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Cool The Engines - Boston (Third Stage)

Set The Controls For The Heart of The Sun - Pink Floyd

Hold Your Head Up - Argent

In the 70's and early 80's if you sat behind the driver in the early morning DMU (07:42 ex Worcester) and he didn't have the blinds closed you could often watch him make repeated attempts to start recalcitrant engines. When this failed, a brief pause at Droitwich box would be taken to tell the bobby to telephone ahead to ready the bankers.

I would think about a fine nylon filament fixed upright in the middle of the track. High enough to engage with the coach axle. Thicker fishing line or similar. Barely visible, and easily overcome by locomotive power. Experiment with different thicknesses and let us know how you get on.

How Much Love - Leo Sayer

Dance Away - Roxy Music

..... on a trimphone.

Unnoticed. Except that it's my mums birthday. She would have been 91.

In the uk we have firms who have machines called stump grinders. Stop sniggering at the back! You boys!

Three Minute Hero - The Selecter

For some reason, it is now policy for developers of housing estates to install all the electricity mains around the site before any houses or roads are built and energise them. What usually happens is the diggers doing the footings and kerbs strike the mains, plunging any connected properties into darkness. When finished, the new piece of network ends up with more joints than Bob Marleys funeral.

It turns out my guess at the cause was wrong. The school is on a generator, which had failed.

Privatisation of the electricity distribution industry has brought forth some really deformed children.

When You're Smiling -

Ole' Blue Eye

Aditi was having a chat with Emma, mother of the tiny nieces today. Niece Maya goes to a school that at the moment is in the middle of nowhere but one day will be surrounded by new houses. Well today there was a total power failure. The school must subscribe to one of the parental text services as at the end of her morning surgery Dr Emma had about 30 texts asking parents to collect their child from school. I assume the system didn't progress to the next alternate number. Anyway she couldnt go as she had patients to visit and Maya's Daddy was still seeing his patients. So Emma rings her Dad and asks him to collect Maya as he has on other occasions. When he gets there Maya informed him the school had tried to hand her over to another parent! She had been told her Daddy was here and taken out to the parent of a girl called Maja. The parent didn't get a chance to explain to the teaching assistant as Maya was loudly announcing to the world "That is NOT my Daddy".

For some reason, it is now policy for developers of housing estates to install all the electricity mains around the site before any houses or roads are built and energise them. What usually happens is the diggers doing the footings and kerbs strike the mains, plunging any connected properties into darkness. When finished, the new piece of network ends up with more joints than Bob Marleys funeral.

Man, I feel like a woman- Shania Twain

My therapist told me that a great way to let go of your anger is to write letters to people you hate and then burn them.

I did that and I feel much better, but I am wondering, should I keep the letters.?

In a Big County- Big Country

Had to get my pet Lizard some Valium as he's been a bit stressed out lately.

Now he's a calmer calmer calmer chameleon.

Run to Me - Bee Gees

Although the rail height is very much over scale, the sleeper spacing of Super 4 is actually nearer to scale than System 6 or Peco Setrack or Streamline.

Now Is The Time - Jimmy James and the Vagabonds

In Jamaica you can get a steak and kidney pie for £1.75, a chicken and mushroom pie for £1.60 and an apple pie for £2.15.

In St Kitts and Nevis a steak and kidney pie will cost you £2, a chicken pie (without mushrooms) is £1.70 and a cherry pie can be yours for £1.95.

In Trinidad and Tobago, that steak and kidney pie comes in at £2.50, but you can two for £3.50, while the chicken and mushroom pie is £2.25, or two for £3.25. They also offer meat and potato pie for £2, or two for £3. Their apple pies and cherry pies are often sold for £2.75, or two (any combination) for £4.75.

Those are the Pie rates of the Caribbean.

I think there will be two sorts of vehicles on the road. Autonomous cars and cars which people drive. Released from the need to be practical, car designers will be able to give their imaginations full reign on the latter.

One Day I'll Fly Away - Randy Crawford

How about checking along the former line for similar bridges which might be extant. Contractors might have used the same design elsewhere.

Going Underground - Jam