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Another cold snap. The shiny leather thigh boots are out again. Sigh!

is wondering how to persuade Scarlett (13 days old) to sleep at night and play in the day rather than t'other way round.

had 40 winks in the car. Turned into an hour. Oops!

Found an old Nectar card and registered it. £50 to spend woo-hoo!

When they handed out the eyes, i thought that they said ties, so I asked for one of red and one of blue

..has been given notice again.

Back at 'work' with nothing to do. Contract bid in Nov has been lost, the grim reaper approacheth.

Still waiting for my line-manager to come into work to tell me what he has found for me to do

When I got a tray of coffees for my colleagues why did I have the urge to throw the mugs at their targets?

Thinks I will add the word 'nought' to my everyday vocabulary in place of the colonial 'zero'.

Tried 3 @moel shops' in the south midlands for a Peco LH Electrofrog code 100 point without success.

Laying track, listening to Genesis, growing my hair. Back to the '70's. Not half! pop-pickers!

Baby-sitting at LJ's house. Think I need a 'project in a box' cos this is going to be a regular gig.

Making my head spin rewriting WR WT 13 &15 (1950) to include the Bordesley-Stourhampton-Borchester-Felpersham line

Baby-sitting at LJ's house. Think I need a 'project in a box' cos this is going to be a regular gig.

Wiring up droppers, listening to Duran Duran (first LP). Nice little earner that, Tell.

Most of the North end of Stourhampton wired now. Need a job lot of Seep PM1 now. Two dozen at the last count

<==< has rats! Worse still they are a bit too close to Stourhampton.

Baby sitting at LJ's house. Think I need a 'project in a box' cos this is going to be a regular gigf.

Tried 3 'modelshops' in the south midlands for Peco Electrofrog Code 100 medium LH point without success today

Tried 3 'modelshops' in the south midlands for Peco Electrofrog Code 100 medium LH point without success today

Tis mine each passing hour to tell, tis thine to use it ill or well.

Tis mine each passing hour to tell, tis thine to use it ill or well.

In a rare moment of access to the telly, enjoyed 'Britain on Film', BBC4 last night

I'm amazed these caused such interest. I just pulled over on my way home on a whim because the factories had been levelled and the s.b. was visible, unemcumbered, for the first time. I'll go back and see if I can get the other sides of the station, I can't imagain it will be there for much longer. It goes to show we all have a duty to record the past before it gets lost forever.