple bluff - a Guinness DART.

The Moon Landing Hoax was actually started by NASA. Do you really think they haven't been going back there for the last fifty years? They are - A, Hiding the fact that they found an alien base there and have been in continuous contact with them ever since. Or. B, Building a base on the Far Side, so the Illuminati can escape there when the Earth becomes uninhabitable and the rest of us will all just be left to die down here. It's obvious, if people just think about it...

When I pointed that out, the "believers" assumed that it must be an innocent victim of a fire caused by an EV that had burned to the ground or been removed.

Back in the days of grain-of-wheat bulbs, they could get very hot, if run at the full 12V - I found a few scorch-marks from them, particularly in cardboard Metclafe-type buildings, and always made a point of ensuring that they were 'in the middle' of an air-space and not up against anything solid. And I once took apart an old steam model, to tart up its running a bit, only to find that it actually had a smoke unit installed - and there had clearly been a fairly exciting fire in the past, as the oil took light, although there was little visible damage externally. The materials used in the scenery of layouts are essentially a form of tinder, should anything happen...

Of the six, maybe eight, people who spoke to me about the Newbridge McDonald's fire, all of them believed that it was an electric vehicle.

All these things are 'evolutionary'. I can remember people who would 'never have a diesel car', because you couldn't rely on being able to find a petrol station that had diesel available. I also remember the range anxiety of going round Wales on a Sunday with a small fuel tank on a motorbike. In the early days of motoring, you had to get your petrol in glass jars from a chemist, if there was one that had any, and if it was open. I know people in England who do still manage to drive LPG cars, by being organised enough to do so. I also know people who would never cope with an electric car - their phone is always on one bar, if it works at all, and any journey with them driving starts by having to put some fuel in to be safe. Consumer behaviour and responses, and the investment decisions by multinational businessess (or cartels?) will define what finally happens - and it won't be 'one-size-fits-all'. Even if people choose not to believe in the climate effects, fossil fuels will not go on forever. Things will change and you need to keep an eye on the direction of things and your own circumstances, with a view to lining the two up to a reasonable extent. The fact that we can't provide a single solution overall tomorrow doesn't mean that there can't be various combined partial solutions in the future. Equally, the fact that we should be able to do something doesn't mean that we will, or that it will become available. A good example of the process is cordless tools - the early stuff was fairly lightweight stuff, only really for delicate jobs - these days, I hardly ever plug in a mains device. I remember telling a bloke I worked with in the 80s that I had just bought a cordless kettle (one that lifts off the mains-powered base, without the encumbrance of an attached lead). He refused to believe me - it took a while for him to explain that a cordless kettle was impossible, as the battery would need to be huge... Conveniently, I had a chat with someone yesterday, as she was driving a Hyundai Kona. I might, one day, look at having one, so I quizzed her about it. It was a hybrid, with a small battery under the boot floor, and a petrol engine for when that wasn't enough. She was very happy with it and I mentioned that I was more interested in the full electric version, as I've only ever been beyond 200 miles in one day in my current car in the last 13 years. She, as a fire prevention officer, with a 'mechanic husband', advised against that, due to the fire risk from the battery - despite having a smaller, but similar, battery in hers and a petrol tank...

You can get these things - - intended for sliding around the floor on, whilst working under a car. That might work, as long as you can still get down and back up from it...

A lot of the foreigners that I know are less liable to make spelling mistakes in English that the native monoglots are. Or to use 'liable' when they mean 'libel'. Etc.

When you can't just pick something up off the track to look underneath for a problem.