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They're little dioramas. I sometimes set them out at Christmas, or if I pull down my N gauge train set (it fits on the mantlepiece) I sort of play with them. Honestly, it's the total zen of engrossed chill out of the build that pleases me. Definitely the build. Put it this way, the local model...

Izal, came in wee flat boxes that fitted into the china holder on the loo wall. Horrible stuff. Decent tissue paper for drawing though.....we did pencil rubbings of coins and medals through it. Weird smell to the paper too, medicated or suchlike. Neighbour further down the street with little...

I like puzzles, preferably the numerical ones. My vocabulary's fairly good, so crosswords are just a few minutes chill out, kind of thing. I like 3D manipulation, I make patterns, I design moving paper engineering pieces, happily leave a trail of 'tormented paper things' (quote husband) behind...

Not long home; picked up Son2 from the train station, and the local petrol station (8 pumps) is queued out onto the Main Road. It seems that the local supermarket pumps (Morrisons, Sainsbury's, Asda, etc.,) are out of fuel and have closed. Traffic was virtually all driving below the speed limit...

I don't watch tv, I miss the pith of such comments.

I'm the other way, I fill up when my tank drops to just under the half way mark....it's sitting on three quarters just now. I'm hoping that by the end of the Easter holidays things will have settled down. At my normal driving these days, I've got about a month's worth.

Only won a hundred this month.....still, it's a hundred quid....just in time for the petrol rises :rolleyes2:

Yes, but he ought to have, but there was a really strong gun lobby and they and the police didn't act together on concerns about Hamilton. It really showed up the failings in the system that was in place. I think we can consider that historical though, not really politically active, not in the UK.

If the ban had been in place Thomas Hamilton could not have murdered 16 bairns, injured 15 others, and killed their teacher......that was the turning point that made a nation decide that we loved our children more than we loved guns. So, here we are, and those railing agin the ban are...

No labels ? If it's Irish then those were usually lighter/smaller, iirc. The French made ones were car and bike camping kit....apart from the mountaineering wee ones, that is. This is all a very long time ago :shameful: they were like our Black's, except Black's were green and those were...

Is it a French or Irish made one ?

Scotland now produces enough 'renewable' energy to be a reliable export component of the national grid. It's a slow process this change, but it's real, and it's growing. Right now though, I can't walk terribly far, public transport, though good, doesn't easily get me right to...

I would have been all over that when my two were little :) A different trip every day, from the seaside to the mountains, cities and step by step jaunts across the country.

Local garage seems fine, 153.9 a litre though....that's up £1.70 a gallon since the latest brouhaha in the middle east. How long does petrol last ? I know you're not supposed to leave it in things like lawnmowers over winter, but does it degrade in a car tank ?

.....and let's not talk about bonded leather.......

https://news.stv.tv/scotland/unlimited-rail-travel-for-families-during-easter-holidays-with-scotrail-family-pass £60 covers two adults and four children for seven days :)

His degree is engineering, he works in IT, he also works with a friend who sets up huge lighting installations, from the Olympics to permanent things like bridges. Basically it sounded like he didn't think it was safe, yet. He's just about to buy a pallet load of solar panels to power up his...

Oh me too :)

The laws change with the times. Our King James 2nd banned golf and football....because it got in the way of young men practicing archery :) https://digital.nls.uk/golf-in-scotland/banned/ right enough that was in 1457....

Well that's a mistake. Look up Kyle Clifford....he killed three women, stabbed one and shot the other two with the crossbow. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg70vjmv08ro or look up Laura Sugden https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg9wnlzkpwo shot in the head with a bolt and her partner...