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  1. Kindly do the needful.

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      Stentor

      ... and revert

  2. A pox on all washing machines, tumble dryers and similar domestic appliances that have a beeper or similar to nag you to attend to their needs at inconvenient times.

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      Stentor

      My Mother in Law’s Washer plays The Trout by Franz Schubert when it is finished but being as deaf as Beethoven she can’t hear a note.

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  3. Hush... Here comes a whizzbang...

  4. I’d forgotten that I needed to be psychic to know the Yodel Guy was outside as he hadn’t rung the bell or knocked

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      Stentor

      Thanks Pete I’ll try that after my 50 mile round trip to their depot and I’ve stopped swearing

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  5. wishes Nicholas Parsons a Happy Birthday at 95. I hope that I'm as mentally sharp if and when I get to that age.. Our national treasure

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      Stentor

      You’re all new here so he’ll give you the benefit of the doubt ...

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  6. has just crossed the Oresund Bridge from Copenhagen to Sweden

  7. wishing I didn't live over 7000 miles from Telford

  8. So what I thought was a failed crank end seal on my Suzuki GT250 turned out to be the neutral selector seal, 2 bolts, no engine out and split crank case = result, more time for the railway.

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      Stentor

      EBay is good especially if you have a parts book and can search by part number. Some bits you just cannot get so you have to try a scrapper or get them made

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  9. Lemmy's base playing on Hawkwind's Organe Accumulator -- still rocks me to the core !!!

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      Stentor

      As does his singing on Lost Johnny

  10. Heathcliffe, its me, I'm Cathy and it's my (Kate Bush) 60th birthday today

  11. CTMK has purchased for me a pair of shorts of a very bright pastel colour, which would certainly qualify as being of Portillo quality and I have to wear them. There will be no photographs.

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      Stentor

      So you have 20 washes to go before Railwells to degrade the brightness

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  12. Got myself an amazon echo, what fun!

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      Stentor

      Say “Red Alert” to her that’ll raise a smile

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  13. And when you find me, and when you find me all alone, this world has never been my own...

  14. Is considering a Hornby midland compound conversion to a Tilbury tank. Has it been done before?

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      Stentor

      There is a shapeways body available if you can sort the chassis, not seen it in the flesh but here’s a link https://www.shapeways.com/product/C36Q62995/lms-ex-lt-sr-442-tank-loco-superheated?optionId=43807353

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  15. ...strangers passing in the street, by chance two seperate glances meet, and I am you and what I see is Me...

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      Stentor

      You should find someone to take you by the hand, Pink

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  16. Trago Mills. Purveyors of....

  17. Due to the search function not working for me, does anybody remember the thread about detailing/improving the Olivia's EM1/76?

  18. Now Ernie had a rival, an evil-looking man, Called Two-Ton Ted from Teddington and he drove the baker's van.

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      Stentor

      She nearly swooned at his macaroon

      And he said now if you treat me right

      You'll have hot rolls evry morning

      And crumpets every night

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  19. Still remember coming home from school 51 years ago to find my mother in tears and the word Aberfan would always be in my memory

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      Stentor

      It was the same in our house, Aberfan burnt into the nation’s consciousness

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  20. "...wind of time is blowing through me; and it's all moving relative to me..."

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