BlackRat

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.

Greetings one and all.........Wonder if anyone can help........ please let me know what day/ month it is at the moment. Asking for a friend......as he doesn't know either! Stay safe!

Roof rack and bungees? For the passenger that is...... the extra board going on the front seat ......

I've used a black 'rip stop' type material cut into very thing strips bit like the warehouse door above......like a very floppy tooth comb. The top strip is affixed above the yard entrance/ exit with double sided tape and the material adjusted so it's just BELOW rail height. It works fine in 4mm so I can't see 7 being a problem. Ive addd an extra layer now, and another under the overbridge.

I shared a grot (room) with a heavy, nay very heavy smoker.......weighed about 5 stone wet but could run like the wind. He would smoke Old Holborn and 'Pussers' hand rolling in a pipe! He'd often smoke two at a time, whilst lying in bed to see him thru the night..... His fingers were the colour of Lucozade.....l We were delayed 'on board' on one exercise and he ran out of both fags and money........he nealrly had a breakdown through nicotine withdrawal...... which to us, his long suffering cabin mates was funny and long overdue. I wonder how my lungs fared with all that passive inhilatiion! No doubt he will live to be a hundred......his nickname was The Rotherham Stallion!

Didn't turn out to bad after all, did it See you all next year xx

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.

Greetings one and all, from a slightly overcast Kernow. I was once over paid by a cash point machine...... I went into the bank to report it and to give the money back. I spoke with a rather rude and abrupt individual who told me in no uncertain terms, I was wrong and I pressed the wrong button and got the wrong amount out. Again I tried to explain, was then patronised and told how good their equipment was and it was my fault. I remember a bit in The local rag not long after, how long que had formed at the machine....... "coz basically it's given out free dosh!" Unbuilt pile of kits is now a shadow of its former self........with a growing stack of finished painted models to weather. Even scratchbuilt a few using spare underframes I'd forgotten I'd had! No excuses, time isn't an issue! Stay safe one and all.

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.

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

Greetings one and all........ bit of a sad day.....,should currently be about to land in Gran Canaria but hey ho.......'tis only a holiday. I'm a regular at one of the best 'Indian' restaurants in the country....... the Nibana in Plimufff. I do love my Indian ( actually Bangladeshi ) food, and now get regularly invited to their family do's....... where we have 'proper' food eaten the 'proper' way. When I go now I don't bother with the menu...... I usually ask the chef to knock me something up......, hasn't failed yet. When the owners go back to Bangladesh.....they usually bring me back something special......, Once it was a Naga chilli...... which I promptly ate ( and suffered a bit) and when they came over I was advised it was to take home.....and to add a little at a time to home made dishses. I did manage almost a whole California Reaper....... hiccups stopped play! And believe it or not I don't really like hot food! More wagon resprays today.......l been buying private owners etc and repainting/ wheeling/ transfers etc which is keeping me busy. The aged pile of kits is getting progressively smaller to. Managing to get out on the bike a fair bit....,under the pretence of delivering prescriptions to the vulnerable and those in isolation....... almost 200 now. Every little helps. Stay safe!

Old school Victory V's....... grandad used to have big tins of them. Used to blow your head off.......

I've no idea where I'll be able to get a copy......but get one I will. You can sign it at the Cardiff show for me

Did anyone else love thick school custard with the yellow chewy lumps in it? If you were lucky you also got the skin...... which I still love!

Greetings one and all........Warm school milk...I can still remember the awfulness of it....the smell and taste made me wretch. Which reminds me of our dinner ladies....rouged cheeks, red Lips and whistles....... These harpies had been thru the war.....they new shortage alright so again we had to eat everything..... I still can't eat cooked apples, rhubarb or prunes!

Greetings one and all from an overcast Kernow........ Strange times....... we walk most days ( back probs have stopped us running) around the Tamar/ Lynher estuary, and usually can guarantee on not seeing a soul ...... now it's like everyone is in training for the Duke of Edinburghs award! People still driving to walk dogs ( including an ex plod Superintendent....which just confirms my long held opinion of plod hierarchy) and generally not keeping their distance. Off to the pharmacy in a mo ..... volunteered to deliver prescriptions.....if only to get me out and on the bike for a bit of fresh air and to keep the bike ticking over. Put up some Christmas lights yesterday......across the front of the house, they are the old style ( never chuck anything away) and the small bulbs can be swapped over. Luckily I have a big bag of spare bulbs ( see never throw anything away) of different hues and today's task, amongst others will be to swap some of the white bulbs for blue....... so we will have a blue/ white 'support the NHS' string of flashing bulbs. Bit of a pointless futile exercise but still....... every little helps. My very best to all, keep well and stay safe.

Working from home...... ComCen all up and running..... clever stuff this teknologee! Message from buddy....... he was working from home as well....... in the nude! Why? ........ "Because I can!" Other Oppo sailed a couple of weeks ago on a big 'uge Sub. With luck he'll return pastie faced and oblivious..... as per norm. Stay safe one and all. X

I have one without a burner....... anybidea where I might get one from?

Replace all supermarket trollies with baskets....... problem sorted.

The head of our 6th predicted I was the most likely to 'do time'..... the fact I ended up as Plod with numerous awards etc speaks volumes At a reunion a few years ago......I bumped into our former head girl. I wondered if she had become a captain of industry etc or whatever, as predicted....... She, like me had fulfilled her lifetime ambitions........ mine to join the R.M. And to become a plod motorcyclist (A Blackrat). Hers was to marry a rich old fool!! !!

So wrong....... I was predicted to fail O level geography..... I got an A, and a B in geology and biology where i was predicted to get a C or D. My best wishes to them and I hope that the hard work they put in pays dividends.....

Generic Greetings one and all. Nice message from the local model shop........ so off I go today to get me bits and kits which should see me nicely occupied with lots of modelling if I have to 'self isolate' whatever that is......self abuse I get 1 holiday looking grim (Canaries in 5 weeks) but still hopeful for Europe on the Bike in June and America with the family in August. Gotta be positive! I still don't get the panic..... W.H.O. Figures say between 250,000 and 650,000 die annually as a result of one form of influenza or another...... we don't get hysterical then. And as I am in the vulnerable and at risk category I find it mind boggling that usually all I get annually is the offer of a flu jab. Work has gone in panic mode.....whatever happened to the solid, unflappable plod? I'm glad I only 'work' 15 hours a week....... I have been advised I can work from home ( my job entails technical security for victims of crime and violence which entails face to face home visits) as some numpty has made a 'decision to protect' me........ so hows that going to work eh? Theres NO sanitiser, hand wash or masks available to the plod.....they have been advised to improvise wearing 'spit hoods'...... think of something akin to panty hose knicks! Still there's a Bachhy 25 to convert to a Scottish 24, a 14 to strip and get running properly, numerous PD kits to build, weathering to be done and then........ the best form of self isolation......getting out on the bike! Stay safe one and all. xx

Let's hope......in a couple of weeks..... the topic will be about a massive global over reaction akin to mass hysteria. In the meanwhile........Stay safe and well everyone........ get started on that layout/ stack of kits/ weathering/ tidy up/track laying....... etc etc etc.