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Multi Purpose Vehicle.

No hi-vis - asking for trouble.

I bought a 'generic' Nikon lens hood, which turned out to be indistinguishable from a real one. I presumed it was coming from China, but it would be under the VAT ransom threshold, so i wasn't too bothered. When it arrived, it had been posted in the Solomon Islands. I doubt that I could have posted back "Thanks" written on a small piece of tissue paper for the total of £1:02 that it cost me.

Adelaide - 1992. https://www.lococarriage.org.uk/ireland_1992.html

Today's inspection tour revealed few alterations. The polite notice at the end of Platform 2 has been renewed. And one has also appeared at the end of Platform 1, too. The 'new' bridge is starting to look older than the 'old' bridge ever did... Some more interesting masonry textures.

See if it works with hair - there's a few on here who might be interested...

Done.

If we're saying things again, then I'll (re)say that I usually find 'modern urban' layouts a little disappointing. They often look a little sparse and artificial. This proves that that does not need to be the case.

There are probably quite a few songs with railway connotations - here's one that it's taken me a while to capture, but I finally got it tonight. Not quite HD...

You never know, they might be using the privatised 'Royal' Mail's new Back To The Future service. I'm still waiting for this* to be delivered the day before it was posted. Maybe they're using DeLorean vans? * Not a railway-related item.

My card turned up today. Cheers, lads!

It won't be an issue in this case, but I've found that exposure to UV radiation (sunlight) will fairly rapidly make some transfers quite brittle. Living in the Med in my youth, it only took a few days on a windowsill for them to become very difficult to apply successfully. Even well stored ones can become quite brittle when getting a bit elderly*. *Like most of us...

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Someone gave me an old laptop that turned out to be exactly 'right' for me, so I looked around for another, just in case. I discovered that there were two general prices for identical machines, about 80% were at the lower price and 20% were about five or six times more. I wonder if they were targeting the "it must be better"/"you get what you pay for" market? In the end, it is all a market...

You would think you might be safe, that far from the sea?

"It's a small price to pay for perfection" Let her think you mean her...

Plain bearings*, rather than the 'traditional' pin-point ones, will always have that bit more drag - what friction there is will be at a somewhat greater radius from the axle centre line. * I presume they are plain bearings, to get the axle through and make the bearing caps rotate?

Earlier this year.

Deer may be an escalating issue - they are often rather more agile and determined than the average domesticated animal and the numbers around can be rather greater than people might notice. It is said that there are actually more deer about now than at any time since the end of the last Ice Age. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21688447 The scale of the lineside fencing in Ireland seems generally a lot more 'discrete' than on the Big Island. I live near a 'wild patch' and we have quite a few deer-related road traffic incidents, about three or four a week - I've witnessed a couple and the damage to the vehicles was very dramatic, although no occupants were significantly injured in either. When I first moved here, in the mid-70s, I lived in digs and the phone number was almost the same as the one that you would ring for the Warden who dealt with the aftermaths, just the last two numbers reversed. We would get a false 'alert' every few weeks, usually after the pubs had shut. I remember being woken once, in the early hours, by my landlord answering the phone to a rather inebriated driver who had got a deer stuck through his windscreen - "Well, if it's still alive, give it the kiss of life and take it to the A&E" I often wonder what happened...