Broithe

A friend of mine has just been to Liverpool - this is the café at the Tate gallery - done in a Peter Blake Dazzle Ships style.

Safety Nut is genius - he's clearly worked/suffered under Network Rail His Vision On spoof is genius...

When this building..... ...was being built, I saw a chap, wearing a full-harness and with a fall-arrest lanyard attached, walking along the ridge. In an effort to avoid tripping on the trailing lanyard, he was holding the hook as high as he could - although, this did make it look like he was hoping that the hook might stay there if he fell... He survived his journey and got back into the building before I could access my camera. Having no fear of heights does make you less likely to fall, I suppose, but some people take it a bit far.

There can be a lot of pretentiousness in H&S. I am all for both health and safety and any real progress is to be applauded. I worked in a high voltage industry and could be subjected to both extremes of the pretentious side of H&S. I once came back to the office for a cup of tea, having just tested a circuit breaker at 500kV in the open air, in a test area whose interlocks had never worked in the twenty years that I was there - we used to hope that people knew that the hum really did mean instant death and some of us used to wedge chairs under the door handles, as an extra precaution. When I got back to the office (having not killed and set fire to anybody), I was told that I couldn't use the kettle because it hadn't been PAT-tested. Eventually, the Health & Safety Executive could stand it no longer and insisted it be fixed - "We'll install a permit system", they were told, and the HSE agreed to that. Some days later, I wanted to test another item and asked for my permit. I was told that I didn't need it - I asked who else had permits, as I wanted some help with some parts of the test - "Everybody that works here has a permit", I was told, "they're all in a drawer in Personnel." As far as I know, it was never fixed..... I also got electrocuted in a substation, having asked the chap that was putting all the various different coloured cones and flags out "Is everything off?" - "Yes!", he told me - I got a belt off the first very first thing I touched and fell six feet onto the gravel. "You must have touched the heater, we always leave the heaters on" I told him that I would ask him again in five minutes "Is everything off?" and, if he lied to me again, then he'd better hope that it killed me next time, or I would kill him, using as many of his special cones as I could fit in.

Mmmm - madness, more like.... I'm assuming we didn't have the depth charges, hedgehog, etc..?

01 for now.... What sort of lights would she have shown at night? Don't fancy anybody driving into her, if I ever finish her...

I succumbed and bought a Revell Flower Class Corvette today - one day it may eventually look something like this...

http://www.7mmnga.org.uk/NLE06.php

Imagine what Beeching would have done.....

Great stuff. Will you have the area to create space should Operation Stack stretch that far..?

The history of the East Coast privatisations in the UK might give people some pause for thought. http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/virgin-takes-over-the-east-coast-main-line-10078107.html

HMS M33 is restored in Portsmouth. Open to the public shortly. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33780102

So much for your advice - this is what I got searching for further info on Saab models.

OK, OK, so I clicked on the wrong thing - but, I didn't want negative feedback, so I had to buy it... ..lucky it's still summer..

Here we are - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BACHMANN-SCENECRAFT-OO-44-251-IRISH-STONE-SINGLE-ROAD-ENGINE-SHED-RARE-ITEM-/281764382974?hash=item419a7748fe . ...but, this one's cheaper - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bachmann-Scenecraft-Stone-Engine-Shed-44-062-/141731751263?hash=item20ffdee55f . Anyway, purple's not my colour....

Ah - that was meant for the other post - I'll be back in a minute....

Some of my old eBay searches have just resurrected themselves and started alerting me again - I've just had one that searched for "Lima 201" - it has just suggested this to me - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BNWT-NET-A-PORTER-201-MELISSA-ODABASH-LIMA-EMBELLISHED-BIKINI-SIZE-UK-14-BNWT-/261992957366? - but, it might be a bit tight. "Murphy Models" also produces a good few pictures of model Carolyn Murphy. I am considering changing my allegiance to railways of the Baltic states, so that I can justify a search for "Swedish Models"....

This engine shed has just appeared on eBay - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BNWT-NET-A-PORTER-201-MELISSA-ODABASH-LIMA-EMBELLISHED-BIKINI-SIZE-UK-14-BNWT-/261992957366?

It says "Out of stock" - they've been that price for a good while - I've got a pair here.... ..but, I did see some on the shelf there not long ago, might be worth asking the Train Man..

Of course, the nationalised British Railways even had its own specific banker at one time...

No injuries - but a bit of a mess. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-33751105

The privatisation of British Rail had little input from the EU, as I remember it - it was very much a home-grown policy.

I could smell it. Or, completely believable - it amounts to the same thing. Where do you go from here....?

Beautiful - very reminiscent of Willie Mitchell's place in Rathdowney.

Deleting an attached image is possible, but it took me around fifteen minutes to do it* and the process is not obvious - I doubt that I could even explain it to myself now... * and then I deleted the wrong one...