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That did cross my mind, split the universe as it were, there would be a market for that I am sure. I always expected Clara to end up with a spin off Dr Who series when she went up in the diner.

Depends who film making companies see as the future audience of their output - if it is moving towards a woke female generation then a female Bond would appeal directly to that audience and make a lot of money.

Kernow had some cheap EPBs in Green on offer, come on Clive, you know you want to - some sort of extended Newcastle third rail, down the East Coast, through York, Normanton, Barnsley and into Sheffield Exchange.

Women can be womanisers as much as men can, women can also bed men with abandon but culturally it has always been that a male womaniser extols positive labels whereas a woman doing the same is a jezebal, a harlot or other more inappropriate for this forum slang. Women spies are not uncommon neither are women who are fully capable of killing another person. Bond is a character no different from any other, can be played by any race or sex, it is afterall the world in which Bond exists that is key to the success of the film and franchise.

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There was something similar on Facebook recently and it concurred with KP Nuts trains

Using Kato track it would seem by the spacing.

It will be ready when it is ready, no point trying to force something, you'll only end up being dissatisfied with the end result. I enjoy watching your layouts develop.

Hattons probably wouldn't need to - they have a network of retailers who have sold other product they produced and not everyone is going to want N gauge Garratts to sell.

Accurascale are quite happy in the OO and O scales - even mentioned in the latest note in this thread from Fran. Working with RevolutioN allows N gauge modellers access to some interesting models that would never see the light of day without them collaborating. Doesn't mean everything RevolutioN do in N will be done by Accurascale or vice versa.

But what if Accurascale have operating doors and a range of Daleks - then you'd only need a big return loop and 36 HAAs

I can buy a whole suit for less!!

Which is probably a good thing, no Government should be immune to challenge from it's own members and ensures that it cannot simply rely on block voting to railroad through changes.

It's interesting that just as you see the source of your problem that solutions appear as if out of nowhere - the universe always has your back and presents solutions. It seems that one of the issues I was facing actually had a ready made solution written into the code a couple of years ago by ME but marked out due to firewall restrictions that no longer apply. So turn off one command and replace it with the other and hey presto Woodenhead is a happy man, makes the remaining 4 web pages a doddle to update.

I think I have found the source of my anger and it wasn't Covid, it was work related. I've been doing some system migration work over the past week and it was going swimmingly well until Thursday, then I hit some difficulties owing to very old code and it sparked off an imposter syndrome episode that I don't know what I am doing. So my deep rooted imposter syndrome issues surfaced as frustration at the current mess we're in. Now I have figured out where it is coming from I can do something about it, in fact, I am doing something about it, first web page rebuild nearly complete.

Father Ted Crilly, Craggy Island Bank, Craggy Island Parochial House.

My son was messaging me last night after work (pub management), furlough will mean a precarious living from November despite there being 5 of them sharing a flat for a not substantial rent. I thought I was angry and dismayed at recent events, he was livid, he said they've put all sorts of things in place to be able to open - I remember he's had to turf people out when they refused to follow rules and he knows his pub is 'covid secure' but the messaging just want's to blame his sector. He's angry because of the mess being made, he doesn't believe he will ever afford to buy, worries about his future savings and life in general. At least he's been able to make the break from home, my other child is stuck with us on 16 hours per week and no obvious signs of being able to get away. If the young believe they have no future then why on earth will they respect requests from people so remote from their lives, so much so that the Government has had to impose and then increase sanctions on people who mix - whilst potentially allowing rich businessmen to cream money in non existent schemes related to eat out to help out through weak processes. People already believed the future was bleak, but destroyed hospitality, holiday and retail sectors will create unemployment on such a scale we may never escape a minimum wage benefits Britain. Don't forget Christmas is just around the corner and we have another present to come on 31st December which may compound our problems unless there is a Christmas miracle. I really am down about all this aren't I

You're not about to launch any Consett Hoppers are you?

There's likely to be one on Mars one day but no-one will go as it lacks atmosphere.

