Captain Kernow

Nor do I, matey!

This is not an LMS engine...

So some young men from a northern part of the country are half-way to their destination?

Is this some kind of sporting reference?

Just waiting for me to say that I don't need my modelling chair any more...

A track level view, taken today. Signal box still not permanently in place, however. What seems to be a board crossing is actually a wooden walkway for the signalman to collect the single line token from a train coming from Coalpit Heath West Jct. The line onwards towards Westerleigh Yard North is double track (permissive block).

We grind a daily pill up in a pestle and mortar and mix it with his breakfast. He wolfs it down, this being the time of day when he's most hungry... (these pills are pain killers, for his arthritis). Personally, I'd be somewhat reticent about giving our cats sedatives for what seems to be a non-medical reason... Whatever the background to him becoming part of your family, you're giving a loving home to a cat and that's no bad thing. Never complain, never explain.

Very discreet, matey. That's the way to do it.

So could I. They ran on the Somerset & Dorset, you know...

My current car doesn't have a CD player. It has one of those computer type sockets, but I've yet to work out if I can put some music on a memory stick and play it in the car. I haven't even worked out if you can pre-set the DAB radio stations.... If I don't like what's on, I have to wait until I'm stationary and change it manually. Looking at the manual, with about a trillion, gazillion pages, just makes me loose the will to live...

If I was still doing passenger services, I would probably opt for 2-D paper or card figures, printed on a computer printer, as per a (relatively) recent article in MRJ.

Our two used to go out and we eventually kept track of their movements with GPS trackers. But even this didn't stop the younger one from occasionally getting injured. They now have the run of the house and the back garden only, which has products from this excellent company fitted - https://katzecure.com/ The company are based locally to us, but they work all over the country.

There's an amusing story that I associate with a Dyna-Drive fitted loco, but it may not have been the actual Dyna-Drive, but a home-brewed similar set-up. The loco belonged to my friend and fellow club member Brian Harrap and was usually used on his lovely Quai 87 layout (P87). It certainly had (has) a large fly wheel and driving it takes a bit of getting used to, especially the stopping of it. Brian was also friend with the late Iain Rice, who I understand was exhibiting his 'Bodesmeer' layout at the same exhibition. I understand that Iain asked Brian to borrow this loco for a turn on 'Bodesmeer'. Brian tried to warn Iain about the nature of the flywheel drive but Iain apparently dismissed this, saying something along the lines of, 'oh, I can handle that sort of thing'... The next thing that happened was that Brian's loco failed to stop when Iain rather rapidly shut the power off, as it approached a buffer stop. The loco kept going and demolished Iain's scratchbuilt Dutch buffer stop! I gather the loco was then returned to it's owner and not requested again!

They all look very good, but what a painting challenge!

Hot or cold milk with that, Sir?