Harlequin

And last time I looked, there was no R in Wembley...

Meanwhile, I don't know how some people repeatedly manage to morph "nuclear" (as in power etc) into "noo-kee-lar"' or something equally ridiculous.

New cue ler is the one that irks me.

And don't get me started on (s)Pacific (sic)

Eh?

Slow telly? It’s either cricket or watching paint dry. But neither could be described as “stunning”.

Must admit I saw the listing and thought "maybe" then forgot to have a look.  Did they go all Potter over the Gelnfinnan Viaduct?

Cricket is only "stunning" if you get hit by an errant six....

My ginger and white lump still owes me a Fleischmann N gauge Profi coupling - Daft lump ate it!

Being the big softy that I am, I was wondering how I would keep our lovely but pesky cat out of my shed when it arrived. Shed now up but we had to 'say goodbye' to our cat when he became seriously ill (yet again, and again). Now I long for him to still be with us so he can sleep on a sunny part of the baseboard once more...

Cats are not pets. They are sent as a punishment.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali!

You ain't seen me. Right?

Buono estente!

At least Escape To The Country is still on....and today's young couple have a budget of £900,000....really?

Not to worry folk - there's still Channel 81 as a football free zone and often with lots of scenic information for those modelling the '50s and '60s.

"Chris and Sheila decided not to buy any of the million pound 16th century manors in Wales we showed them and instead moved to a high-rise condo in Singapore"...

It was book sized, book weight and inert, like a book. It was...

A book that I had forgotten I'd ordered about the Taf valley.

Its so easy to forget....

I know that feeling - a copy of "I tried to run a Railway" appeared at home a few days ago. Turns out I ordered it some 15 months ago...

Possible Bank Holiday drinking game?

length of a snooker cue is just a bit over (~1-3") standard gauge. You'd be needing an extension for broad gauge.

I'd still be useless at the game even if they had Broad Gauge pockets.

But how many are unique, and how many are the banned returning under a new nom de l'adhérent?

It doesn't matter. It's an arbitrary number like so many others in life.

And the winner is: @Greg Mac Oz (Welcome aboard Greg!)

<Imagine balloons falling from the ceiling and a fusilade of party poppers...>

I thought you were on about the Traffic song:

"Forty thousand headmen couldn't make me change my mind
If I had to take the choice between the deafman and the blind
I know just where my feet should go and that's enough for me
I turned around and knocked them down and walked across the sea"

but I suppose I'm showing my age ...

I know... He was "unpleasant", shall we say. But Gill Sans is /the/ railway font and none of the alternatives are half as good...

Culottes?

A bit draughty at this time of year!

I had to laugh the first time I saw a sign on a main line track saying 'Caution: ballast gluing in progress'.

Were they that recycled plastic they sometimes make park benches out of?

Is C&L supplying them....?

Funnily enough my garage (separate from house) has its own ring main with 60amp power so I could in theory install a cooker

You'll probably get a clown in a box.....SUPPLIES ! Speccysavers

I made it back, had some lunch, going back out there now with a fresh cuppa. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/2216/entry-20643-test-track-lightweight-baseboard-construction/

The Mayor of Horrocksford will have to be informed.

Is he the boss then?

It's when your boss says "What do you mean, oh no, not another bloody announcement" that you need to worry.

But at least they're not sinking pints between throws (as it were) as they did in days of yore!

I meant to say "at numbers on a board" to nicely round off the comment. Ho hum, brain fade due to lack of afternoon intellectual challenge, perhaps?

They might do ok in the numbers round.

Be careful with that craft knife....

Oops!!!

Drilling holes through supports: Drill too big, knuckles scraped every time it broke through.

Use a smaller drill?

First album I ever listened to, and bizarrely have just been listening to it on the way back from Pontypool and Blaenavon's Gala.....

I kind of remember those DSOTM parties, or do I ...

Digs out pink vinyl quadraphonic album, volume up, neighbours annoyed.

It's curtains for that idea.

We've got a velux remote control blind. Never again....

Er no I would inevitably lose the handset

Are the flags at half-mast?

the 1% success rate

To be fair they successfully delivered to me as well today!

...it doesn't pierce your femoral artery if you drop it and catch it between your legs (ask Barry O of this parish).

...even the soft, warm butter resists.

(Difficult to choose an appropriate reaction to that, St Enodoc! Ouch!)

The ghosts of my life
Blew wilder than the wind

One of the great distinctive voices. And he can sing, which is quite a rarity.

I'm still attempting to lose some weight. I can't go round working on an empty stomach looking like a bungled entry for a stuff-a-cushion competition, can I?

Well done, lovely bit of smooth slow running

What it's all about.

No excuses now - crack on !

I tend to'find' what i've just lost most times if I go down on hands and knees and carefully feel for the object- slowly and methodically around the area where it was lost, if no luck then widen search area and repeat... you've got more chance of finding it on a tiled floor than if it were on carpet; it's a matter of dogged persistence, methodical searching - and luck!

I found it! 

So now I feel better about the original idea, which is why I was taking a tender apart in the first place. Will post more if it works out...

Is your name Doug?

At least with only one shovel you won't have to take your pick!

Walk over the carpet in your bare feet - it'll soon show up!

The stroke of midnight.

Whenever you want, it's YOUR chocolate (unless it is Ex-Lax or that really cheap cooking chocolate)

Someone I know of hands out chocolate-dipped Sprouts....

Suppose you will have 'shedloads' of railway there!

Oh shed! :-D

Shed = another 6 years on your life span according to some research years ago

It’d be a killer update if it were version 1701!

We're doomed!

Just done it. Went fine, no problems. Took about 30 mins though.