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I was just about to post the very same - as a clinical psychologist, I've always worked in the field of what we now know to be genetic neurodevelopmental disorders and when teaching, I have used this very example coupled with a discussion of the 'is/ought' distinction in evolutionary theory.

There was an article in MRC for May 1977 on detailing the K's 97xx (including building the Weir pump).

Someone had to...probably a good idea to have some Butterworth or Elgar lined up to play after this !

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A former research supervisor of mine, and leading expert on memory disorders, was of the view that ECT 'worked ' because of the side effect of severe and disabling amnesia. As Regularity noted, we are basically none the wiser about the effects of running electricity through the human body than we were in pre-grouping times.

Pretty much the same here - I still like reading this article. As far as I know, 'Porthleven' was extended but never again appeared in print and the next article by Dave Howsham was on 'Howley Town' , which featured in RM May-July 1976 - it was an interesting concept (layout on a bookcase) but not a patch on the original 'Porthleven.

A few can be found on the old Slaters PO wagon transfer sheets that were included with the rectangular tank wagon and the various pre-lettered PO wagons.

You're just taking the fun out of it now...

Putting side tanks on 0-4-4T's was definitely retrograde move - I think the 0-4-4WT is a thing of beauty in all its forms.

Re. the Ukraine railway ladies, Mrs CKPR-to-be, myself and the step-daughter-to-be took a trip from Prague to Salzburg by train in 2018 and I was very impressed by the way in which the station masters and mistresses on both the CD and OBB lines met every train in full uniform in a manner that that I presume must once have been everyday practice in pre-grouping days at least.

I seem to recall reading that whilst beards were out, moustaches were actually mandatory in the British Army before the Great War.

It's been propping up lesser volumes on my bookshelves since about 1985 - it would make a good door stop but we have a cast iron scottie dog that I excavated from the garden for that purpose.

The articles were in Model Railways in 1979-80 - I've got the 1980 articles ('4- Signals', '5- Conclusions', '6- Clocks and flashing lights', '7- Multiplexing' and '8- Decoding'). The 1979 articles were in the August, November and December editions.

This reminds me of nothing so much as a real-life version of Iain Rice's 'Treggarick'

Which makes perfect sense to sense to me as I have oft wondered why, other than historical precedent, the Scots have the 'not proven' verdict - my perhaps overly glib comment was my best guess as to the justification for it.

I've always thought that this basically amounts to " We know you did and you've got away with it this time it but don't do it again".

I'd put that on the mantlepiece !

The 'crusty cob' is quite frankly useless for a chip butty, unlike the aforementioned barm...

At Aspatria in M&CR days, the following differential information was supposedly given to passengers: To first class passengers - "Haspatriah, change hear for Mealsgate" To second class passengers - "Speattry change 'ere for Mealsyat" To third class passengers - "Spatry loup oot !"

Hmm, a waisted firebox. My V blocks and height/depth gauge are somewhere in the Aged Ps' attic in Cumbria so more fun and games (aka out and out bodging) with a scriber and engineers square are in store.

In EM, I've got M&CR No.7, the GWR '517', a GWR 38' brake compo and a rake of Ratio iron ore hoppers (yes, the old 1960s ones) on the go and about start a model of Tetbury engine shed to make a home for the '517' but have also got the urge to scratch-build some L&Y bogie goods wagons. Then there's the Maryland & Pennsylvania RR station in HO to finish off and as for the S scale projects...

Boiler and smokebox assembled and half-attached to the running plate after much fettling of the front splashers. Forming the firebox is the next step but I couldn't resist drilling the holes for the main boiler fittings and trying out some domes and safety valves from my stocks. The latter are definitely correct but I'm not sure about the dome - might be time to rummage through the stash of unbuilt loco kits to see if there are any other candidates for the dome and chimney. I've got a smokebox door from the stash of 'Peter K' parts and a pair of 'Caley Coaches' clack valves that are both spot on. You've probably gathered that my engines are basically a shameless bricolage of bits and bobs that have been squirrelled away over the decades.

When I went to Durham University in the early 1980s, I soon discovered that my West Cumbrian idioms and slang rendered my conversation incomprehensible and sad to say I stopped using them soon after. That said, the fact that I sounded even a tiny bit northern meant that I was usually the one sent to the bar in the city centre pubs on the grounds that I would get served...

I was born and bred in Cumbria with parents from Hull, went to the local schools and despite my affected dialect when writing about the M&CR, I have a neutral accent with a slight but discernible generic Northern burr. Needless to say, I am frequently described as sounding posh, especially by Mrs-CKPR-to-be. Who is originally from Coventry an urban conurbation in the the West Midlands that isn't Burr Ming 'Am. And who never ever sounds just ever so slightly like a female Noddy Holder. Absolutely not. Never. No sirreee.