Captain Cuttle

Hello, Checking which shrubs of ours have issues and first off is a berberis which lost its leaves back in July, what has happened to it do you think? Regards Alan

And this on YT

The second part of this amazing but very sad collection of classics apparently abandoned in collapsing sheds, location unknown, but its not Kent. At 12 mins in a ZA Magnette, 13 mins in a Rover P4 75 cyclops and at 21 mins in is a Jowett Jupiter.

A fella from school in Ramsgate back in mid sixties had an A35 that he thrashed and either broke half shafts or knocked the big ends out of it. Much to his fathers disgust as he had to keep repairing it!

Not what people who buy RTR want i am sure.

What is the best time of the year to do that. There is so much wet weather here in Devon atm. It has spread over 100ft from hedging at the front to the back of our garden. A mixture of laurel, holly and red robin. I did try with some fungal spray from B&Q but couldnt reach the top as not so agile now!

Sorry to hear of his passing, he was my go to guy on all things Pullman.

So are the wheels secured in a similar fashion across their whole steam loco range?

I dont know if climate change is a reason why a lot of our shrubs appear to be affected by powdery mildew as most are over ten years old and have succumbed this year. I always thought laurel to be pretty bullet proof but that has it as well in various areas and the red robin has a leaf curl. Will fungicide help i wonder as these are large hedges ! Alan

Sounds bit like my dads Simca 1000, in the wilds of West Cornwall. I was told to not start poking at the rust, great engine though!

Just edging into the dry dock now very slow process.

Here is the dry dock just being positioned at Galveston. Texas is due to arrive about 9pm our time.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP94GSctWv8

I can i just pop this in please, the Battleship Texas is being moved tomorrow and towed to Galveston for dry docking.

Early Javelin

Looking at their website earlier with their sale this week, how many pre owned defective A3s and A4s there are. Has anyone identified and managed to cure the running isssues with these locos?

Yes same here with the food, Teddy generally has Fe lix sachets but sooo many different varieties now. Beef with carrot, another with courgette, saith with salmon etc etc. Yes licks all the gravy or jelly off and leave the dried lumps behind, then you add cat soup and then he does the same. The remains go in the bird box which my wife puts out late in the evening usually encountering the resident hedgehog and some stray cat and all is wolfed down! Tried all the cheaper ones and generally will eat first sachet then no more. Yes and goes berserk for prawns and tongue! Thinking back to the seventies we had katkins, kit e kat or whiskas in tins and that was it. Plus we always gave our cats milk to drink but now it's harmful so just water!!

We had similar earlier this week with about thirty starlings taken over the grass and pulling out worms etc. They used to be in next doors hedge till he cut it all down. Today our sparrows were back must have been over twenty of them having dust baths in the borders, lovely sight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yVxEuMbftE Look at 1.25 - MGB V8 from Japan, never seen one of these beauties or at 2.09 special bodied Karmann Ghia or at 6:16 just a few! Nissan Figaros also like the Skyline GTR. Then there are the VW vans, one with a Subaru flat six shoehorned in.

Used to 'race' one of these with my mini cooper engined minivan in the seventies on the north circular from Romford to Uxbridge, happy days!

Ivan Dutton, best known as a now retired Bugatti restorer has produced a series of videos, this one on his Maser 300S build.