Canal Digger

What no Maths, English ....?

The bit of the Countryside Code that I like and do my very best to adhere to is 'leave only footprints, take only memories (photographs allowed)'.

Seeing as you have given us permission Sir, how do you know? Well nobody else was going to ask ...

When I recently bought this 3-car set, I thought that they were Micromodels (or similar) but I can find no mention of these models anywhere and a couple of the lines [around the windows] are 'less than professional'. They appear to be hand/ ruler drawn and coloured, rather than printed and have a wooden (Balsa?) core, extending to include the bogies. Metal 'hook & eye' couplings. Cab windows have been cut out. Research so far, suggests that they are models of the 1905 London B Stock as used on the District Line, so strictly speaking Sub-surface rather than Underground, as I understand the subtle difference.

Why not turn this around? This layout for SWMBO3 might be interesting at some of the local French shows alongside your metre gauge layout, of course 'the owner' would have to go as well. But, in you making your case to go to these shows to SWMBO1, you explain that how Emily wants to show her layout, so you have to take it and while there is room in the car you can squeeze in your layout alongside.

Isn’t it (wasn’t it?) against the dentists code of ethics to remove perfectly healthy teeth? I don’t see that as being acceptable dental practice in many other countries. From what I have read (sorry can't supply ref) calling them Dentists would have a bit of an overstatement, more like barbers with a sideline in tooth extraction. As in Sweeny Todd but not to the extent of the pies!

Yes, I to remember when living in Bristol, being taken to the Victoria Rooms in the 60s, then later to a show in Swindon, by car. Tried to get daughters into model trains by taking them at 6 weeks old, to the show in the Watershed, where I helped Wessex Armchair Modellers operate their layout, that failed, their interest I mean. Son was interested for a while.

from msn.com, who picked up a My London news item [I've tried to copy & paste the link but no luck] I very much doubt that anyone one in London will see Aurora Australis tonight, Northern Lights if lucky! MyLondon Follow 40.2K Followers Aurora Australis to be visible in UK tonight - here's the best place to see it Story by Jake Holden • 4h • 2 min read From a few days ago, somehow stuck in my editor??

I would have said that a 'water heater thingy' was too heavy for Ramrod to lift just yet. However lifting a model loco out of it's box and placing on track, sounds like good therapy

Being taught to enjoy anything artistic (music or paintings) is never going to work, least of all to kids who would rather be outside. You have to want to hear/ see more, either it 'clicks' or it passes you by. As someone said 'Education is wasted on the young'. I now enjoy doing maths puzzles, as a kid hated the subject. I have a wide taste in music, however one slightly strange thing is Musical Theatre, have watched some of the 'classic' film musicals, which left me cold, watched (or got involved backstage locally) the same musical live, fantastic! Is it an emotional thing, where you are involved?

Andy, you will have to tell us what it is, video is 'not available'. Tony beat me to it!

It's getting to be hard work keeping up here!

from msn.com, who picked up a My London news item [I've tried to copy & paste the link but no luck] I very much doubt that anyone one in London will see Aurora Australis tonight, Northern Lights if lucky! MyLondon Follow 40.2K Followers Aurora Australis to be visible in UK tonight - here's the best place to see it Story by Jake Holden • 4h • 2 min read

My sixpennyworth ... A few years ago we did part of the Irish Wild Atlantic Way, in a campervan hired from Dublin. Made our way up to the NE corner and worked our way anti-clockwise until we ran out of time part way down the west coast. Then back to Dublin, back into our car, south to Rosslare via beautiful Wicklow Mts, caught ferry to Fishguard and M4 etc to home. The worst part, the depressing, mile after mile, village merging into village, Ribbon Development in County Donegal. Empty, modern bungalows, low maintenance gardens, tightly drawn curtains. Luckily in the van we could see beyond these 2nd homes but if you were in a car, hard luck. Local economy = lawn cutting

Sign outside a local Nursing Home ....