cromptonnut

buy as a guest each time...

Err I'm not even going to admit what I have spent.

I've used plenty of other shops in that time, it's just that Hattons give you the order history.

I still have mine, in a vial buried somewhere in storage.

Some sort of AI backup?

A friend went to Hungary. about half price dental work.= No pain plus I loco?

Same place as where I've left the attachment for the hoover (ie the last place where I had it)

You lent to someone

Of course, having bought a replacement, the "lost" one will immediately turn up.

Your lucky it was RM as their handling fee of

A lot depends on which state the goods are supplied from, some states have local taxes and some don't. As someone who works for Royal Mail I can testify that the system to us seems a little hit and miss, I've seen packets with goods worth

Graham Walters, I agree with you on your statement.

Well done! Hope you enjoy your time. Report back, you hear?

Great stuff. Jealous, me? I still miss it. Good on ya.

Congrats mate, hope it all works out for you. Like Pete 75C, I still miss the job too.

@Kylestrome

Try guarding a 'Santa Special' for a day - I now hate ALL popular Christmas songs!

Oh, supermarkets playing festive pop tat for weeks on end, arghhh

The roads clogged up by people going into town or other retail outlets desperately trying to find things that they could/ should have bought online and had delivered. Grr...

This is a chemist not a model railway shop.......etc.

Tennents used to be a chemist that sold model railways, now just model railways

So they were Tennents Extra in those days.

Why not? That sort of thing can land you a Turner prize...

Does it hurt as much when stepped on?

Oh yes </churchill voice>

Does it include Clag?

Ooh look, something the size of a Class 37 has just come into view between the sheets...

Carrying a big stick, eh?

I have no idea what I sound like when I'm sleeping. Probably a Toyota Pious.

A Toyota Pious - is that the new Popemobile?

The Pope has a secondhand Renault 4 that's been at least twice round the clock. His official car is a Ford Focus.

would that be shellac?

Even cylinder maybe; and get down, Nipper!

Make mine a double Tim I could do with geting shellaced...

Well £3k might seem a lot, but its only 15 Hornby Princess Coronations at list price...

A bargain!

good size. (plus expandable into the garden for longer runs.)

That should keep you out of trouble for a while, look forward to the updates..

Which platform was it at to do that ? Usually they use 2 and it’s usually well up the exit end of the platform out of any sensors way.

Not Rocket science to have the loco as far up the platform as possible to avoid smoke.

Err this was on the return TO Victoria? Parking the loco beyond the canopy would have left customers walking on 3rd rail!

Yep, there's always some nutjob waiting to complain about something - one of my colleagues had a complaint that it was raining and if the bus had arrived on time not 3 minutes late it might not have been raining when she got off. I kid you not :-/

Some of them are on this Forum too.

Nothing here for me

halfwit, that's the only way I got permission to go for an N gauge project - the only layout building space currently available is part of the living room, so I need to make it exhibition standard with fascia etc to be able to get away with it being up all the time!

Life is much easier if you only build locos, an old bureau for a workbench and a display cabinet suffices.

Agreed but that wouldn't satisfy me

Abbandona la speranza tutti voi che entrate qui

Il suo ispettore Montalbano! Un buon guev della polizia

Achtung! Turen schliessen. Vorsicht bei der Abfahrt!

Just put all your old used socks and pants in your ruck sack you should be OK....

You'll probably get away with it just this once but don't ake a habit of it or you may risk raising the tone of the hobby.

And I thought it was only me that had gone nose blind at such events

Agree, it's just common courtesy. I guess it's what happens when you are no longer a 'valued employee' but simply a 'human resource' that can be replaced like an obsolete piece of equipment

I asked an employer local to me if he had any job vacancies and he said "well I did have, but there were over 300 applicants, so I dumped over 200 straight in the bin without looking at them" I think it's depressing these days, with too many employers paying minimum wage, even o

n Sundays !

Sounds about par for the course, these days.

ok I remeasured and it's 31.5" x 16", apologies... now, N is an obvious option, don't have American HO, but have just sound fitted my O gauge Dapol 08... could I really satisfy myself in O in that space though? Maybe the Setrack O gauge points may come in handy?

Hmm 15" each for a setrack point makes 30" for a crossover... doesn't give a lot of fun on a 31.5" board.

Just model the inside of a two road shed...

Are they RTR legs? If so, you're just a box-opener... you should at least weather them.

Some people me included take years to get that far....

That may have something to do with having to climb a kit mountain first....

How about Cyrille Regis that'll confuse 'em !

A layout called Regiside?

I've sort of set myself in the wartime period with the purchases I have so unless I model it as 'preserved' I am a bit stuck.

I spoke to a guy the other day via their live chat about my order and was told they were behind by a couple of days at the warehouse.

Interestingly I've just had the same response from them about being behind in the warehouse. If it's in stock (as Hattons claim everything is) then you expect a fairly quick turnaround.

We're also now in summer holiday season when most businesses suffer from staff shortages due to annual leave in addition to other abscences

Why is it their fault, not yours for choosing somewhere that could be obscured?

It was either where I was, or with the great crowds on the other platform with a mostly obscured shot with heads in the way - either way I lost. But now, having seen some other people's photos from around Redhill I know exactly where to go next time

Alex Salmond ?

I remember seeing some (presumably) Young Farmers attempting to urinate off a tailgate on the M4

S'not funny !

This amused me!

Tea, Father?

All the best to you.

Stick to the good bits and see if you can raise a smile.