NittenDormer

Apologies if it has already been mentioned, and I know this is a high-art discussion, but the Black Lace video to 'Do The Conga' was filmed around Keighley on old buses and the railway in what appears to be in part a tribute to On The Buses. Here is a link. Enjoy the earworm.

So I have been pottering away with the usual slow progress, but have not bothered adding any updates for a while as nothing seems to get completed. Tonight is tunnel design, and I seem to have got about the right combination of curves. Clearance is not huge so I will probably expand everything by a few mm. The second photo is the Engineer's Toolkit - from L to right the source of the 3 curves involved.

Phew, just scraped in less than a year since my previous post. Various excuses, family, work, exercise. Scouting means that I have two hobbies that expand to fill the time available, as a result trains barely got touched from summer to Christmas. Back doing bits and pieces, revisiting boards, building the remaining 2, but keep jumping from task to task so everything is permanently half-done. When I can remember my password on a device capable of taking photos I will start posting visual updates again.

There are a lot of 'core stability' exercises out there that will help, they also improve running efficiency. I get told I am too upright when running, apparently its meant to be a constant falling forward with your legs struggling to keep up. Depending on what you read. If you can, try some swimming too, non impact so protects the leg joints. Also, please draw some shapes on your runs (strava art).

One problem I have had is the join between the viaduct arch barrel and the wall. I've tried a few different methods More to follow.

View from above gives away my card source. Other boxes may be equally tasty, tasty, very very tasty.

Next in the occasional updates... For a while the garage was habitable. Then around Easter the night temperatures dropped and I had had enough and retreated indoors to play with card. Here is the second half of the urban viaduct. I always feel less like a planned engineer, more of a bodger, adapting things as I go along when the first idea doesn't quite fit. Here I am using an amended way of sticking the arch skin to the side walls after I felt the original technique was too weak. I just hope the width is the same as the first half.

If we're going to replace St George, my vote is for St Polycarp. Just like the name. Incidentally St George's Day also appears to be a big thing in Scouting, which I can't help suspecting is entirely due to the nationality of the founder (English). Is there a patron saint of knots?

Hairdressers open from 5 April! On the fourth day, the clippers will rise again.

To be fair 'Ben' No Surname doesn't necessarily narrow the field enough. Not helped by his rmweb 'handle' being distinctly Ben-less.

Really nice, and good progress too. I do love a nice red Swiss train.

My understanding is that AC allows in-cab and directional lighting.

Aftershave, deodorant and elbow sharpeners.

Clothes pegs are ideal clamps for model buildings.

I thought that at first, but am now including a minimum of 2 pieces of track from 1 board edge to t'other, allowing a slight expansion gap between the 2.