Category: Scotland
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St Clements Yard.
After all those years of ideas without a place to build them in, the move last year finally made some material action possible. One of the selling points of the new place was a fully equipped loft which met my needs perfectly. The next stage was to assess the available space, weighing that against my…
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Getting down to business at last
I’ve been off work this week which has allowed me to finally get properly to grips with the long procession of models requiring enhancement. This week that has meant some top-end 1960s-era mainline power. First pair out the door into today’s early spring daylight were A2s No 60530 and 60535, both in 1965 condition.’535 is…
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If you build it, they will come.
Twenty-five years ago; if you had told me that in the 21st Century I’d be riding down the re-born Waverley Route behind a Peppercorn A1 Class locomotive I would have asked you what you’d just dropped. Man… On Sunday the 13th September 2015, though no illicit chemistry of any sort was involved, that’s exactly what…
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Sailing on the hole in the heart
Politics again folks but I felt compelled to share Paul’s excellent piece today as it encapsulates perfectly my disgust at the malice and reprehensible conduct of the British media not only to my country but to the family of Charles Kennedy at one of the darkest times in their lives. Please avoid buying their disgusting…
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Captain’s Log, Stardate; WTF?
As someone who’s been following Scottish politics since the great independence debate took off in 2011-12, I’m pretty used to ill-informed, bat-shit craziness by now but I have to say that this post, spotted on a well-known UK model railway forum by an ‘alert follower’ 😉 still made me rather astonished in a Jo-La sort…
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Where you’ve been and where you’re headed…
Well, there we are. Our wee blue world has completed another circle of the sun,bringing to a close a year of great change on a personal, national and global scale. It’s been a funny old year from my own perspective as an old career finally ran its course and I sit right in the middle…
Max Stafford's Kennel 