Broithe

I've been on a 201-hauled train that was well into three figures between Portarlington and Kildare about eight years ago, I think. I used to time the milesposts...

You must be patient, Grasshopper.

I don't disagree, really - but it is just a telly programme to be watched by people who would just watch something else, if that was on - sad, though that is. It's usually a mistake to watch any television programme that is about something that you actually know about yourself.

I've just watched it and, to be fair to Michael Portillo*, it is really a travel programme on a railway theme, rather than specifically a railway programme - not too bad, really. *If you had told me twenty years ago that I would ever write that phrase, then I would have had you certified. It is to his credit that someone who was one of the most obnoxious people in British politics has pretty well redeemed himself over the years. Ballybrophy on Thursday - I may still find him guilty, if he doesn't do that right.

Of course, Wales is only Little Britain, really.... http://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Bhreatain_Bheag

Ireland is the second largest of the British Isles - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles - the poor people of the UK are like those of the USA, they only have a word for themselves that accidentally includes those from other countries, too.

Definitely faster - even for me over here..

We all know that he just turned it off and turned it back on again.

The warning that was in 'Site News' is one of the ones that's gone - but, nobody's died....

Malix is HO(m) - there's very little about it on the net - I did see an article a while back about building the spiral itself. It really is good. It worked faultlessly all day, even with such a steep gradient on a fairly tight spiral - and the added drag of the pantograph.

The Flock.It was being demonstrated at Stafford yesterday and seemed to work quite well. http://www.dccsupplies.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=4310

Here - http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/1104-Win-a-free-baseboard!?p=19739&viewfull=1#post19739 - the perils of multi-posting...

Malix is based on this sort of thing...

The Swiss one, Malix, was the best for me, too. The standard was spectacularly high - in fact, it would have been much harder to pick the worst, rather than the best...

There was also this chap, specialising in railway guns. Now, who does that remind us of...? http://irishrailwaymodeller.yuku.com/reply/502/nearly-nearly-finished-rail-gun#reply-501

I went up today - here's s few pics. I realise that layout names often have a reason behind them, but I declined to enquire about the back-story to this one..

On The Hour used to be on the radio, straight after the Six O'Clock News - if you missed the join, it was even funnier - top stuff. Contains very early Partridge and, coincidentally, a buffer-strike event...

3-D printing of buildings - full-size - on the Moon - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21293258 .

I used to work with a chap that even looked like him - one day, he stayed behind after work to nick some wood. In the dark he stepped on a nail through a plank and it just hurt too much to get his foot off. He was on his own, three hundred yards from help and the plank was ten foot long - he could only move about an inch at a time - he realised that he would never make it before he passed out and managed to get a rope over each end of the plank and take the weight on his shoulder, walking it like a skier all the way to the Security Hut. They had to saw the ends off the plank to get him in the ambulance.. How we laughed.

Of course, it crashed instantly when booking started - I know somebody who was desperate to go, but I don't know if he succeeded...

Looking back through here, I found this. Were you aware that they're doing it again in London next week - http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/music-and-live-performance/kraftwerk-catalogue-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 - all sold out instantly, of course, and they wouldn't let you buy for the whole run, anyway... There might be returns, though....

Now, don't go blaming me.....

The previous ones at Heuston were a bit less modern-looking, and red, as I remember it. There were fewer of them, too, I believe. Probably longer hoses...

I have a few Schulze discs - must give them a run again..

If you remember the Climax Blues Band that had a big hit in the '70s with Couldn't Get It Right, Derek Holt still lives round here and plays the local scene. Every now and then he does his one-man Pink Floyd show and it truly is excellent. Can't find a video of it on YouTube, unfortunately. Nice chap, for a megastar, not up his own arse at all. Here he is with his own song - and a load of noisy gits...