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I agree my point is and will remain that we have a responsibility to the rest of the world . The vaccine roll out is shining example of what can be done and is a credit to those involved in organising and carrying it out. At the same time poorer countries have received very few vaccines9like 40 odd African states which have so far had less than a couple of hundred doses. I do not wish to be misunderstood Hancock did well this time, as did many others but the richer nations cornering the supplies is not good for the world as a whole.

Is it not about tie that we all realised that this is a pandemic ie it involves the whole b----- world and stopped all the tub thumping jingoism and all the we done better than you done and got our international act together. If we dont it will come back to bite us in the collective bum.

Thanks for that, sort of wish she would flee now!

Gosh he wont be able to buy a new pair of socks. the £200 probably about ten minutes running around he would not even have to kick a ball

I thought she was the Queen of Carthage. It is apparent that if you handa job over to people who know what they are doing(ie vaccine rollout) it gets done properly. I HMG chucked the TT&T money at local public health services, which had been starved of cash and run down for years the system could have been made to work for the simple reason that Public Health do track and trace as a daily operation. The smallpox outbreak in Birmingham in the early70,s was squashed by public health in the area in a matter of days.

I'm interested that you are modelling the Baptist Church it burnt down one Christmas in the 80's. I think it was 1987 I lived just round the corner from it and was on call that night. Called out twice before midnight I drove past it then had along shout at 0100 coming back home at 0600 to see it a burnt out wreck of a once stately building.

its what she said. She also said that the rise i cases when the universities went back ws unpredictable and unforeseeable. Shame really

This honorable and dare I say it courageous man probably achieved more in the last year of his life than most of us manage in a lifetime

As far as I am aware the transition period involved us following EU rules etc etc whilst a trade deal was discussed .This had the effect of us being a member though not a member. Whatever all the time ( UK) was in a position where we could have done exactly what we did ie made our own deal re the vaccine, under EU rules. yes I guess they did fall into that trap/

As we all know the sun will come out Tamara.

Probably not actually true read Donoghue v Stevenson and Lord Atkins on personal duty to your neighbour. In everything you do be it lawful or no be mindful of the effect it has on anyone you may affect by it.

IMHO making any model of anything in any medium requires history craft and research before even starting . Provided of course that you want something that looks something like the thing you are modelling.

Merry Christmas Alex, and everyone else of course.

We lived in Dobwalls for a few years whilst this amazing place was open. The Thorburn collection was apparently the largest in the UK at least. A big part of the problems was simply that during the season Dobwalls was frequently gridlocked or worse still bypassed by busy holiday traffic and people simply got through as fast as they could which was not fast, rarely stopping. If this railway had been almost anywhere else it would very likely have survived. Like many bits of Cornwall ignored by tourists and the tourist industry Dobwalls hid a fair amount of poverty and was a lot more isolated than it appeared externally. The irony is that more people stop at he village and pub now it has a bypass than did before. Strange as it may seem to those who view Cornwall as a source of second homes and holidays people actually live there on pay rates well below the national average and with highly seasonal employment not being well able to afford to buy homes in their home county . Theyare dependent on council and association rentals . until recently Dobwalls was a hive of such housing ( although we lived there in the 70's and 80's I have only been to the pub twice since we left over 30 years ago). It is still the place you go through or round on the way to somewhere else.

all this about internationals and premiership is all very well, my local level 7 club has not been allowed to play since March and is very likely to go out of existence fairly soon in common with many local town/village/community clubs. O course the big TV fees and government grants will keep the top tiers alive. As with association football the big boys will carry on but their roots may wither which will cost both very dear in the future. Eventually the minnows will recover but it would be really good if the government and the big boys actually did a bit to help them. I was going to say 'a bit more' but in common with many clubs the community clubs are on their own the premiership and championship will eat up the government subsidy all on their own.

the draw back is if the rozzers stop you they ask you to read a number plate a random distance away, it's supposed to be 25 yards you may be caught out! best to drive to Barnard Castle to make sure that you can see ok

Pulling out the wheels is ok for em gauge. Use a hub puller a bit at a time alternating sides. If you are careful you may not need to remove the rods! Put the wheel sets back on the chassis and it may work but the plunger pickups may not reach!. I bought an extra set of terrier pickups and replaced the plunger pick up at one end, the other end has wipers (Dapol) . a bit of tweaking of the wipers and it should work. So far I have done this 3 times and it does work but you are reduced to pickups on four of the 6 wheels. i dont know if this will work with the newer Hornby Terriers and I cannot help with the locomotion model.

which is all that counts. It's easy to buy something RTR but much more fun and rewarding to DIY IMHO.

one or rather 35 born every minute!

As a matter of interest I have a number of bashed pugs made into various things all run at a crawl with megatons of weight liquid gravity old tyre weights and lead sheet. about 75g is ok with a gaugemaster feed back controller to gain a creep. if you can get more weight in it helps, and using a small pivot on the front axle to sort of compensate really does help running.

227 is a rebuild of the Hornby Queen Mary 0-4-0. bunker removed and new cab rear. boiler shortened to match the GERS drawing, which involves a bit of shortening of the footplate, which I did not do that well. The chassis was originally a pug but I scratch built it eventually using the pug as a template. Power is a Mashima open frame motor with a 50:1 gearbox and flywheel, wheels are 15mm Romfords with balance weights from milliput. The valve gear is modified N gauge stuff I had in the spares box and it took me an age to get it to run proper. The tank sides need overlays so that the left side bunker can be included. I guess that you could use a pug chassis but would need Walschaerts valve gear from somewhere. The cylinders are from an old set of princess stuff again in spares box and the slide bars are from a pug. chimney is an old Nu Cast chimney in the spares box, dome a Hornby southern dome clacks are from Hornby Schools and all other bits out of the spares box. This loco has been in my to do box for ages and the lockdown got me to finally get on with it. The photo exposed a few problems the cylinder angle were wrong ride height off and lettering rubbish, since mostly corrected. The LNER classified them (all four I think ) as Y4. and by that time 227 had a shorter chimney and cab with cutouts like the others. As regards the Pug mechanism I have found that weight +++ helps a lot as does a feedback controller and a lot of running in. Filing the axle slots and reaming out the gear wheel to 3mm does enable rewheeling with romgord axles but you gots to be careful. Hope that helps.

thanks to all who liked my bashes. I am fascinated by the brutality of the camera. You build what you think is a goodish model then photograph it and it looks way worse! Back to the drawing board. I don't usually photograph my models I think I will in future as an aid to improving them. This thread is constantly fascinating what peope produce froma few fairly basic items seems to have no real limits.. Bash on folks.

noted that the lettering and the number plate were wonky.My eyesight is c...p corrected the errors so it might look better now. also a coat of matt varnish helped.

couple more GER no 227 from one of those odd 0-4-0's by Hornby and a manning wardle from a pug

isnt the camera cruel!