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I sweated blood over that - well, the red icing, anyway.

I noticed that it's @RobertRoche's birthday today. I ran out of red icing - I should have done the 3 before I did the couplings...

A suspended sentence seems reasonable enough. As long as the nearest lampposts are structurally sound enough for the job.

These day-glo spray marks have appeared on the ballast by Bridge 188, they run as far as a cabinet about a hundred yards away - presumably they signify the location of some buried ductwork.

A complete dog's brexit, you might say.

Mmm, I'm now considering merging the alcohol mouthwash and the eggs to make a crème de menthe advocaat cocktail.

They get thrown at cars, houses and people - and statues of contentious figures.... On that subject, although the formulas generally contain rather less now, there were mouthwashes on sale on the Big Island, without any age restrictions or licensing hours, some of which contained around 40% alcohol - essentially, it was blue crème de menthe. But the issue was glossed over, as few 'interested parties' ever spotted the potential.

Many places on the Big Island, too - for some time.

Or just tape your mobile to it and ring it from the landline...

Might it be worth rigging up a small motor with an eccentric weight on the support column? Just a little vibration can be very helpful to 'granular' flows under gravity.

Good idea. This is definitely a growth area.

I'm not sure, but pretty confident they've got lighting.

The IRM frontmen will be working on their moves for this, I'm sure.

They'll have to stand back about a hundred yards to read the information leaflet when they unpack the boxes. Any shots of what's in the accessory pack? Will IRM have the special 'blue cross' wrapper, when they finally announce them?

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Some people are more ambitious. https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12342282.fat-controller-goes-to-jail-railway-worker-stole-train-engines-and-coaches-and-sold-them-on-to-enthusiasts/

Nothing - and a whole €3 change left, to spend on yourself.

With nothing I was trying to do today 'going for me', I decided to give up and have a look at the station. Sundays are the easiest days, anyway, if, as I correctly suspected, the enhanced car parking is not fully accessible yet. Things have progressed nicely, and the end is in sight. The approach road has been resurfaced now, too. There is still no sign of a ticket machine, but there is potential ducting in a plausible location for one - we shall see. The station itself has had some attention. The white platform edges, yellow lines and platform warnings have all been newly reapplied. They are (currently) so clean and bright that they might draw criticism on a model layout. The previous markings have been removed first, so the upside-down letters and alien script of the past are gone now. The removal seem to have been done by something along the lines of a rotary wire brush. There are occasional circular gouge marks and some paint remains on the chamfered edges of some paviors. Also, during my tour of inspection, I finally noticed this expansion joint, about a third of the way along the loop past Platform 4. I've never noticed it before.

Even in G Scale, you'll struggle to fit a sound chip and a smoke unit.

Further into the wilderness, I noticed today, that this signal, between bridges 14 and 15 in Roscrea, is just visible from Lidl car park, off the Birr Road.

The Hunt class ships had their last Deltic replaced in 2018, apparently - so, Brocklesby might still have had one when I intercepted it on Ulysses in 2013. I couldn't hear the exhaust clearly.