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There may be the odd layout with a Coronation Scot already. And anybody who remembers Paul Temple will be taken back immediately by the theme tune.

It's had a surprising amount of editing this year, after a three-year gap.

This Wikipedia article turned up in the "Did You Know?" section today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Johnston_railway_station

If using certain publications, be sure to take the staples out.

It is bizarre - I suspect there must be rumours of a cholera epidemic coming next... I know people who work in supermarkets, they say a delivery is gone in ten to fifteen minutes...

Have you considered opening a health spa, offering alternative treatments?

Tinfoil is a close replacement, and not in short supply - yet.

The internet suggests that I could be back here in half an hour with a new microwave oven for £39. I bought one in 1983 for £180, the internet suggests that is equivalent to £522 today. To be fair, it is still working, just, though it is getting very slow now. I would always suggest getting an old-fashioned type, "with knobs on" - more reliable and quicker to use.

Accurascale's next wagon?

Bargain. There was a single roll with a Buy It Now of £1,000 on yesterday, but it's gone now....

Would the rails (and sleepers?) be a little bit on the large side for 00?

Ah, his elbow should be safe enough. 1,500 volts divided by 76 is just under 20 volts...

It's a historical relic - explained here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EM_gauge

At least the undercarriage isn't black.

Mmm, apparently, he had chills, and they were multiplying - it sounds like it was probably just a straightforward 'flu.

Very little to report from today's inspection. The footbridge lighting has been renovated. It was wet and windy, it being a day in 2020 with a vowel in it... It was noted there there were a few cars parking in the 'ballast yard', possibly semi-officially, but parking is becoming a real issue there now, I would have been hard put to find a place to leave the car for more than the few minutes that I was there.

Obviously, your account has been hacked.

Insist on using a scale rule.

Back again. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-51789577 "We are ready to respond to any unidentified aircraft and potential airborne threats, 24/7/365." - Not the perfect claim to make in a Leap Year.

Of course, the C-19 arrived here many years ago, in the form of this Avro Anson variant.

All attempts at improvement are to be welcomed...

Some people have given all this some very deep thought - well, as deep as they can...

Money in the form of cash, door handles, handshaking, etc., are all potential routes for transmission of all sorts of things. Anybody with any concerns is welcome to allow any cash they are suspicious of to rest in my account...

Never underestimate the availability of stupidity. During one of the artificial fuel shortages on the Big Island a few years ago, my local filling station was subject to the usual panic buying queues. This clogged the roads so much, that the replenishment tanker couldn't get there when it was empty. Also, even though under pressure, the cashier spotted that a car had been 'filled' with far more fuel than it should be capable of carrying - and a fish tank was discovered on the back seat. Also, someone else was apprehended trying to fill a wheelie bin with petrol. Masks are more about reduced infection from the wearer. Viruses may well be small, but the idea is to catch the materials that the virus is travelling on, rather than individual virus particles.

Even in the late '60s, in Hampshire, we were still getting paraffin delivered by a horse-drawn 'Esso Blue' tanker. The quality of the signwriting would lead me to believe that the tank, probably about an 80 gallon oval one, was a bona fide Esso product.