Tony Davis

Probably a corollary of Murphy's Law.  But see Cunningham's Law

All local manifestations of the Universal Law of Sod.

Ward Cunningham is a known individual. I'm not sure if the identity of Murphy is known. Sod was an Old Testament Patriarch, the chief contractor for the Tower of Babel. 

Fillup MacAvity

And here come Mr. & Mrs. Wire and their daughter Belle.

"Ding D0ng" Belle's electric! She turns them on.

Stop, my resistance is low.

Can I quote you on that ... ?

Yes, definitely, it even detected my wireless printers, I am really impressed.

But it's okay to tell her that I'm putting make-up on an expensive model?

Greasepaint, that's what you need.

Ah, the roar of the greasepaint, the smell of the crowd!

I just paint the cotton with diluted enamel paint after gluing in place

I tried gluing the cotton with haffix superglue, to no avail, what did you use to glue it?

just cheapo superglue

have sent you a pm.

Don't Panic! (I'm ok, I've a few towels to hand...)

Hillman Hunter! ROFL

Alexa ...should I take a dump..

Alexa, is also Alexis in the Urals, and Sergei, Vladimir, Pietrov and a whole bunch of other people waiting for your card details.

They should have an East End security enabled Alexa which only responds to "Alexa [action] You slag" OMG just thought of a Welsh version.

I use an old credit card type......card, to scrape it off.

Extra hard scrub with the wood got it off, so thanks all.

Next time, cellulose thinners might be worth trying.

This was on the Facebook page today;

We can now inform you that during an examination prior to last Saturday's planned tour to Holyhead it was discovered that the Duchess has a cracked large flue. During the past week our engineers, along with our volunteers, have removed the motion and on Monday of next week the locomotive will be towed back to the West Shed. The planned winter maintenance programme will commence almost immediately which will include the fitting of new elements. The...

Thanks, hadn't spotted that, I was looking at the PRCLT website. I've been supporting the PRCLT since 1998, a very worthy cause!!

There was more to the post but the comments section must have a character limit. It was the Christmas Rose trip I was hoping to behind it on.

I was convinced that I had switched off the soldering iron until 2 days later when I picked it up by the stand.... Then it was called an F**king hot soldering iron.

Ouch!

Indeed

Has Beans

mills of Your Mind

up Toy

But the sign says the road is closed.

And I mean THE road!

I lost a couple of weeks of modelling time last year to a knife-related injury, so you have my sympathy.

Didn't get any sympathy from the wife either, "that will teach you!" - Well thankyou Florence-bloody-Nightingale!

Pity it's not November, then you could have said the pin for your poppy pronged your thumb and made it bleed - happened to me last year.

No clue, I'm on my travels in Europe.

Is that the name of your new cameo layout?

That's not a bad idea, thanks.

What joys?

None! And now she wants me to do all the others because "the painted one makes the others look dull"