Huw Griffiths

Fair comment.

I'd definitely suggest re-posting in the "modelling questions" section of this site.

As for the problems you've mentioned, one major issue with old Lima stuff is the "pizza cutter" wheels - you (or someone else) might perhaps be able to grind them down on a drill in a stand. Other options might include replacing the wheels or swapping the bogies for modern Hornby equivalents.

As for corridor connections, this might depend on whether anyone's planning on "backdating" DMUs - or doing "class 121 / 122 driving trailer" conversions on outer cars. OK - there's more to this - but the corridor connections might not be needed with certain conversions.

I know I'm thinking of doing some conversions in the future - but I wouldn't be much help, because I'm in a different part of the UK.

For some inexplicable reason, that reminds me of "Chopped" (a show that used to be on Food Network) - especially the bit where Ted Allen lifts a cover off a plate and says: "------, you have been chopped".

As for "Fred the flour grader" that takes me back to TV ads from my childhood (quite a few years ago).

Don't tell us (as if any of us hadn't had it forced down our throats, with the constant adverts, shop displays etc):

"IT'S CHRISTMAS!!!"

Ho! Ho!! Ho!!!

(Well, I guess some people expect me to at least pretend to sound cheerful. I normally would be - but it's far from easy right now - for various family reasons.)

Probably better than me.

Let's just say that I'm not particularly good at darts.

I just hope nobody suggests drinking the stuff regularly.

(Perhaps not the best of ideas for some people!)

Is that what's known as "one day" delivery - it should get delivered "one day"?

Aberfan?

I can't imagine too many complaints if family members are "trained" ... .

But do they (go round and round)?

Their bus is defective, after all ... .

It could be worse - it could be the love theme from "The Godfather".

Let's just hope they don't start making "interesting" "offers" ... .

Some people might ask if that makes the dough taste sour ... .

Joking aside, some of us actually enjoy "sourdough" ... .

Some of those rags say the same thing about everyone - in all lines of work - especially when they go on strike.

With a number of employers / lines of work, the reality seems more like one or two big bosses seeing those rates - and the majority of people who do the real work being expected to aspire to something close to the legal minimum wage, with unpaid overtime or split shifts.

Sometimes, there appears to be an element of trying to destroy public sympathy by presenting ridiculous claims as "established fact".

Round here, a well known bus company recently pulled a similar stunt - paying a local rag to print a piece full of claims that had already been debunked. Eventually, the piece had to be retracted.

So some extra, unwanted, sound effects - or a rather unpleasant "sound and light show"?

Either way, not what anyone wants ... .

You would have been welcome to the one we had round here yesterday.

It seemed to stick around for hours - without really going away - which I found rather worrying.

This might be because one at the end of last year fried my broadband router ... .

At the recent Ally Pally show, one exhibitor had an atomiser wafting around some aromas.

Thankfully, these didn't include certain olfactory delights people at certain shows are reputed to have come to know and love* ... .

(* or not - as the case may be ... .)

One way of guaranteeing that at least some trains will move - even if they are in OO scale ... .

Well, someone was going to say it (or at least think it) ... .

Yeah, man!

There's a reason why you've won these awards.

Some of us also like the fact that you're not one of those noxious individuals who go round saying: "Hey, look at me!"

You've earned your awards - please enjoy them.

It's not as if anyone knows anything about sheds in Heathrow ... .

AKA "admin" or "keeping the place tidy" ...

I wouldn't bet against that record being broken next year - on February 29th.

(Of course, I also wouldn't bet on that happening ... .)

I think I know what you mean, however ...

For some single people like me, a convincing case could be made FOR vanishing into the railway room!

Thanks for that - very interesting (and now bookmarked on my laptop PC).

I alway thought it was supposed to be "measure once, cut twice".

Of course, it's always possible that I might be slightly mistaken ... .

Surely the full ten minutes?