The current measures in Scotland has seen the closure of pubs and hospitality across the Scottish Central belt along with a ludicrous only drinking outside policy elsewhere which means there is a hotel by Loch Lomond that can serve you a meal and a soft drink inside but if you want an alcoholic drink you have to go outside. Something like this is expected in the North of England from next week, so my son may again be out of work, hopefully furloughed but who can say at the moment. The longer these establishments stay closed the more chance they will not re-open, coming back to exhibitions, the longer exhibition spaces are denied the greater the chance the businesses that run them will collapse. Leisure centres don't yet know if they will be included in any future lockdown but as they are only 1% source of infections they shouldn't be, but as they were the last to reopen again who knows what might happen next week. The immense damage to the fabric of society, the economy and relations will last for years, they may announce a vaccine, it may be 50% or less effective and they may announce the battle over, but the impact of the war will last a decade or more.

@Dunsignalling I won't say I am not scared of Covid, I am, I don't want it and I won't wish it on anyone else but I am starting to think that the approach being taken is imbalanced and not sustainable. Never thought I'd be using Richard Madeley as a reference, but it does seem rather like WW1 trench warfare. There needs to be a consistent approach to protecting the vulnerable that is sustainable, the people most at risk are the people most likely to follow guidelines, at the moment it seems to be going the wrong way trying to influence the masses via curtailing freedoms and fines - it will only end up in a massive kickback when people can take no more. Even the Government's own MPs can recognise there is a real issue with diktats coming from cabinet, posted in the media rather than scrutinised by Parliament. The media itself is constrained because the press conferences the government is hosting are not press conferences they are PR events that do not allow scrutiny by the press, just a single question which the speakers can choose not to answer without fear of being challenged. Now we have a US style press person to host these events, recent experience in the US show this is not a good omen for open government. In this thread we've talked about cancellations, such cancellations are not stretching into 2021, no individuals will have the confidence for a long time to plan an event. I noted last night the government gave some good news about some holiday destinations, great, summer is over and would you want to risk booking anything at the moment when things can change again overnight.

They expect everyone to change, but do so in ways that actually drives people in the opposite direction and for 99% of people it not an illness that will kill them - that's the awful truth. Most people will therefore believe, especially under 40, that they have nothing to worry about and it's not their generation that is being impacted. Perhaps the answer is, and HMG are now talking about this, is helping people in the actual vulnerable groups to be safer. I'm over 50, I have in laws to keep safe, my own father died last November Covid would have really spoilt his quality of life as he only ever ate out. I am in that more vulnerable group and I know to keep away from people, it not the best thing in life but it has worked for me so far, though having a wife working in schools and an adult child working in the supermarket/commuting on a tram means I know I am not completely safe. I have a mother in law, shielding since March, only seen her young grandchildren once since then, she's not seen my offspring once. She is awaiting now a serious operation for an illness unrelated to Covid - she's at risk not having the operation but it may yet get cancelled when in the next two weeks the hospitals switch back to being Covid battlegrounds and all the other things like cancer and other serious illnesses that kill as many or more than Covid get ignored. And yes I am angry, angry that an illness that kills a small number of people is affecting the whole world in such draconian ways, that it is setting up a new normal where no-one will feel safe, that our lives will be monitored ever more, our travel rights curtailed and unemployment will soon be rife because the economy is in tatters and our children will be paying the cost through lost education and taxes when they are earning to pay for all the bailouts. The elderly and vulnerable will have even less support going forwards as the care sector will face even more cuts in the future as councils and central government are forced to make more savings to help pay off the debts that extremely rich around the work will reap benefit from. Deep breath time and back to work.. But they are and encouraging things like snitching on your neighbour, that's out of a 1984 novel or worse from the GDR.

If I could see care home in patient infections and education facilities on that list I would agree with you, but their very omission makes me very suspicious. Just because it isn't in the news nor is in in the diagram doesn't mean it isnt happening. But it would destroy the messaging if it was disclosed because they want to tell us it's all our fault.