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Sounds like a very superior mud anchor! Apart from that, none of those illustrated look very practical. Even the traditional Admiralty "fouled anchor" makes more sense...

Who shall have a fishy, on a little dishy? My expensive alternative to model railways is photography...

Snap! 😀 It'll be a bit of a buggr if the TXS chip is filled up with "God Save The King", if so the dilemma will be whether to leave it as original, or just copy the standard 66 TXS sound project over it...

Or a CQR for that matter...

I'd let them get away with it. We can then call them what we have traditionally called them.

Hornby have announced that the Coronation Chicken Special is now in the warehouse and will shortly be dispatched. The amazing thing is that this means that the model will actually arrive around the date that was initially announced! A pity they can't keep to schedule for other models...

Back. Jabbed, shopped, whacked... Now for a big muggatea! (and a biscuit)

Hey ho. Off to be jabbed....

They probably trained on Sir Dinadans...

Of course, pirates have always been unpleasant sea-going criminals. Unless they were in possession of authentic Letters of Marque, when they were unpleasant sea-going naval auxiliaries instead...

When I went to Uni, we didn't go around looking like the yoof of today. Mind you, we didn't look like Ken Barlow, when he first started in Corrie either!

I KNEW there was a reason for disliking them! 🤪🤪🤑

All I know of Billy IV is that a song about him was mentioned in Tom Browns Schooldays concerning a reduction of excise duty on beer during his reign... Now thats something to be remembered for!

If it were a choice between Turkey Twizzlers and cannibalism.....

Poor thing - she shouldn't have got in the way of Bloody Mary. But Queen Jane doesn't sound quite right....

Arrrrr!!!!

Nope, the Middle Ages is too complicated... 🤪

I can never remember the sequence between William (II) Rufus and Richard III though I do know that Richard Cour de Leon was after the Williams and Henry V must have been preceded by the multi-part Henry IV... I can then trot through the Tudor,Stuart and Hanoverian gang quite handily, which reminds me, Edward VI appears to be missing, a sickly youth between Henry VIII and Mary (Bloody) You see, if you think in Roman, the gaps start to show up. Unless they're the ruddy boring Angevians/Plantagenets... And perhaps for completeness, it should be George III (Mad)/ The Prince Regent. This is beginning to sound like 1066 and All That ...

That reminds me, I need to put them on todays shopping list...

The regnal names look odd without the Roman numerals...

With that quiff, it looks like an Elvis impersonator!

Thanks! All I can afford are the Lima/Hornby OO versions, though I've a selection of those ranging from "GWR" to BR Green with speed whiskers...

Get well soon! Was the omlette as good as it looks?

Niiiiiiiiice Pannier! The DMU looks like a conger eel waiting to pounce on its prey.... If anyone arranged a "do" for me, with a collection of display boards with photographic evidence, I'd do a 180 and leave.

Or keeping an eye open for this bloke in your rearview mirror... https://hero.fandom.com/wiki/Death_(Discworld)