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.

PS. I cannot explain where the underlining in the above post came from.

This is turning into a far more 'occasional' series of updates than I hoped. It has been back in the garage working on the final baseboards when I could put up with the temperatures recently. This board has a unique issue in the form of 3 points where the track leaves the board at a very much not 90 degree angle. I am addressing this by adding triangular wedges outside the board. It has been a learning journey. Version 1 was a simple, solid triangle, to be attached using the two slots, glue and a couple of horizontal screws. I decided this may have something to recommend in potentially being able to sacrifice the wedge if damaged without destroying the whole board, but not sure about the strength of the join. So for version 2 I cut the main board side down so that the wedge rests firmly on the board side, to be held in place by glue and horizontal screws. Better. Version 3 is more integral to the main baseboard, with the edge strips continuing into the baseboard and attached to deeper supports. I feel that version 3 is the better choice, and more likely to retain vertical alignment with the mating board. So version 1 is getting amended to reflect what I've learnt.

I got so close one time, then the lawyers walked in and I knew one of them. Apparently it was a good un too.

I too regularly holidayed at Aberdaron in my childhood, it seemed such a long drive from Liverpool. Lovely bakers. Shame there was no station and Pwllheli was always damp and in the wrong direction. I remember the gradual expansion of the Ffestiniog.

My tears are like a leaky pipe.

You forget the effects of immigration also being a factor (for the last time, glorious sunlit uplands etc) * * other simplistic metaphors also available.

Look on the bright side - ice cream doesn't have hands and doesn't breathe out. Also is it time to remove the question mark from the thread title yet?

My local Tescos is selling a useful-looking storage tin for £1 (was £4 before Christmas). Bad news is that you have to eat the original contents before starting to use it. Sorry, can't face trying to rotate the image. Ruler not included.

I got a chrome book recently and found out that I cannot use my desktop antivirus on it - not compatible. Same AV package can be added to phones/tablet though.

BBC News - The Glasgow artist inspired by what she finds in the fridge https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-55348596