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  1. John M Upton

    ...is building a load of NGS Vanwide kits and wondering what to do with all the spare roofs...

    1. scottystitch

      scottystitch

      Build two Vannarrows instead of one Vanwide?

  2. John M Upton

    ...is not on strike! I am on Rest Day though so am staying well out of the mad shenanigans....

  3. John M Upton

    'Remember the three 'S's, See it, Shug shoulders, Stuff it...'

    1. PhilEakins

      PhilEakins

      Pardon - what exactly is 'shug'? Is it PC?

    2. dvdlcs

      dvdlcs

      Ask a Scotsman, he'll know 'shug' - big and little.

  4. John M Upton

    "I'm leaning on the lamp post at the corner of the street, in case a certain little lady comes by..." Why have I been humming this for two days!?!

    1. DonB

      DonB

      Tunes are like jokes...the old ones are the best!!

    2. Garry D100

      Garry D100

      Not just you, now I have read it its in my head lol.

      "Oh me....Oh my...."

  5. John M Upton

    "Is there anybody there said the traveller knocking on the moonlit door..." just about sums up my day trying to get through to the Rosters Department!!!

  6. John M Upton

    A Bachmann Standard 3MT Tank just arrived... :¬)

  7. John M Upton

    A plethora of OO gauge stuff under N gauge on EBay tonight. It can't be that difficult to get it right surely???

    1. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      One model train looks much like another, right?

    2. Kris

      Kris

      Is it L N E R stuff?

  8. John M Upton

    According to my Hornby Magazine calendar, today is Mothers Day. Could have sworn that was last month...

    1. Coombe Barton

      Coombe Barton

      Mother's Day - US (and others) tradition - Mothering Sunday. Mothering Sunday - Christian tradition celebrated on the fourth Sunday in Lent.

    2. trisonic

      trisonic

      It's Mother's Day in the 'States......

    3. darren01

      darren01

      It's mothers day every day with my mum!

  9. John M Upton

    Ah, a Large Logo Class 56 at last but

    1. hybridangel77

      hybridangel77

      i agree.but why are Hornby locos so expensive?

  10. John M Upton

    All it took was a on a whim buying of one wagon kit, now I am addicted!!!

  11. John M Upton

    An interesting end to the day. My train, my passengers and I were at Three Bridges, our driver was at Victoria. Whoops...

    1. Mallard60022

      Mallard60022

      Did the units think they were Docklands LR sets?

  12. John M Upton

    Annoyed that the Royal Mail keep deleting my home county from my address!!!

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    2. Brit70053

      Brit70053

      They seem to deny that my County is a County

    3. waggy

      waggy

      Stockport County

    4. John M Upton

      John M Upton

      Kent seems to have vanished from their radar as well now!

  13. John M Upton

    Any particular reason why the Internet is so slow tonight?

    1. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      It even affected Freesat, so intermittent telly during the News at Ten!

    2. Tim Hall

      Tim Hall

      It's been taken over by Southern?

    3. Danemouth

      Danemouth

      The wet string it runs on has dried out?

  14. John M Upton

    Anyone else having problems with Flickr tonight? Seems to have gone completely Yahooey - i.e. nothing works properly!!

  15. John M Upton

    Arrgh snow, I only want it on the 25th and 26th so I can avoid the relatives and cancel Christmas altogether!!!!

    1. John M Upton

      John M Upton

      ...and they say miracles no longer happen!! :¬))

  16. John M Upton

    Arrrgh! My random playlist just started spewing Chris de Burgh 'Lady in Red'!! How the hell did that get in there???

    1. samkiller42

      samkiller42

      Was that over the tanoy system of the Southern Service to Littlehampton?

  17. John M Upton

    Arrrghhh - Wall to wall Christmas adverts on the TV - Spare me this commercialised sentalmentalist clap trap!!

    1. eastwestdivide

      eastwestdivide

      What gets me is mince pies in the supermarket in October with a sell-by date of November.

    2. Welly

      Welly

      Humbug!

  18. John M Upton

    As a newcomer to N gauge I have just one question. How on Earth have you lasted so many years nee decades without screaming with frustration over Rapido couplings? They are utter rubbish!!

    1. Kylestrome

      Kylestrome

      Change them for DGs.

    2. DavidLong

      DavidLong

      Agreed. DGs should be your new friend :-)

  19. John M Upton

    As I really could not care less about all this Jubilee nonsense, I shall be spending four days catching with some very overdue modelling projects!!

    1. cromptonnut

      cromptonnut

      Lucky you, we're decorating the bathroom.

    2. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      When RMWeb is 60 years old, perhaps we'll celebrate then?... ;-)

  20. John M Upton

    Awaiting lots of things but no postman has been seen hereabouts for nearly a week!!!

    1. Trainshed Terry

      Trainshed Terry

      Nothing new as my postman put my post in the wrong letter box.

    2. Jenny Emily

      Jenny Emily

      On the plus side: no bills.

  21. John M Upton

    Back from Ally Pally somewhat light in the wallet!!

  22. John M Upton

    Being ruthless tonight about old pots of paint that are really beyond salvage!!

  23. John M Upton

    Bent down to pick something up and my head hit the workbench, realised ten minutes later I have a streak of NSE red paint in my hair!!!

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    2. DonB

      DonB

      Spilt blood or spilt paint?

    3. Ed-farms

      Ed-farms

      Don't you know you should do the white first so it does not show the red underneath?

    4. St. Simon

      St. Simon

      You are going to paint the rest in early or revised livery?

  24. John M Upton

    Binmen have just turned up, right day and right time so no sign of any strikes around here!

    1. skipepsi

      skipepsi

      Binmen are mostly privatised these days poor s-ds

  25. John M Upton

    Blast. Only just discovered International Models has closed down!!!

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    2. John M Upton

      John M Upton

      Name and business sold to someone in Scotland who promptly made a total cock up of it and closed it down according to the RMWeb thread I just discovered.

    3. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Just another one in a growing litany of failures.

    4. sharris

      sharris

      Is that like International Rescue but better looking? (or so it seemed when I did a Google image search!)

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