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Black Marlin

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  1. The lacerations of 2020 continue into 2021. It has to get better at some point... doesn't it?

  2. Botheration! I think I've cocked up half my waterfall, and will need to redo the left-hand side. This postpones my next Girtby Sea update...

    1. Black Marlin

      Black Marlin

      Haud the bus: I may be able to save it, with some judicious use of cotton wool. I'll find out tomorrow whether it's worked or not...

  3. Spent 4-and-a-half hours bent over the baseboard painting, and now my back wishes to make a complaint... 

  4. Struck down with tennis elbow. What nonsense is this?

    1. Black Marlin

      Black Marlin

      Thanks for the information and advice. Fortunately ibuprofen and rest have worked wonders and the arm is back under control :-)

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  5. Is the term 'pharmacy' now more common than 'chemist?'

    1. Black Marlin

      Black Marlin

      Apparently chemists (i.e. people who work with chemicals) got annoyed that pharmacists (i.e. people who work with chemicals that have medicinal properties) were suggesting a level of general chemical knowledge that they don't have, and some pressure was brought to bear to encourage high-street chemists to stop misrepresenting their level of chemical knowledge and make explicit that their expertise referred exclusively to pharmaceuticals...

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  6. 1st Bullhead point ordered. I estimate I will need 15 of them. Ouch...

    1. Black Marlin

      Black Marlin

      I intend on using Code 100 in the fiddleyard; it's the sheer number of points that's going to cause the problems. It won't be 1x 40' fiddleyard: it will be, essentially, 4x consecutive 10' fiddleyards, one for each running line...

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  7. 1st Bullhead point ordered. I estimate I will need 15 of them. Ouch...

    1. Black Marlin

      Black Marlin

      I'm only using BH points in the scenic section - believe me, every point I can move off-scene I have shifted, and I wince in anticipation of the bill for a 4-track through-running fiddleyard...

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  8. My layout of a lifetime, Girtby Sea, now has a thread of its own. Looking forward to the next few years...

    1. Black Marlin

      Black Marlin

      Thanks, TM; it's going to take a while...

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