NHY 581

Getting Danemouth ready for its first show (and mine) on Saturday. Going as WIP but given my ham fistedness I am really pleased.

Radio 3 is being annoyingly arty farty again.

Merry Christmas or should I say Nadolig Llawen!

Eating out the wife makes is a rare treat these days

Our new cat Scatoosh has just acquired a taste for poinsettia.

Think Jeremy Corbyn could have made a better effort dress wise this morning

This Great Western branchline stuff is pernicious

Here's a bit of free advice - if using an electric drill to screw shelf brackets to the wall, don't leave your hand between the bracket and the wall when applying power to the drill.

Polk Salad Annie

New empty baseboards - what to do?

Andrew Barclay.

Germans, Fawlty! Bad eggs, the lot of 'em!

Andrew Barclay.

Custom transfer order to Railtech placed 11.35 am yesterday delivered by first class post before 11 am today. Hugely impressed all round.

Weekend Weathering Wagons.

Was hoping to catch some Shinty in the next few weeks but thinks the season is now over..

I said Monteverdi, not the man from Del Monte.

Bad back ache!

Groaty Dick

Is sitting on a Cretian hotel balcony planning layout ideas. Just the 3 so far!

And here is the electronics engineer, Mr Ode and his two lovely daughters; Cath and Ann

And here is the electronics engineer, Mr Ode and his two lovely daughters; Cath and Ann

thinks a supposedly educated broadcaster J Vine does ask some crass questions on his programme. "Should public toilets be replaced by cafes?"

Why would anyone ever want to conceptualise such aesthetic ambiguity?

I have just read about the passing of one Great Modeller, Allan Downes. RIP Allan and thank you. My heartfelt condolences to your family.