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Hard to see- it is "Private"!

Great West Models I think for the maker

I wonder how many of these they will sell? http://www.citylab.com/navigator/2015/12/the-intricately-designed-wooden-train-set-you-should-have-gotten-for-christmas/421992/?utm_source=nl__link6_122815

All the fours - page # 4444 - Happy New Year everybody. Had a VERY hard frost here in the Land of the Northern Haggis - front drive is like a skating rink, and the rubbish bins are frozen shut

I was very pleased to see that ITVs "Beowulf" outshines by far in every department that appalling waste-of-space with U-Tread (aka Wooden-top the Viking/Saxon/Dane/Immigrant from somewhere). Uhtred of Bebbanburg is the protagonist and main character of the best selling Saxon Stories novel series by Bernard Cornwell and very poorly adapted for BBC television. "Beowulf" may well may yet well live up to the billing of " a successor to 'Game of Thrones' ", which was erroneously applied to the Bernard Cornwell series I'm looking forward to episode2, and I gather there are already plans for multiple series, with the "village/township set" still in place in Yorkshire, and the Hero having been asked to keep himself available for the next 5 years.. If the BBC quietly "BIN" the other thing I will be very pleased/won't be surprised.

I feel like that after a few .................

Try introducing the Langmyer-Lumreek equation too, or the Canard-Leigh De Witt theorem - those always go down well at Hogmanay parties

Current layout is an HO version of Jordans Portway Terminal - on 2 x boards 8" wide that clamp together in the centre. These boards consist of 2 boards each, that bolt together and are one @ 48" long and one @ 18" long t5herefore a total length of 66" x 2 or 11 ft overall. They sit on a pair of ironing boards (a much more sensible use for the things!) and are currently runnable track only with no scenery (which may well consist mainly of roads and backscene flats). I can't show you a trackplan as the original seems to have disappeared from his post on <TI Forum

Seriously Folks - if anyone wants to use it - Feel free 1 box from USA and another today - Jack has been a good boy this year! ( shHHHhh! no charges! )

Andrew - yes - it went to one exhibition at Inverness and then got overtaken by my usual problem of me becoming distracted by further thoughts and ideas - the track-plan makes for a very good switching layout though and was fun to operate in Lance Mindheim style (s-l-o-w-l-y-!). Have a great Christmas and New Year, everybody Best Jack

This might help http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/72979-sin-city-33rd-street-switching/ Post 24 US Highway signage here http://www.kurumi.com/roads/signmaker/index.html The signs were done with soldered brass tube for the post and sign supports - sign printed out and stuck to styrene sheet

The little buugers will almost certainly have vanished by the time you get into the loft, but I wish you luck! If you don't have success with the Traps - get a couple of plastic lids and some poisoned (blue) seed bait from your local ironmongers, before they shut for c*******s - we get the pitter-pat of little feet every year around October-time, and this solves it very nicely!

I just saw this and thought our GUITARISTS and BASS PLAYERS may find it of interest http://www.thelooploft.com/products/the-bundle-of-bass

Felt like it too!

That looks remarkably like the nudist beach at Pembrey Sands - but I suppose one beach looks much like another

Got caught in a "no warning" monsoon cloudburst in Belize - soaked to the skin in about 3 seconds flat - and it took about another 3 seconds to FILL my desert boots as though I'd just walked through a river - Mother Nature presents you with some almost unbelievable experiences at times! Never mind "trickling down ones Butt crack" - it was pouring out of the legs of my shorts!

Speaking of London as (originally) a Lununah frum sarf uv da riva (though I spent a good part of my formative years living north of it and loved the smoke), and now a resident of the Northern Highlands, I have to thank the RAF for sending me up here - and there is NO WAY ON THIS EARTH that I'd go back. There are a surprising number of people up here with Lunun accents who paid a visit on holiday, fell in love with it and (literally) never went back! Glasgow is fine for a visit, but not to live in.

I managed to get a long wheelbase V8 ex-Mil sideways across a single track road here in the Highlands en route to Durness, with high grass banks each side without marking either - got out to, discover the hard way, that the road was a solid sheet of ice and like wet glass - It had a winch fitted and we managed to haul it round to face the correct direction and continued the journey - the only damage was a small scratch on one bumper caused by the wire rope

FWIW mine dumped its charge overnight because the back door was not properly closed and left the dashboard warning light on - charging did sort it, and it hasn't been a problem since

My God! - whoever designed that had a twisted mind!

Unfortunately this may be a little too close to the truth World-wide telephone survey Last month, a world-wide telephone survey was conducted by the UN. The only question asked was:- "Would you please give your honest opinion about possible solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?" The survey was a complete failure—why? –because: In Eastern Europe, they didn't know what "honest" meant. In Western Europe, they didn't know what "shortage" meant. In Africa, they didn't know what "food" meant. In China, they didn't know what "opinion" meant. In the Middle East, they didn't know what "solution" meant. In South America, they didn't know what "please" meant. In the USA, they didn't know what "the rest of the world" meant. And in Australia , New Zealand , Canada , and Great Britain . . . everyone hung up as soon as they heard the Indian accent.

Always remember the advice " Don't eat yellow snow !" - I agree that a white dusting over the magnets and foot-prints would work well.