chris p bacon

I've only been to Switzerland once and had a most enjoyable time, but I would question which century you actually mean.

Some are easy like the 91 and Mk 4's. But for anything else you'd need to say what period/time/region for any answers

I reckon that's the first time I've heard someone say they like the sodium lighting I have heard the argument and investigated parking nearby and heading in by train, but after a 90 minute drive and splitting the parking among the 4 of us (£3 each) it's just not worth the extra hassle. It also adds a further 45 mins to an hour to the journey each way as the stations are not easily accesible from our route. Anyway back to PN as I feel a J6 approaching............and if it isn't I'd like an inspectors report as to why.......

From the Police at the scene I have a feeling that may be the case. As for the car ............a new washing machine coming to you..... My truck is most likely going to be purchased for spares & export

That's a year old.

The driver is ......elderly......I think that spatial awareness of the width of the car is not a strong point, look at the scrapes down the passenger side door and rear panel, that's not my truck. No phone, we checked. I think he just drove along the road and completely misjudged his road position. He was returning from picking up the car at a local garage after having a drivers side mirror fitted which had been knocked off the previous week.

I go each year with a few others as it's ideal for me to see and buy from small traders, I totally agree about the Sodium lighting, I attend a few other events in the year and the first thing the lighting does is make me yawn when I enter. Car parking is silly money but we split across a car full (as well as fuel) although last time they ate all my liquorice allsorts!

Sometimes I just can't resist ....... Although I never mentioned bonding the ply with sausagemeat

I'd try Roasted

That's the trouble when you're famous...........I now have a vision of you trying to attend incognito wearing Groucho Marx glasses and tache to keep the hordes at bay.

So for todays instalment of bad driving. I give you an 8M wide road on a clear sunny day with enough room for 4 vehicles. Park a bright red truck in front of the gateway and add a driver who either isn't spatially aware of his vehicle, or has his mind on other things. A couple of days ago, I parked outside my house and walked around the back of the truck to drop something indoors, I walked up the drive opened the door and when I got to the kitchen heard the loudest noise I've heard for a long time. It seems a Peugot had driven into the back of the truck at 30mph with no attempt to brake. The truck had ridden up onto the roof of the car (The gouge in the roof is the bed of the truck and the hole in the bonnet is the rear wheel) it then launched the truck across the pathway and into the wall. Weighing 2 tons and with the brakes on the truck travelled 22 feet and was only stopped by the pier & railings. As I ran straight back out to the scene and seeing the state of the car I was expecting to see someone in a very bad way*. As I put my head through the passenger window the driver was sat looking dazed and confused but without any visible injury. Luckily my neighbour was at home and he was first at the drivers door while I 999'd, and after a wait of 1 Hour and 20 Minutes an ambulance arrived !!! The thing about the accident that's p'eed me off is not that the driver hit my vehicle (it's just metal) or that he maybe shouldn't actually be on the road (age) but that the CCTV I have on the yard picks up his car passing my neighbours wall and 2 vehicles directly behind him. As I ran out those vehicles then drove around the collision and drove away without stopping to give assistance or to say what they saw. Heartless B*stards! Without my neighbour being at home and a driver stopping some time after it happened I would have been on my own while countless vehicles just drove past getting agitated with having to wait. I've called at his home to see how the driver is but as yet haven't found out. * Have to say that having been on the scene of suicides in my younger days, I've not slept much since because of what I thought I might find.

I've always fitted as big as I can.

When I was foreman I had several apprentices, one of which had the nickname"Glue" he was thick and got stuck on things.

You're confusing the OO version of the 9mm's where they're bonded with the boards closer together, the P4 one's are 9.5mm.

The Napier Deltic engine is essentially a 2 stroke, admittedly it has one or two minor complications with it...

Being broad gauge is that P4..........

Well, they've got a point. You've completely ignored using 2 sheets of 9mm bonded together..........

As someone who was so taken with the trackwork on PN that he ripped up a complete layout of Peco to start again, I can vouch for Norman Saunders at Just tracks. It was following a conversation with Gilbert that I contacted Norman and I'm so glad that Gilbert encouraged me too and that I did. As Gilbert states it is not cheap, I wouldn't say it's expensive though, I'd say it's Value For Money. If you want some top quality work then you can't go wrong. I commissioned mine in a different way to Gilbert in that I did all the plain track myself while Norman constructed all the turnouts to an agreed and shared plan which I then weathered, wired and fixed in place. This was over a period of 12-14 months. Am I happy...Yes......would I do it again.....Yes. I'm confident enough to say that Gilbert thinks much the same way as Normans work is superb, the only difference is that I can't take such excellent pictures of it!

I can only imagine the queue in arrivals and baggage reclaim.

But if you don't check you won't know for sure. Could it sell out before you get there............

I know a couple of former LD Councillors, and when I asked them what they thought of Tim Farron they were not very polite. Their view was that he was already out of touch and didn't listen to what the general public were saying.

Thanks for confirming I was correct when I called you a troll. You hadn't a better argument but just posted imflammatory comments and yet later said you weren't fussed either way. I like a healthy debate and 99% on here are more than capable of disagreeing politely, but It's no wonder the Mods lock threads when posters act like yourself then come out with the old chestnut of " please do try harder to make your point " and flounce away with a comment such as post 289

There's absolutely nothing here for me. ...........So obviously I'll return time and again to look.....

I thought it was Ben Doon and Phil McCavity

Contrary to popular belief a Pigeon is far too big for a Red Kite. In studies even a medium sized rat was too big for them to lift off with. They are also very lazy and are only after carrion. A Sparrowhawk on the other hand (Female) will easily knock one out of the sky (seem it above the garden)