Plum Hollow, minor progress For a variety of reasons the Plum Hollow layout project has had almost nothing done on it for some time. That was not a case of out of sight out of mind, simply a case of other workload intervening. The scenic side is the next step, hence today’s test kit build.… Read More »
Writing event Why not come along to Littlemoor Library, near Weymouth, a week today (9th October) where Kathy, Judi and I will be taking part in this event next week. Come and join us for some insights into the factual, fanciful and fictional world of writing. An opportunity to see, and buy, from a cross-cutting… Read More »
Garage As part of the ongoing tidying and fixing of the garage it became apparent that the roof was leaking. Closer inspection indicated that almost the whole of the edge strip where the roofing felt bends over the edge had split. On getting onto the roof I also discovered that the original installation in several… Read More »
Modelling update This is just a short post. I am taking advantage today of what might be one of the last sunny autumn days to get some garage tidying done and make my railway modelling gear and stock more accessible. Sadly the garage check has produced a major casualty. The old, stored, baseboards haven’t warped (I… Read More »
It’s August Firstly why the Yorkshire rose? 1st August was Yorkshire day, a day when we can all celebrate the best of the county and our heritage. I was going to head up this up as August jottings, however, that would perhaps have suggested a gravitas for the post far greater than justified. The problem… Read More »
Early Railways 6 – Edited by Anthony Coulls This book, Early Railways 6, for which this is the advance call for subscriptions, will be my next academically published work. The series of Early Railways Conferences held its sixth gathering in June 2016 in the cradle of railway history that is Newcastle, with visits and events across… Read More »
Missed blog posts (April & June) This is a shortened rewording of what formed the Editorial to the most recent SLS Journal and Newsletter (J912 July/August), a bi-monthly magazine which I now edit and giving the reasons for my missing the task of making blog posts here during both April and June. SLS Stand ready for… Read More »
Mental Health Feedback This is not a full feature blog post but back in October I wrote a piece on Mental Health Awareness and have subsequently received additional feed back on it. This is therefore just a short snippet updating that item and adding extra links. The problem with stress and other visibly hidden mental… Read More »
Harry Potter A slight change from recent blog posts as, although the content mentioned previously still justifies being written, I have not had time to add it. Therefore for this month’s post a short piece of Harry Potter fan fiction written from an idea and title sparked by the recent Weymouth Writing Matters group take-away… Read More »
Why no April post? Due to the increasing pressures of my SLS workload since taking on the role of Journal Editor, plus other work related to the new GDPR system there was no time to write and publish an April blog post for which I apologise. I had content to write, just not the time… Read More »