durham light infantry

USB mug warmer from ebay for around £10. I use an old foil cat food dish. The decals release quicker and conform to undulating or raised surfaces better, helps reduce silvering.

Thorpeness

If you build the layout and lighting fascia well (and we know you do!) You can double deck the layouts and still operate them. The fiddle yard on the lower layout is going to be cleared out this weekend. As I've just been reminded it's got to be ready for Thirsk at the end of July. As for the 009 layout out of sight to my right, September and nothing constructive done yet...

I am still reeling from the news that Ken Gibbons has died suddenly. A thoroughly decent human being, top bloke, gifted modeller and champion of the micro layout. At 62. With Pete Johnson going earlier this year, and some non modelling friends also passing early I am shaken. After nearly dying myself 3 1/2 years ago I thought I was good for another 30 or so years, but am I? Let us take this as a clarion call. Get off our phones/tablets/laptops (apart from checking on rmweb!). Love those closest to you and lets get some modelling done. Don't hold back. Dive into that stash of unmade kits, build a micro layout, or just run some trains. Do it for the Kens, Petes, Tonys, Iains, Roys, Normans, Teds, Johns et al. But do it for yourself too, that three score and ten is not a given anymore.

Why, when I read the name "Berkshire" do I think of this? The future buk ships?

Easy, if you say you are in the White Helmets! (That's a reference you would have to explain to anyone under 50)

Museum closed, exhibits mostly dispersed. Some of the bigger aircraft scrapped on site. All to satiate and pander to Virgin Galactic or whatever vanity project it was. Ultimately failed, naturally. Imho Cornwall Council behaved very badly in their treatment of CAHC, I used to visit whenever down in Cornwall and am not sure about spending any time or money in Cornwall any more. Pity...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67168388 Czech village priest sorry for smashing pumpkins I rely on my fellow rmwebbers to have at it with this one...

My headmaster at comprehensive school would burst into the "Hippopotamus song" at any opportunity. He was a delightfully eccentric man, and I still love the song with it's word play and happy mental images. Just the thing for a damp autumn day.

Yes, that sign is only held on by 2 little screws. It will have somebodys eye out if the wind gets up.

Isn't it to do with the weight on re-entry, it has to be right for splashdown in the right area. Apollo 13 command module was underweight on earth return because they didn't collect any lunar material, and had to ballast with items from the lem. Underweight means overshoot, overweight means undershoot.

All narrated by Brian Blessed

I think I may have mentioned this before...

How long to eat it?

Unfortunately I have had to withdraw Mutton (and myself) from Newcastle show. The memsahib is 'Required' to work that weekend, not negotiable. I am sure tbe Sheepmeister can fill in the blanks on that one. All being well Mutton will be there in 2024.

666, the number of the beast 664, the number of the beast next door (Sung when Iron Maiden are played on the radio, to much eye rolling from my Wife)

2 esses in Teesside. An even more occasional and older ex-Darlingtonian.

- The Memsahib frequently questions my need to buy more books. To which my reply is "If I die first, you can sell all my books and have a couple of good holidays out of them" Her reply "What if I die first?" Me "I get to keep all my books"

Wrong film old boy. Michael Caine not Richard Burton, although Rob could possibly play the Donald Houston part.

Fred and Syd had their first trip to the seaside today at Crail, while visiting family in Fife. Got back to Auntie May's and they nabbed the guest bed...

You need to take your trusty steed north of Scotch Corner a time or two Rob. Newcastle show last November had Hallbank Gate, Canada Street and Sheep Lane. It was a good weekend.

Any contact between a Manufacturer/Commissioner/ Interested part is a strictly confidential matter , and treated with circumspect and due diligence. I was involved with some nearly 10 years ago, and despite not being employed by one party anymore I am still not expected to disclose any commercially sensitive information. Nor will I.

IIRC the problem with the carburettor was a faulty diaphragm and an ovalised hole, a revised maintenance document was subsequently issued by Rolls Royce.