Captain Kernow

One of the benefits of going through the vets for something like that is that you should be prescribed a product that is effective and not something that doesn't really work properly and which is bought from a non-specialist source. That's certainly our experience with regard to flea treatment. And anyway, our vets are really good, professional and kind and have helped us and our cats so many times, so I don't begrudge them their profit.

I use cellulose thinners, applied with a cotton bud. Dirt runs away from that, screaming into the night...

Looking very nice, Al. This kit was one of my first, many, many years ago!

Purposeful and handsome in their mother's eyes.

Eye of the beholder and all that...!

And 1458 had a top feed in the late 1950s but it had lost it by the time it was working the Kington area lines and later the Chalford auto.

Top feeds can be very confusing. Some locos had them when photographed in (say) the late 1950s, but had lost it again a few years later, presumably due to receiving a replacement boiler.

At least we can be pretty certain that the Dapol one will run smoothly on DC straight out of the box. Very good news indeed, on both counts.

Yes, didn't it work the way I did it? Sorry, I blame incompetence.

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Thanks, old fruit, I knew that's why my ears were burning... And I spent part of the day with your jolly nice book about the Titfield Thunderbolt. I'm glad everyone seems to have had a good time.

Yes, I think that's correct, there may even be the odd set still in service down here, but most of the 2+4 HST sets (I don't like the name 'Castle') seem to have gone elsewhere.

They used to double head the Pines Express over the Mendips...

The 37s were almost ubiquitous in the South Wales valleys for a long time. Based only on the books I've perused over the last couple of years, I'd say that 08s doing trip workings on lines like that were comparatively rare.

Have a most excellent day, one and all.