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And then one day you find…
I was sitting here pondering a blog post when it occurred to me that in November it will be TEN years since I started this blog and whilst I won’t be indulging in any concerted navel gazing in respect of this milestone, I don’t think a moment of reflection is totally out of order when…
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Bangernomics as a modelling philosophy.
I’m sat writing this on my sofa in Bervie on a cold night in late November, having finally settled in the place I feel I belong. Northern winters are long, dark and cold but when you live in the kind of place I do with the sea close by, the stunning land and seascapes of…
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Movements
A lot has happened since my last post and the last two to three months have seen enormous change in my life as I finally moved back north to start a new chapter in life. It all happened very quickly in the end with a neatness and ease I never, ever expected, even down to…
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The Last of the many.
This week, after thirteen years of operation and probably a three figure total of locos weathered, to say nothing of a good number of builds, ‘Kingmoor Works’ closes its doors for the last time as relocation north beckons. The last models have left the works in the last month or so. This Heljan Class 60…
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Closer.
You’ll recall in the last post that an offer had been made and accepted for the house. Things have indeed been progressing, slowly until a month ago but then accelerating rapidly to the point that I will be leaving Carlisle finally of the 30th of July. As you’ll have observed, a process of packing and…
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Decades.
In the last couple of weeks I have received a suitable offer for the house, the paperwork has been submitted and it’s now pretty much just a case of working out a suitable date. And at that point, an association with this house and this city, dating back to the last days of the 20th…
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In-between Days
Apologies for the ‘on-off’ nature of postings at the moment. Regular readers will know that I’ve been on a long journey for the last 6-7 years on a number of levels; The primary thrust of that journey is the physical one I’ve been building up to in preparation for my return home at long last.…
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Isolation
It’s been a strange old time for all of us this year, myself included and from a personal perspective, lockdown led to the surprising revelation that apart from trips out through the Borders, Galloway and beyond and going out to work three days a week, my life wasn’t that different. I have lived a increasingly…
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Heart and Soul
Now and then a new release arrives that inspires you so much that you throw all your creative effort at it to make it as special as you can. Dapol’s Class 21/29 is precisely one of those though in fairness, Hattons’ Barclay Pugs and Hornby’s J36 (plus the impending Rails 812 Class and Hornby 2MT)…
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Wordless Wednesday (08 in the woods)
Another reblog from Albion Yard but I couldn’t resist sharing as it encapsulates exactly the kind of modelling I wish to emulate when I finally get to start building layouts! Wordless Wednesday (08 in the woods)
Max Stafford's Kennel 