Broithe

Today's inspection tour revealed little new to report. These nice road/rail vehicles were parked up. The branch sleepers are looking quite Olde Worlde. 219 pushed through whilst I was there. The bees are still on duty. Some of the details are quite ecclesiastical - or ecumenical.

Downforce on the driving wheels will help, either by adding weight on them or by using https://www.dccconcepts.com/product/powerbase-mini-magnet-pack-x24-smaller-magnets/ - to add force without adding (much) weight.

Based on the viewpoint of some of those pictures, Father Browne seems to have had a drone.

Surely a 4-0-0..?

That is quite an Assumption. @Admin will be along shortly to bring this religious discussion to an end - although it might resurrect in three days...

We might need to draw a veil over this.

Heritage railways can be habit forming.

If anybody's going, this might be of interest.

Holes are in the same location...

I think we might need to consider what people overhearing us discuss a "42 foot sample" might misconstrue.....

If driving a convertible towards a tunnel on a warm day, with the roof down, check the mirror on approach for high vehicles behind you...

Have you dyed your hair?

Interesting, but maybe not applicable to areas with pedestrians or cyclists.

Whoops, that should have said "Heritage Week" - before I get any letters from a local hotel's lawyers....

I did suspect backhanders when I saw that this 'spontaneous' event was taking place in Heritage

This post originally had an embedded tweet, with a picture showing a coach trapped in the Lansdowne Road crossing, which seems to have been deleted, possibly on legal advice?

I think an ambulance might be more useful...

Well, if the Guards stop you and ask "Have you any tax on this car?", you can say "No, but I've had a couple of screws on the back seat". Come on, tax = tacks. It works better if you get somebody to read it to you.....

Hopefully, the imminent model will have both options.

Perhaps it was meant to be a Celtic train?

I'd never noticed the split smokebox door before.

In the UK, the threshold for tax being due on items from outside the EU is currently £15. Upwards from there, you are liable to 20% VAT, which is sort of OK. However, Royal Mail will also charge you a fee for handling the payment on your behalf, this is a flat rate fee of £8. Thus, an item worth £14.99 will arrive 'free' after you pay the vendor a total of £14.99 for it. An item judged to be worth £15 on arrival will cost you a total of £26 ( 26 = 15 + 3 + 8 ) - and be subject to a sometimes considerable delay. Buying an item close to the threshold has an element of risk - the 'value on arrival' is not within your control, it is down to an assessment made on 'your behalf' at the time of arrival - you may even have a receipt for an actual payment below £15, but a further slide of the pound during transit can tip you over into being liable to the Royal Mail ransom + VAT. Paying for something with 'free postage' can add to your woes, if the vendor then declares the total to be the value of the item - much better to have the item value and postage as separate amounts. The threshold issue may not be such a problem in the model railway world, but it does cause some trepidation around CDs, DVDs, etc.

This - http://www.anbrico.org/history.htm - suggests that there is still a market for them.

Three of the four have been sentenced - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-49397838 Before you ask, this is what a Referral Order is - https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/322209/fact-sheet-youth-referral-orders.pdf

Run out of 7s, found a spare 2...?