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Dom, I hope they don't pressurise you to keep to timetables. It is a major problem for the drivers of road commercial vehicles in this country, especially for certain employers, with an obvious effect on safety. Ed

A couple of Brush 4's in Asda Stevenage yesterday at 7.30 ish. Ed Sorry jcm, missed your post. Obviously no-one was that desperate to get one!

I suspect that the damage was caused by Dapol having to take every model out of the packaging to fix the TV interference problem. I can't imagine they were too pleased to have to do this. Ed

Which President said that if English was good enough for Jesus then it's good enough for you? Ed

I've got 2 or 3 issues of that mag, but nothing about modelling, or was it a separate supplement? I met Hugh several times, he was a lovely man. Ed

How can you tell? Ed

Unnecessary Pete. Ed

Last time I looked the south shed was in reasonable order and in use, the north shed seems to be falling into disrepair. I was very close on the DSA test track at the rear of the site. Ed

Give them one chance to fix it and tell them you will reject the car if they don't. Ed

Hi Rick. Wouldn't the power cars need to be in pairs as they can't work aren'tallowed to work backwards Ed

I find that if the other traffic is doing 40 and I am doing 70 I hit the hold-up before them. Ed

Thanks for that. Mighty impressive. Ed

There could be worse hairy bits to get solder in. Ed

Nice idea that it is, I can't see that keeping a dedicated pool of 43's to work the sleeper would be worthwhile. I would think that the cost of wiring the coaches alone would be prohibitive. You would need six? loco's which would be unique and not suitable for other work. Ed

and a turntable might be useful Ed

You You could politely suggest that if she helped to move baseboards she wouldn't need to go to fat club. Ed

Well done Dom. I think we all knew you'd pass. Good luck with the next stage, it's just lovely to get these positive posts from you every day. Ed

Thanks Mike, that's interesting. I remember my Dad telling me about the "Scots system" many years later (we bought in Dumfries in 65 and sold in 68). You will be aware that we English did try to get surveys as part of a "seller's pack" and a friend of mine spent quite a lot of money training to be a surveyor. Of course we ended up with a dog's breakfast and we must have "energy reports" but, AFAIAA nowt else. Ed

Can we fix it? I thought that under the Scots system it was advisable to have surveys and preliminary legal work done before making an offer on the grounds that the offer was a contract? Ed

...and the new 009 L & B range, and 0 gauge settrack... Ed

Evenin,all. On a lighter note, I've just watched a TV programme about holidays in the Lake District. I got cross because I thought it was not possible to find such an awful bunch of people. I then decided they were actors, and I'd been right in the first place. The black humour thing. When I was in the cardiac unit having had an MI, I was woken up by the sounds you hear every week in "Casualty" from behind the curtains around the next bed. The pumping of the chest, the charging and zapping, injection of adrenalin and the eventual "are we all agreed?" and "time of death". There were some first year doctors (I later found out) chatting and joking about what they had had for breakfast while this was going on. This really upset me, and it got worse when the patient's family arrived soon after. One of the nurses took the time to tell me that this was probably the first death the young doctors had been at, and that it was a coping mechanism. Ed

Next Monday is a Bank Holiday for most of you lucky workers. It will be the same old same old for us poor pensioners-we never get a break. Ed

I'm guessing that legislation is forcing changes to the chemical contents of paints and hence the changes in colour and performance. Certainly the case with automotive paints. Ed

The first radio news report I heard this afternoon said that the plane broke the sound barrier and flew supersonic past the crowd before pulling into a "loop-the-loop". I did wonder. As Richard says, let's wait for the results of the inquiry. Thoughts are with the bereaved and injured, hope the pilot recovers. Ed

Hi Chris, not seen you here before? Welcome. Ed