Well after another manic day at work, I finally got home, and after dinner the Domestic Overlord very kindly dismissed me after I did the dishes and sent me to the spare room to play with my trains

Anyway I flicked on electric, powered up the old controllers, sat down to watch the trains going by, and slowly the work began to slip out of focus. Just as I was totally in the land of nod, I was abruptly brought back to my senses by a harsh shrill voice.....

"Billy, Billy Grimes, what's that mark on your neck, if that's a rash your not getting off school, let me have another look at it, get your backside over here", before I knew it, a sudden pain in my right ear, and me suddenly accelerating despite no physical movement of my body told me that I was in the hands of my Mum.

"Well you dirty little ######, I know what that is, you dirty little devil, you have been hanging around with those nasty girls again" well I wont have it, get into the front room and let your Dad sort you out. Before the final words had let her throat a sharp pain in the bottom signified that if I dawdled and did not keep out range more would follow and I was escorted to the front room.

I was trapped, the door was closed behind me and I was left in a room with Dad, "So what's all this about, what's got your Mum's knickers in a knot then?", "nuffin" I replied "just mum said I was not to hang about with dirty girls, but they are not dirty, the smell of carbolic and I checked behind their ears and they are clean".

"argh I guess that mark on your neck is what did it, now listen to me cloth ears, you have to be careful hanging around with these dirty girls, you might end up catching something silly, I hung around with one once and caught something nasty, its called your mum, now ###### off outside, and leave me get some peace".

So where was I to go, I know the station, a few minutes later I was down on the platform. Sid the Porter told me that if I was lucky I might see the Ivatt twins, and that they were a real dirty pair. No matter how hard I looked all I could see were a couple of strange looking engines, oh well more numbers for the book.

Well who needs girls anyway, all a lad needs are trains anyway, a few minutes later they were coupled up together and the strange pair drifted off into the distance.....

Hang on a minute, they looked pretty similar, in fact they were almost identical, you could say the were almost like twins.................as the penny finally dropped, I was dragged back into reality, of the Domestic Overlord standing over me, "well if you were just going to sleep up here you may as well have just gone to bed, and after I was kind enough to let you play with your trains"..................

Until the next time Happy Modelling