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Morning DD - I'll try - just about to hoof-it down to the supermarket - may taxi back depending on the purchase quantity - but it is for sure that I'm not taking the car out of the garage!

No snow overnight in the land of the Midnight Haggis - so no shovelling this morning - hooray! However, in its place we have an absolutely VICIOUS frost - yesterday morning it was -13C in Inverness at 0900 - if they told me it is -20C this morning, I wouldn't be the least surprised.

Although they pick up on both bogies and have traction tyres on two wheels on the driving bogie - the Bachman UE chassis might do what you want. They resond well to a bit of lead flashing stuck inside the roof . my boxcabs weigh in at 400 grams each

I finished clearing (again!) the paths of the three or four inches since yesterday and it has promptly dumped another inch in the last hour. I haven't seen or heard ANY vehicles down our road today. Allegedly no traffic is moving on the A9 north of Perth - I gather that many motorists spent the night in their cars in the Dunblane area - but that is on the Perth-Glasgow stretch.

Tell her to take very dark sunglases and a baseball hat - otherwise she will probably be riding home with her eyes closed - speaking from experience!

Did I read that sign right? In an office: TOILET OUT OF ORDER...... PLEASE USE FLOOR BELOW In a Laundromat: AUTOMATIC WASHING MACHINES: PLEASE REMOVE ALL YOUR CLOTHES WHEN THE LIGHT GOES OUT In a London department store: BARGAIN BASEMENT UPSTAIRS In an office: WOULD THE PERSON WHO TOOK THE STEP LADDER YESTERDAY PLEASE BRING IT BACK OR FURTHER STEPS WILL BE TAKEN In an office: AFTER TEA BREAK STAFF SHOULD EMPTY THE TEAPOT AND STAND UPSIDE DOWN ON THE DRAINING BOARD Outside a secondhand shop: WE EXCHANGE ANYTHING - BICYCLES, WASHING MACHINES, ETC. WHY NOT BRING YOUR WIFE ALONG AND GET A WONDERFUL BARGAIN? Notice in health food shop window: CLOSED DUE TO ILLNESS Spotted in a safari park: ELEPHANTS PLEASE STAY IN YOUR CAR Seen during a conference: FOR ANYONE WHO HAS CHILDREN AND DOESN'T KNOW IT, THERE IS A DAY CARE ON THE 1ST FLOOR Notice in a farmer's field: THE FARMER ALLOWS WALKERS TO CROSS THE FIELD FOR FREE, BUT THE BULL CHARGES. On a repair shop door: WE CAN REPAIR ANYTHING. (PLEASE KNOCK HARD ON THE DOOR - THE BELL DOESN'T WORK)

Congratulations - that is a very nice looking little loco

Not to rain on your parade, but I'd suggest that your ship needs to be about twice the size in each dimension This may help http://www.paulashob...ontainer/Detail. The real things are huge,even a model 30" long would be small, and if those are 20' containers yours only looks to scale about 210' long the bottom item here may be of interest http://www.tophobbyt...=3&SeriesID=363 and on here http://www.bizrate.c..._start--20.html along with http://www.all-model...ead.php?t=11027 and http://www.matts-pla...art1/links.html I also found this http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/1853

Stewart, I see a wall-chart calendar and a diary in your future to keep you on-track!

Sorry to drag this up from the bottom of page 1 in the thread, but............ look at http://teamtrack.xoo...tation-en-O.htm pages 1 and 2 , for Office furniture and equipment (In French but Google will translate). Granted this is O gauge but there are some prints of cupboards, etc, that could be saved and rescaled - some incredible model making, and no commments about "eyeCandy please!

Thanks John - an interesting way of doing it! Jack

John - that looks really good - pray tell, what did you use to form the storm drain? Is it simply cut out and then polyfilla'd, or have you used something else?

