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Marvellous stuff! But, the building behind it in the last picture is still 'too clean' and a bit over-scale, I think.

Brophy would do. (Not that I am one). I still run a Nokia 3510 - I'm not the best person to ask about these scratchy phone things...

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I hope the unboxing goes well.

Put a bit of tape over the lenses of any cameras you have - remote activation is often easy...

When I was a lad... We went from Hampshire to Snowdon in one of them - overnight and very slowly. I would have been about 10 or 11. The other lads were (what I thought was) a lot older, up to 17/18ish. I did a lot of things in my youth that I wouldn't do now, but they had a game that I wouldn't do then. When hanging out of the back, hanging onto the 'entry rope', became a bit ordinary, a new task was started. The object of this was to exit the flap at the back and proceed along the side of the rear bed, using the odd straps that were flailing about in the wind, then finally entering the cab via the hatch, and returning to the back. About half-a-dozen lads achieved this goal. All this happened as we progressed along the A5 on the overnight journey. Amazingly, nobody was killed or even injured. A few car drivers were unnerved by the spectacle, but all the entrants used the nearside of the truck for their passage to the cab and back. On the return journey, also overnight, we arrived back and there was no sign of me when the back of the truck we being emptied. I was discovered underneath a large crate full of equipment that had overturned onto me in my sleeping bag. It was too heavy to shift and I, an extremely heavy sleeper, just went back to sleep for the rest of the journey. When I was discovered, those who were supposed to be in charge were petrified that there "could be paperwork", but I was able to persuade them that I wasn't going to die - I wasn't even injured, just hungry. One for a cameo scene..?

Time for a new category in the competition?

All new technologies look rubbish at the start. Imagine being a witness to the Wright brothers' first flight... ...and yet, fifty years later, there were jet airliners. Some things will work, and some things won't.

They're currently reengining the remaining B-52s. The last new one was delivered in 1962.

Details here. https://www.irishrail.ie/en-ie/train-timetables/Proposed-timetable-changes-from-10th-December-2023

I should have included his website. https://www.odeith.com/walls/ I believe he may be related to the O'Deiths from near Mullingar...

Got an untidy corner in a shed, just copy the style of Portuguese artist Sérgio Odeith.

He's just teasing - they use the same coupling.

You also have to consider the scale 0, 00, S, TT, N or even Z...

"My Way" would do, but I reckon you would do a fair "Delilah".

Noticing that a year has elapsed since my last inspection, I called today, unannounced. Immediately on arrival, it was clear that a total replacement programme has occurred on the signage. I did feel that the signs with the map could be better sited, to make it easier for a driver to work out where he is, if he has become disorientated. And I discovered a rather more technical way of saying "just let yourself out". New litter bins have also arrived. And fencing to secure the Nenagh branch terminus. The new footbridge is suffering from the elements in places. The old water crane, on the other hand, is looking well after a recent repaint. The water tower looks no worse than it has done for some time. The 'alien message' made from mixed-up bricks, that was assembled on the end of the Platform 2/4 ramp, was erased when the new platform markings were applied. My visit had concluded when I just spotted headlights under the bridge and I was treated to 221 pulling a few flats through.

I understand that the current prevailing theory about that one is that it's actually a psychiatric disorder.