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I bought the double cassette in a charity shop - well, I thought I did, but only Tape 2 was in there when I got it home... It was broadcast in 'real time' sections though the whole day, from the pre-flight stuff in the morning, to the raid itself and the return flight, if you were coming back... Here we are - the first of four parts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6U0e5DUdNQ

The general lack of fireworks in the Republic is a great thing, from my point of view. The annual onslaught on the Big Island has dropped off over the last decade, from a peak in the early years of this century. In an urban area, you would get them daily from late September into the first week of January, with the obvious peak around late October, early November. That fortnight would sometimes be like the Somme - drawn out, if the "special days" weren't at the weekend, in particular. I was once listening to a BBC dramatisation of Len Deighton's Bomber, on a dark, cold, autumn night, when I started to feel that the explosive soundtrack was a bit repetitive and out-of-sync with the narration - at that point, I also realised that the next day was bin day, so I decided to put it out before I forgot again. When I opened the front door, the noise got louder - it was actually a firework display that was four miles away in a straight line, and loud enough to be heard above the flak and bombs on the radio indoors, with all the doors and windows shut. Madness. As a child on the Big Island in the 60s, Trick or Treat was something that was occasionally mentioned on US TV shows - nothing more, and we didn't really know what it was - and Hallowe'en, as a whole, was of virtually no consequence, it was hardly even mentioned.

Three shades of grey?

It's not to be sniffed at...

When I saw this yesterday, I was initially concerned that it was a CAB seizure of somebody's "high value goods".

Phew, i thought my eyes had gone funny*. * Funnier...

Just learn a few phrases - I'm sure you would get away with it. It looks easy enough:- Повторіть, будь ласка. Будь ласка, говоріть повільно. Probably easier than Kerry...

The full picture.

I'm just looking at the size of that antibiotic capsule. I hope it's not for a sore throat.

@leslie10646 will be along shortly to deal with your query.

Great work! Time to get a bigger camera.

I think we need a vote on that...

Times can be a bit 'flexible'.

Excellent! - articulated? - suitable for posing? - does it come with a pouch?

Beautiful models - the figure on the tank looks almost real.

I've been around a good bit longer and used to admit to 14, but I've had a hard couple of years and will accept 15 now.

If you enjoy doing the landscape and aren't keen on complicated trackwork or buildings.

And there were camping coaches at one time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camping_coach

One of my 'claims to fame' is that I've never been arrested by anybody without a gun. By far the most dangerous one also involved a bayonet, and was the only time that I felt that I was really in danger. All I was doing was watching a Cyprus Airways Trident doing circuits and bumps.

You could always defend yourself by asserting that you are "a trainspotter, a loner, an anorak, a nerd with no friends". I'm sure a few of us could easily convince people of the veracity of that position. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-16760464 Unfortunately, i can't find how that case finalised.

At least the chassis aren't black.

A survey yesterday revealed that the car park is pretty much finished, with just a bit of wall still to rebuild, but it's operational in full. With additional spaces on the resurfaced access road. In total there are around a hundred spaces now. Plus these covered cycle spaces. There is no sign of a ticket machine (yet), it may be the intention to have the whole system 'online'. The notices suggest various methods of doing this. There wasn't really anything of an actual 'railway nature' to report on at all, this time. A rather circuitous route home allowed me to include Bridge 202, just this side of Templemore. This, again, looks like a replaced beam structure on original abutments, but it was hard to get much of a picture of the 'outside' of the bridge. Apart from the obvious 'rustic' panels, a lot of the original stonework to either side was replaced by 'modern' concrete blocks, although the ivy was hiding a lot of that. From there, I headed back towards safety via Lisduff, where there was no activity going on. I did record these access pads ... ... and some sort of monitoring device.