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I have reached the time of year when I'm eating what would otherwise go off over Christmas. So I'm adding a handful of penne to sweated vegetables, to be eaten with Linda McCartney sausages. The veg includes cauliflower stalks - similar to but less stringy than celery.

My twenty year old hoover was showing signs of senility earlier in the year. Now banished upstairs and replaced downstairs by Henry.

Guys, No posts from North Hipposhire for over a week. Is DH ok?

The biggest issue is the profile of the rail. Have a look at Little Bytham on the Wright Write's thread. Head on, it is difficult to tell whether it is OO or EM.

One big problem - I'm vegetarian. My usual bar in Amsterdam is at the top of Spui, where the trams slow down for a 90 degree turn. I shall be travelling through Amsterdam in March, changing onto an InterCity to Berlin.

Drinking a cup of tea in the National Gallery cafe. The way I like it - Earl Grey, with lemon not milk. Then off to Dutch 17th century.

LAVs only came as a four! Bill

Used to be two fingers, but needs must.

... with a delay of nine months?

My line (aged 6) with a tea towel on my head..... "How far is it to Bethlehem, Muvver?".

Many years ago, a man asked me at the tail end of an exhibition if he could take photographs if he sent me copies. No problem and I posed a few trains for him. Several weeks later, an envelope of photographs arrived .... with invoice attached!

Try picking up my Spur Null locos. There is a lot of mass in them! There's another rabbit running, 'cos weight is a unit of force.

Friday was no problem, but on Sunday we suffered from NEC jobsworths. Also the idiot (demonstrator?) who parked facing outwards outside an "in" gate. We had to manouever round him to get in and as he had parked in reverse gear without the handbrake, he missed the Yeti by an inch.

I put in a figure that I reckoned would cover the fuel. I've just calculated the rate per mile (two trips to the Premier Inn in Redditch and a diversion off the M25 to drop off an operator) and it comes out at a knats whisker off 25p per mile.

Mum and I went over to Boulogne many years ago to buy the Christmas booze. We purchased up to our joint limit, then were stopped by a very young customs officer at Folkestone. Bags were emptied, bottles counted and we were brusquely told to go on our way. We then told him who my sister was. Turned out she was his boss. She sent him on a customer relations course. In other news, I've started to pack the Yeti for Warley. Actually shoehorn is a better description, because we fit 18' of layout, stock and three operators in it. You will find Blindheim at stand B24.

He looks remarkably like our Abyssinian cross, of over 50 years ago. Mum "got out". He was a very good hunter and very good at "training" puppies. His name was Timmy.

Just to check. If I don't provide cake, HH won't be stopping at Blindheim? Simples. No cake.

I've added notes on B24 - Blindheim.

I watched the video and received a jolt in seelng my late friend, Mike Hayward. Bill

There are many variants of Covid so a vaccine won't provide immunity against all of them. The vaccines do seem to reduce the impact of the virus. My bout in February was no worse than a winter cold; I took observations, temp. up and bp all over the place, but pulse and sats fine. It was influenza last October / November that knocked me for six.

I don't wish to be pedantic, but should the word in the first question be in the plural? Hippopotami?

I'm taking my layout - Blindheim - located at B24. It's difficult to type this - PVA on fingers from ballasting.

I retreated to the garage and listened to the little darlings banging on the house door. Now it's raining so I don't think there will be many fireworks. Personally I hate Halloween. When I was a kid, it was "penny for the guy". My sister and I were too old for "penny ...." when we acquired our Jack Russell Terrier, but he was borrowed by the local kids as a live guy. He made a cute guy wrapped in a towel and sitting in a push chair and was also a very effective minder if anyone threatened the kids.

I visited on Thursday evening. It would appear the LBSCR used their quarter share of the East London line, and a fair chunk of their capital, to build a terminus to the north east of the City of London. Actually not too much capital as that bit of London was already a slum in the nineteenth century. However, to offset their costs, they sold running rights to the GER and GNR (freight and passenger) and the LTSR (freight only?). The LTSR rights were acquired by the MR as a consequence of the 1912 purchase. The team have built a superb layout, which is just about the correct size for an effective exhibition layout. They probably need to develop the fiddle yard. The clubroom fiddle yard is, I'm told, constrained by the available space so they might need a separate yard for exhibition purposes. Bill

I didn't khow you were a Miserable Old Git.