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You mean N gauge?

They had a scary halon fire suppression system at Rothmans I recall.

Travelling up the A41 I always wanted to go to Tring for some odd reason.

I went there 30 years ago. It was alright, I was well chuffed. Last I heard they were bringing the manufacturing back to the UK?

Any random sentence with the word knob in should do it.

When Hornby/Scalextric moved abroad, when we stopped making tellys here, when sub 6' policemen were allowed into the force...when text speak became acceptable, when the 3 R's lost their importance. The rise of fast food, when kids stopped getting off their ar5es to wash M&D's car for their pocket money...

Presumably their resin driveway is not at least 6" below your walls damp course? Wait until they're out/on holiday, straight edge, petrol disc cutter and cut a foot wide French drain around your porch. Got any pictures?

Or was it when we sold our Harriers to the US for a pittance? The majority in perfect working order along with masses of spares. The bonus was they had been maintained to far higher levels than those of the USMC which at one time had a bit of a dismal record with the Harrier. Our ground crew training and maintenance regimes were far better and it showed ultimately in lower fault/accident rates. A lad I know was an artificer working on them one day and crating them up the next. He was absolutely gutted. Now languishing in the States being cannibalised for spares (the jets not him).

Repeated from a thread a while back but there's a story goes around I first heard at college about the outgoing head of the IET I think it was. Every year he'd give a blinding speech full of anecdotes and laughs and every year it was different. Before he began he'd unfold what appeared to be the same piece of crumpled paper year after year then launch into it. Upon his retirement somebody asked how he gave such cracking speeches every year and what was on the bit of paper to which he replied "All you need to remember is red wire live, black wire neutral!"

Great imho for a middle aged / older couple's break if your thing is scenery, walking, pub lunches and erm pub lunches. I worked at Rothmans in Aylesbury. Being a non smoker I still had to get the ridiculous quantity of fags you were allowed for mates.

I absolutely love the place and in all weathers. I'd happily live there.

Back on thread.....always pretty depressing standing on the IoW amid the remnants of the High Down Test Site...standing in Concorde at Duxford etc.

Ground being nearest to ground, makes perfect sense...saves the electricity falling out of the bottom of the plug too. ?

What about cack-handed?

I got given the best part of a reel of 2.5 a short while back oddly enough...

Fill the tube ends with expanding foam is a trick for next time.....or a cork.....or anything you can dig out later.

You can get some lovely red & black T&E esque cable from ZA... Sadly not quite the same as our old stuff.

If it's high up and out of reach?

Red is dangerous all day long. Brown is warm and cuddly...

Around when British Rail abandoned their nuclear powered flying saucer project?

Caramel wafers here ever since you could get them from the "proper" milkman 50 years ago, carried on his EV.

I was meaning the caramel wafer but I've a feeling you're going to say it's tea cakes?

A minimum size maybe? Isn't it some Scots DNOs etc insist on red ducting too rather than the "normal" black? Copious tea, coffee and a selection of biscuits etc usually smooths any works. Maybe chuck in a curve ball like Garibaldi or Tunnocks to focus attention elsewhere.

Wootton backboards are impregnated with a retardant solution.

Meter board from CEF. Butt two together to get a bigger size. You can also get little spacers for mounting off the wall. Handy for getting cables up behind. Tbh some CEF branches are better than others. Best to order online for collection at a local store then you can check for lumps knocked off it! https://www.cef.co.uk/catalogue/products/search?q=Meter board Or from here: https://www.jointingtech.co.uk/Meter-Boards-FR-Chipboard