BLONDES A blonde & her husband are lying in bed listening to the next door neighbor's dog.. It has been in the backyard barking for hours & hours. The blonde jumps up out of bed and says, "I've had enough of this". She goes downstairs. The blonde finally comes back up to bed and her husband says, "The dog is still barking, what have you been doing?" The blonde says, "I put the dog in our backyard, let's see how THEY like it! ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Two Blondes With Hammers... Lynn & Judy were doing some carpenter work on a Habitat for Humanity House. Lynn was nailing down house siding, would reach into her nail pouch, pull out a nail & either toss it over her shoulder or nail it in. Judy, figuring this was worth looking into, asked, ' Why are you throwing those nails away?' Lynn explained, 'When I pull a nail out of my pouch, about half of them have the head on the wrong end & I throw them away.' Judy got completely upset & yelled, 'You moron! Those nails aren't defective! They're for the other side of the house!' +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Did you hear about the two blondes who froze to death in a drive-in movie? They had gone to see 'Closed for the Winter' +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ You might have to think twice about this one. A blonde hurried into the emergency room late one night with the tip of her index finger shot off. 'How did this happen?' the emergency room doctor asked her. 'Well, I was trying to commit suicide,' the blonde replied. 'What?' sputtered the doctor. 'You tried to commit suicide by shooting off your finger?' 'No, slly' the blonde said. 'First I put the gun to my chest, & then I thought, 'I just paid $6, 000.00 for these implants... I'm not shooting myself in the chest.' 'So then?' asked the doctor. 'Then I put the gun in my mouth, & I thought, 'I just paid $3,000.00 to get my teeth straightened I'm not shooting myself in the mouth.' 'So then?' 'Then I put the gun to my ear, & I thought: 'This is going to make a loud noise. So I put my finger in my other ear before I pulled the trigger. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ A blonde was driving home after a game & got caught in a really bad hailstorm.. Her car was covered with dents, so the next day she took it To a repair shop. The shop owner saw that she was a blonde, so he decided to have some fun... He told her to go home and blow into the tail pipe really hard, & all the dents would pop out. So, the blonde went home, got down on her hands & knees & started blowing into her tailpipe.. Nothing happened.. So she blew a little harder, & still nothing happened. Her blonde roommate saw her & asked, 'What are you doing?' The first blonde told her how the repairman had instructed her to blow into the tail pipe in order to get all the dents to pop out. The roommate rolled her eyes & said, 'Uh, like hello! You need to roll up the windows first.' +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ These are just too cute not to pass on!!!! A blonde was shopping at Target & came across a shiny silver thermos. She was quite fascinated by it, so she picked it up & took it to the clerk to ask what it was. The clerk said, 'Why, that's a thermos..... It keeps hot things hot, And cold things cold.' 'Wow, said the blonde, 'that's amazing....I'm going to buy it!' So she Bought the thermos & took it to work the next day. Her boss saw it on her desk. 'What's that,' he asked? 'Why, that's a thermos..... It keeps hot things hot & cold things cold,' she replied.. Her boss inquired, 'What do you have in it?' The blond replied..... 'Two popsicles & some coffee.' +++++++++++++ AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST A blonde goes into work one morning crying her eyes out. Her boss asked sympathetically, 'What's the matter?' The blonde replies, 'Early this morning I got a phone call saying that my mother had passed away.' The boss, feeling sorry for her, says, 'Why don't you go home for the day? Take the day off to relax & rest.' 'Thanks, but I'd be better off here. I need to keep my mind off it & I have the best chance of doing that here.' The boss agrees & allows the blonde to work as usual. A couple of hours pass & the boss decides to check on the blonde. He looks out from his office & sees the blonde crying hysterically... 'What's so bad now? Are you gonna be okay?' he asks. 'No!' exclaims the blonde. 'I just received a horrible call from my sister. Her mother died, too!'

Paddy was waiting at the bus stop with his mate when a lorry went byloaded up with rolls of turf. Paddy said, 'I gonna do that when I win der lottery' 'What's dat, says his mate. 'Send me lawn away to be cut'.

http://tv.muxlim.com/video/oQK13UM3YzI/hold-your-plums-wasy-question-about-left-hand-drive/

Apologies - Then £8.00 fee refers to the Post Office - PF obviously have their own charging system!

As I mentioned elsewhere, the Parcelforce £8.00 fee is because, before the package leaves the customs area, the fee has to be paid. This means that PF have already paid the customs charge IN FULL, and the fee is to cover the recovery of your payment to their coffers plus the lack of interest in their money.

.......But it is too cold for them to breed! - not like those damn wire coat-hangers in the wardrobe!

Shades of a certain Peter Sellers! " Give us a bash.....!"

I hope the winning bidder turns up to collect it !