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Or "What do you get if you cross the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz with the Manneken Pis" - This!

What is green and goes red at the flick of a switch? A Frog in a Liquidiser (or as we know it, a frog juicer)

This photo appeared on Facebook today and is posted here with permission of the photographer Bob Faulkner It was taken at Mallaig on July 25th 1967 and I posted it on this thread as the prefix is interesting, capital S, small and unusually underlined c. Looks like an alteration has been made Jim

Going to California - Led Zeppelin

They're building a mirror factory in my town. I could see myself working there. I bought a mirror from my local funfair solely because it was so cheap. My wife says it reflects badly on me. Jim

I am the Walrus, or is it Ticket to Ride

The Rain Song - Led Zeppelin

This is an actual customer review for Veet for Men on Amazon.... https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R3GDDEL1SC1QQ5 Jim

Hi Andy/All - Well I am afraid to report that all that planning and woodworking from last year came to naught. My wife started to get homesick over Christmas and then her elderly Uncle fell ill and he now needs care, subsequently we decided to move back to Eaglesham and we are currently preparing for that move. We have bought a flat and I have been promised that the second bedroom is mine for layout construction. It will be nice to have the warmth and natural light of a room to model in, the space will not be as generous as the loft but we are still looking at 10ft by 8ft so I will be able to create something in that. I have done some initial outline planning but nothing concrete - I am waiting for the ink to be dry on the legal documentation before progressing to anything detailed as I have had too many false starts in the last two years. Looking at a terminus fiddle yard based around Gateside/Glagow Buchanan Street with some freight interest starting with the existing Allenshaw. Right now everything including the timber is in secure storage waiting for the move to be completed, currently the target date is 2nd July. Will give an update around then. Cheers Jim

Let There Be More Light - Pink Floyd

Hello, is that Home Depot Customer Services? This is not the Droid I was looking for!

or without the use of assessment forms, spreadsheets, risk factors etc, etc.

So are we saying Thomas is a class 68?

Thanks Mark - PM sent Found this surviving image on New Railway Modellers of Leith Baltic Street with Andrews pub sign (His is also a Tennant's Shop) https://www.newrailwaymodellers.co.uk/Forums/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=13639&start=540#p575179 I thought that there was something in the text that described how he illuminated it but I can't find it. Jim

This for me confirms an old memory. As a youngster around this period I used to stand on the bridge at Whifflet Junction Coatbridge spotting during the summer holidays and I have this memory of a passenger train going north which had a green, Blue grey, Maroon combination as its first three coaches. As it would not have been a Saturday I reckon now that I have probably seen this set as ECS heading north to Dundee to take up this working. I would think that the Britannia would have worked the train from Carlisle as by May 1967 the Scottish Region had finished with all internal steam working (except for the famous J36 at Seafield) and were trying to avoid steam workings in and out of the region from the LMR as most of the coaling and watering facilities had been closed. Derek Cross did photograph a few exceptions but recorded that any locos coming north had to be sent back as soon as possible, I would doubt very much if this loco had worked the train through from Dundee Jim

Starship Trooper - Yes

Hmm, the blue version or Railfreight Grey

My mates have a nickname for me, they call me "Steppenwolf". Maybe it's because I was born Toby Wilde. Jim

..and so it begins.

Are these your own scratch build, or bought? I wanted one for the pub on my tenament but couldn't find anything. Jim

Just for comparison with the real thing in similar condition..... Seen on Facebook today. Jim

Well it is something that Hornby would be able to provide a model of no problem, wonder if anyone consulted with the model companies before finalising the design? Jim

Beat The Clock - Sparks