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It is easy for everybody to become 'tarred with the same brush' - maybe run the two markets separately, in a manner appropriate to each, until people on the big island get the hang of how you're doing it? You have the means to do that in place. Most of 'them' will take little interest in what you're doing for 'us', especially if it is an effectively separate operation. Sometimes, I suspect, the issue for the "big players" can have been, perhaps, to preempt announcements by the "other side" and, thus, queer their pitch, so to speak - who knows?

Indeed, maybe just an update whenever a stage is completed? i wouldn't expect a full running commentary, though a webcam in the office would allow us to see that progress was being made..

And it gives us the opportunity to supervise/moan continuously in order to pass the time whilst we wait...

Do they come in tiny drums?

I'm all for knowing what is going on. We are all aware that things don't always go to plan, or even, sometimes, come to fruition at all in the end - but, having an idea of what may well be coming up is surely helpful to most people. Maybe a little chart-thing, as Hattons do in their adverts, showing stage progress? If people don't want to know, they can always "look away now", as we used to have to do before so much sport was on live...

White, Strong, Flexible. Frosted, Ultra Detail.

Starting early was a good idea, you seem to be beginning to get the hang of it now

There's a clue in the phrase "north of London"...

There was a lot of trumpet-blowing at the time - some of us can remember when it was going to be possible to go from Stafford to Avignon on a Saturday, and have about three hours there before coming back. It got as far as printed timetables before it was abandoned.

In most of the videos, etc., people sound Belgian, but hint at the location being in Northern France - nobody seems keen on revealing exactly where.

Another full-scale landscaping issue. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-42791614 A bit too much water in the mix?

The current trade attendees at the upcoming Stafford exhibition are at the bottom of this - http://www.staffordrailwaycircle.org.uk/exhibition/ - I'm not sure if any are baseboard providers, but I can't remember seeing one there in the past, though it is quite possible that there was.

Quite often, it looks like they've "only just caught the bridge" - I wonder if people rely on the stated bridge height clearance being a little pessimistic.

It's worth looking at Stafford - quite big, but still fairly civilised, not the scrum of Warley - reasonably central and gets good crowds - around the first weekend of February every year. Short notice for this year? @Mike 84C has been, a couple of years ago, if you want another opinion. If you need a hand there, I'm a couple of miles away.

Yet another...

They seem to be on about pinching something - possibly a stack of boxes from somewhere in Dublin?

It looks to me that Hattons will sell it to you for £72 + £4 carriage to the North - for wooden sleeper track.

In the 70s, I used to go from Stafford to Lincoln on the train - cycling to Uttoxeter saved over an hour on the journey, and a third of the ticket price.

I think it's actually near the Russian sauna in Navan - that's him in the top picture here. https://www.facebook.com/rrsauna/?rf=296432527114579

Thinking about it, you might bump into Vlad before I do..

I'll see what I can co. Whilst discussing aerodynamic braking with somebody, I found this supreme example of the technique from an Il 76 in Malta - perhaps the cost of the brake shoes comes out of his wages?

And back again. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42691337

At least they're not scrapped - yet.

I came across this video this morning.

Up on RTÉ-player now, even for those in the outside world. https://www.rte.ie/player/gb/show/nationwide-21/10826418/