Ha ha ha ha ha, boom boom! He's not just a puppet, he's a British icon! The Tweed jacket, the refined accent, the toothy grin, the razor-sharp wit. Remember his constant interruptions that would cause 'Mr Roy' to grab him round the snout?! I'm laughing now just thinking about it. Pure TV heaven.

On the subject of brushes the most recent task has been upgrading the 92 project to v4 standards. I've yet to do a full recording session with one so a little artistic license has been used along with the recordings I have got. It's in the final tweaking stages now and I'm very pleased with the results.

Other editing work has seen upgrades to the Leyland DMU project using new material recorded at Llangollen, and work on the Voyager, again to bring it up to v4 standards. I've also come up with a method of shortening the minimum length of playable horns so it is now possible to do realistic short blasts as well as longer ones. This improvment is being rolled out to all projects on an opportunity basis.

The last couple of days have been concentrated on my rake of Inter-City Mk4 coaches. I recently discovered that Keen Systems do resin parts for the underframe skirts and the TSOE coach end piece (the TSOE is the coach next to the loco, which has the corridor connection blanked off). I bought a set of each to try. Being resin the detail is not high-definition but they're both better than scratch building. I'm minded to send some photos to Mr Harvey and get some etches made up to go over the skirts.

Finally, did I mention that I recorded a Class 60 last weekend.....?