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both sides hurt!!

How could I !!, my place in the hills overlooks Victor Harbor , it wasn't the American influence, just that some plonker got the spelling wrong and as no-one could be bothered to change it, that's how it stayed. It and the Fleurieu Peninsular in South Oz is really lovely area, I am so fortunate to live there, all thanks to SWMBO.!! Mike

That is exquisite modelling Mike

Yes on reflection, I agree, no offence meant Kev. Mike

Jokes thread????????????????????

Wish I could, my late mum's birthday coincided with the coronation and I remember with fondness the celebrations of the days following, we all had a wonderful time. I was only six but I can't remember any nastiness or dissent around the occasion, great fillip for the people after the tribulations of the previous decade or so. I still think 46220 Coronation should have been preserved.🙂🙂 Mike

Pablo Picasso has just left his studio in Montmartre in August 1932, and is ducking down a back alley to get back to his apartment when he is brutally mugged and robbed. Crawling back out to the main street, he is taken by some kindly passers-by to the police, where he is prevailed upon to do a sketch of the brute who has assaulted him – effectively the world’s first attempt at an identikit picture. For 20 years thereafter Parisian police keep up the hunt for a man with three arms, a hole in his chest and a third eye right in the middle of his forehead.

High praise from you indeed Miss P. (love and trust your comments and opinions) .............pity it's not Midland Spinner😁😁!! Mike

Not sure what you mean there Kev, we just spoke about how long I'd worked over in the UK and the absolute "and that's it" was the answer, "there's no argument, full stop". Anyway we're over $40000 better off thanks to SWMBO............so I really couldn't give a rats!! Mike

Very interesting: re Centrelink and their attitude. Two years ago I asked about my eligibility for a UK pension and was advised that In as much as I had not worked for eleven years in the UK there was no entitlement, so I left it there!!. I had in fact worked for nine and a half years there and my wife later saw in a newspaper article that there could be a pro-rata claim, so I went through all the formalities( I reached retirement age in 2011) and last week landed a payment of $37.5 K( back entitlement) plus another $4.8 K and and an ongoing $350 every four weeks. So never believe the BS these publics servants are advised to tell .you............could be more Deltics on the way😁😁. Mike

I don't generally like American humour but some of the stuff you mention there is truly brilliant. Mike

So did I!!!😟😟😟 Felt like a real dick! Mike

Wow that's a magnificent, can't see anyone competing with that!!.........😇😆🤭

Thanks David for your kind comment, now all you have to do is paint all of those lovely Pacifics RED !!!😆😆, sorry Sir Nigel....I'm sure he would be well chuffed looking at your wonderful creation. Rgds.....Mike

I haven't looked at this thread before (stupid me!!), because I am basically an LMS man but what a brilliant model this is, really capturing the atmosphere of a BR steam shed. Rgds.......Mike

I was given a solid silver fob watch in 1984 from my late parents, it belonged to my great uncle Jack who I vaguely remember, it would have been about 1949 when he passed. Anyway I always loved the thing and one day took it down to our local jeweller in Victor Harbor, to see if it could be made to work, it had to be sent away to a specialist as there were hardly any such people left in South Oz. About three weeks later I got a text to say come and get it, it had been serviced and a new key made, Jack was close to 70 so that watch would now be well over 100 years old..........it has never missed a beat since. I wear it with pride and the attention it receives is unbelievable. Cost of the fix......approx 35 quid( 70 $ aus) Mike

Lovely work Mark. only saw one of the class "McKenzie" it had red nameplates in1960. Rgds....Mike

Brilliant modelling, still can't get rid of the kipper smell!! Mikr

Oh sh*t!! Mike

I really find some of the comments on this thread, very strange. Here we are, shortly expecting the most accurate and exceptional model of an iconic prototype and people are bitching. I have one ordered (don't tell SWMBO} and I will just be happy when it lobs on my doorstep. Mike

I am sorry if this info is somewhere on this site but I am stuffed if I can find it, been to Hornby's site too .....no help!!, in August 2021 I placed a pre-paid order with the Little Train Shop in Launceston Tasmania. The owner has since absconded and the Company is in the hands of a Liquidator, does anyone know the estimated delivery date of this item as my Credit Card Company is playing hard ball. Rgds........Mike

What a wonderful story. Rgds.......Mike

This thread reminds me so much of the times at Grantham in the late fifties, lovely times, except for being "put" on the train back to Derby Friargate an excruciatingly long journey it used to seem, after watching the magnificent procession of East Coast Pacifics. Wished I could still do it though. Brilliant modelling Gilbert .....Thank you Rgds......Mike

Absolutely beautiful, used to see these machines in close up at Crewe in the late 50's, early 60's, most were kept in the condition shown🙂, unfortunately some were not, I remember seeing 46234 drawing into the platform and thinking, how could they let an engine out in such a dreadful external condition. Shades of what was to come I guess😪 Mike

We had lots of wars at the local pub, usually when the Doherty boys were around, generally after closing time and yes the neighbourhood was often described as "rough".😬😬 Mike Apologies for the grammar in the previous post!!