BlackRat

43 minutes ago, Bernard Lamb said:

That's a bit hard on Percival. He was only doing what he was told to do. In the end he disobeyed orders and surrendered in order to save lives, The map shows just why he had little choice. Many of the men died hating or suffered what was probably a worse fate and lived hating. It is only in the last few years that some of the truth has been revealed with the release of official documents. Much of what happened will never be made public. The IJA might well have arrived on bicycles but they had a heck of a lot of tanks to support them. Just how many did we have in Singapore? There was a small Indian unit that had old machines for training, but as for active combat units I believe the answer is a big fat zero.

Just for completeness dad was up by the race course at that time,

Bernard

Wasn't it something like 80,000 who were made to surrender?

British, Aussies and Indian troops.

You think he might have picked something up from Malaya, where over 40,000 were made to surrender.

We had a heck of a lot of men, amongst other things.

Absolute betrayal.

20 hours ago, cctransuk said:

 

Is there anything sold in the USA that does NOT have that warning on it?

 

John Isherwood,

Guns and ammo, tho in my experience, they can be bad for people's health and wellbeing.

1 minute ago, Geep7 said:

Yes. I tried this out myself when I first received mine. It's due to the decoder socket and blanking plate being in the DMBS.

Thanks........I thought as much, first thing I normally do with a new buy is to clean the wheels then run it in on the rollers......

After much head scratching, and taking to body off its the same conclusion, so will have to work out a plan B for wheel cleaning and running in.

Am I right in thinking, that for the second powered  end to work it HAS to be connected up as part of the three car unit. Tho 1 of the power cars works independantly?????

I just got the feeling the mag was full of...,,,fillers.

Understandable I guess, but 5 uses of wood?

Top five uses for wood......?

Hhhmmmmmmmm.

I don't go to my local newsagents to 'browse magazines', I go there to buy them.

Thats why they are still a thriving local business.

Great that the shops now open. Steve and Paul have  been busy and basically refurbished and reorganised the shop during lockdown.

A great range of all sorts and at great prices too.

If you've not been then I'd highly recommend it!

Great to see you back!

Only just caught this up, very sad news indeed! A real stalwartbof the SWAG show and one of the few to compliment my taste in shirts!

Youll be missed mate.

Greetings one and all, well it's all over, just waiting for the fat lady to sing.

Dozens and dozens of calls to the old bill re a veritable deluge of second home owners arriving, caravanners, camper vans etc all heading west.

Carparks full, beaches crowded and a number of water related incidents including a number of fatalities...... and it's still only May.

Happy days?

Neil sorry to hear about your friends wife, puts things into perspective.

As someone who has had to carry on regardless with work, public contact, no PPE etc I'm looking forward to being able to go and have a pint or three.

It hasn't made a difference to me, apart from restricting what I can do socially.

Funny how that doesn't apply when it comes to essential work.

Didn't turn out to bad after all, did it 

See you all next year xx

1 hour ago, Oldddudders said:

I can't speak for others, but if my "numbers" didn't make it into the "hat", I would neither know nor care. This isn't about winning but giving. 

If its anything like Taunton.....there is NO hat 

Im STILL working out how I ended up with a Railroad Warship 

Such a shame we can't all get together this year...... even more so as this years shirt was, shall we say, 'rather special!'

As I'm usually fleeced, sorry I mean persuaded to buy tickets, or bid for something I neither want or need in the auction, I'm delighted to be able to support the raffle.

Going to miss the usual gang of reprobates and rascals.

Stay safe all........ see you in 2021!

Nelly.

On 30/03/2020 at 00:53, The Johnster said:

O lord not this old chestnut.  The hobby is dying, the demographic is ageing, we must do more to attract young blood, and on and on and on.  I've been involved in the hobby in terms of taking a magazine and being more or less aware of what is going on and what the debates are since 1965, when I was 13 years old, and people were going on about the same thing back then, have continually gone on about it ever since, and probably did so before I was aware of it and will continue to do so long after I have ceased to be aware of anything except the worms.  The hobby, in the meantime, has largely ignored it all and gone from strength to strength; it is more popular now than ever and it's image has improved greatly.

It's gone ' from strength to strength' due to adults spending rather a lot of money on their hobby.

Sometimes serious money, 

I'm in my local Model Railway shop ( as that's virtually all it sells)  a couple of times a week.

Couple of hundred visits a year.

I could count on one hand how many 'youths' I've seen in there.

Even less under 10's.

58 minutes ago, NHY 581 said:

 

Something about Marines and sheep.... where's me shirt......I'm in!

Old school Victory V's....... grandad used to have big tins of them.

Used to blow your head off.......