What can you do on Dec 25th if you don't "do" a normal Christmas? The Great Central Railway were running a special service today, featuring Santa, festive lights, mince pies, even a steam locomotive draped in tinsel! A lovely day out...

I never studied Latin at school, but I find this phrase very useful-
"illegitimi non carborundum".
Or, don't let the bar stewards get you down..

Model trains are not cheap these days, but when you see liveries like these, (Hornby GER J15 & Accurascale "Bluebell") you can see why..

A brilliant day at Lowestoft Model Engineering exhibition; loads of incredible modelmaking, trains, planes, ships, traction engines to name just a few. My faves' were the diorama based on Back To The Future 3, and a couple of life-size Daleks (Kemble and Sec...)

This is the charming P class, "Bluebell", from Accurascale models. Had her since January, this is her first time running. Seen here hauling a Bachmann inspection coach. 32636 "Fenchurch" in the foreground.

Picked up this card station for £10 recently. I just need to do a few small repairs, fit some chimneys, and extend the platform, and the new layout has it's 1st building..

Hornby's charming little GER Y14 loco has it's first run on the remains of my old layout, now demoted to being a loco test track.

Two new locomotives arrived this week; Hornby J15 in GER blue, and a Bachmann class 20 diesel in green.. Just need to finish the new layout for them to run on..

Keir Starmer will be trialling digital ID here in the UK. He states 'we already have many forms of digital ID'. True, so why make us buy another in order to access vital services we pay for?
Labour tried to introduce similar ID cards 2 decades ago; we stopped it then, we must do again..

Associates of "Tommy Robinson" have been spotted urinating in bushes in hospital grounds.
Where is the moral panic, whipped up by the media, like happened over trans people and the bathroom?
Mr. Starmer, Miss Rowling, what do you have to say about it?

Spent an evening watching Genesis of the Daleks. Filmed half a century ago, it shows the damage a megalomaniac in charge can do. 50 years on, there is Trump.
Although I'd say Davros is better looking..

66 years ago today, something went on sale that revolutionized the motoring world- the BMC Mini. Brainchild of the eccentric genius Alec Issigonis, it gave freedom and fun to millions.
5387862 examples later, it is still an icon.
Happy Birthday Mini!!

I believe it was Chris Lowe,
one half of the iconic Pet Shop Boys, who said-
"There is only one love- one person loving another.."
If only the homophobes would even try to understand..
Happy Pride Month!