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He does have an assistant. Some French guy called Matt La-Cquer....

Maybe its a Tetris thing, you need to turn, twist the boxes in a different format to fit them in. Either that, or the old box wasn't blue with 'Police' written on the outside was it?

Same way pears go from rock hard to mush while you're not looking....

Something like a Venus Fly Trap? Vegans float on top but it devours carnivores....

Well the 11 kettles don't count really because they are preserved, the 20 odd units can't legally be run at the same time, and as for locos, well too many, but 2 x class 20s only count as one don't they???

Congrats, two is great, but it starts getting harder after that, I've currently got 4.5.......

Similarly turfing people out of reserved seats....

Ah yes, those were the days, when group B rally cars would literally dig boulders out of the Kielder Forest tracks, and launch them at you!

A spectacle and sound to behold, especially the distinctive exhaust note from those 5 cylinder Audis.

I actually installed a window in the end wall during lockdown, messy but was worth the effort.

As for the little people, they haven't moved in yet.....

Gas price is up again, so coal is probably cheaper...

It doesn't stop there. LT Museum had Christmas stuff in their shop, and Card Factory is full of stuff.

Wifey did buy the Lego and Playmobil sets for the grandchildren the other day, as last year was fraught with getting the requested bits, and that was without the shipping, driver and fuel woes of this year....

On hold at #42 while undergoing some medical investigations. Mustn't B negative though, but I actually am....

Well done, and I'm still hoping to go beyond the 50, having started a bit late in life really.

Because they never get beyond Sesame Street....

It would have to be plum surely, I thought currant would be a spotted dick....

I started with a cheapish single action, but for N it was just a bit too coarse. I have now invested in an Iwata double action, and the difference is worlds apart. I run a compressor (with reservoir) bought from Aldi with a filter regulator downstream of the compressors built in one. Getting the paint thinning right is half the battle, and I have found some acrylics don't stay mixed well for very long. Why not get a couple of cheap Airfix style kits to practice on, more challenging than painting flat surfaces.

Got the album, in purple vinyl too, Worth about as much as a 00 or N loco these days...

Sorry for your loss. I think what we need first are a few photos of what there is, as what some of us would deem small collections, might be considered extensive by our other halves... (my wife would have a fit if she opened my spreadsheet and looked at the actual number of items and their original value of my own collection!)

Personally I have traded-in with a couple of retailers and been happy with what I got for my items. But beware, my father-in-law disposed of his brother's die-cast bus collection as a job lot to a dealer, then regretted it when he actually saw what some of the items were worth later.

If you invest in a copy of BRM - British Railway Modelling though and scan the ads, you will find several dealers who will collect and apraise the collection.

Where are you located roughly?      Someone on here may be able to recommend someone fairly local to you who can assist.

Someone has worked out that

STAY ALERT; CONTROL THE VIRUS; SAVE LIVES

is actually an anagram of

EASILY SURVIVES TRAVEL NORTH TO CASTLE

Declaration, 68 Guns and all that

Passed Charles Babbage last week, now firmly in EMU vehicle terittory....

I don't personnaly use eBay, but with the bombardment of emails from various other online purchases asking for ratings and the proliferation of fake ratings out there, how believable are they any way? Small time users maybe, but the more reviews, the more I would wonder who was writing them.

Recent case of a guy buying a pub that shut in 2011, researched it for renovation purposes on the net, only to find several reviews from the last couple of years.....

So many options,

mains or battery?

cylinder or upright?

cyclonic or not?

wet or dry?

Oh, option 1, normally the service department....

Slow and needs refreshing to get all images up, was similar yesterday too..

Spar had them out before Christmas...

Love bites, with a different kind of tension....