DonB

at low tide

around the bar-room

Clever bit of lateral thinking there for the flag stones. I thought the guy was from the local flour mill

with delight at

of fat lady

night-time underground trains

camouflaging the incessant

in the lawn

polluted the atmosphere

which were defined

without response from

you put all us armchair modellers to shame! Nice little conversion, not even seen the possibility mentioned before. Were these "calming therapy" after your recent server problems??

Going back to Post #1 (3rd picture) you showed a partial underboard view of your support legs which do not appear to be linked to each other nor cross-braced. How did you avoid wobble or swaying of these legs on an open frame board construction?. An impressive layout in the making! :icon_clap:

Of broccoli for

washing his socks

Patton staggered home very late after another evening with his drinking buddy, Paddy. He took off his shoes to avoid waking his wife, Kathleen. He tiptoed as quietly as he could toward the stairs leading to their upstairs bedroom, but misjudged the bottom step. As he caught himself by grabbing the banister, his body swung around and he landed heavily on his rump. A whiskey bottle in each back pocket broke and made the landing especially painful. Managing not to yell, Patton sprung up, pulled down his pants, and looked in the hall mirror to see that his butt cheeks were cut and bleeding. He managed to quietly find a full box of Band-Aids and began putting a Band-Aid as best he could on each place he saw blood.. He then hid the now almost empty Band-Aid box and shuffled and stumbled his way to bed.. In the morning, Patton woke up with searing pain in both his head and butt and Kathleen staring at him from across the room. She said, 'You were drunk again last night weren't you?' Patton said, 'Why you say such a mean thing?' 'Well,' Kathleen said, 'it could be the open front door, it could be the broken glass at the bottom of the stairs, it could be the drops of blood trailing through the house, it could be your bloodshot eyes, but mostly ..... it's all those Band-Aids stuck on the hall mirror.

into the bilges

Did the beetle survive? or should we have a period of mourning? Will the other beetles in residence be laying bunches of flowers to mark the spot? Is the beetle to be reported to the Railway Police for trespass and to the investigation board / Health and Safety people? Did your footplate people and passengers survive? How long before normal service will be resumed, such an incedent on BR would result in at least 2 days service suspension.

Completely bowled over by that Multigauge Pointwork

I have seen this one previously, can not remember where, if on RMweb,...Apologies for repeating:- Banned from Tesco!! Yesterday I was at my local TESCO buying a large bag of Purina dog food for my loyal pet and was in the checkout queue when a woman behind me asked if I had a dog. What did she think I had, an elephant? So, since I'm retired and have little to do, on impulse I told her that no, I didn't have a dog, I was starting the Purina Diet again. I added that I probably shouldn't, because I ended up in hospital last time, but that I'd lost 2 stones before I woke up in intensive care with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms. I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to load your pockets with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry. The food is nutritionally complete so it works well and I was going to try it again. (I have to mention here that practically everyone in queue was now enthralled with my story.) Horrified, she asked me if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food poisoned me. I told her no, I stepped off a curb to sniff an Irish Setter's backside and a car hit us both. I thought the guy behind her was going to have a heart attack he was laughing so hard. I'm now banned from TESCO!! Better watch what you ask retired people. They have all the time in the world to think of daft things to say.

For a photo taken by me it is surprisingly sharp!! If you do decide to model it, a PM gets you the full size file. All the markings are legible.

Was not sure whether to post here or on the *another distraction* blog. M.S.C. had an (ex?)GWR(?) Toad brake van which is preserved on Gloucester docks complex. I took photos when I was there last year and will try to post in the Gallery since I can not do so here. It would make a nice pairing with the Sentinel (assuming that they ran together in real life!)

Happy Birthday (for whenever), So tell us the make and method of propulsion, I assume Battery, and remote control again?? Does it approximate to any known prototype?

Four Guys go Camping Four guys have been going to the same deer camp for many years. Two days before the group is to leave, Frank's wife puts her foot down and tells him he isn't going. Frank's friends are very upset that he can't go, but what can they do. Two days later the three get to the camping site only to find Frank sitting there with a tent set up, firewood gathered, and dinner cooking on the fire. "Damn man, how long you been here and how did you talk your wife into letting you go?" "Well, I've been here since yesterday. Yesterday evening, I was sitting in my chair and my wife came up behind me and put her hands over my eyes and said, 'Guess who?'" I pulled her hands off, and she was wearing a brand new see-through nightie. She took my hand and pulled me to our bedroom. The room had candles and rose pedals all over. On the bed she had handcuffs and ropes! She told me to tie and cuff her to the bed, and I did - and then she said, "Do what ever you want." So, here I am.

in the communal