Science

Shunting Review

13th July 2018 Sweaty Dave 3529 Comments

Some of you who have stumbled upon this wonderful site in recent weeks and months may be wondering what various references to shunting and occasional photos of a railway scene are all about. You may [more…]

The Spitfire, of course

29th May 2018 GrumpyAngler 3804 Comments

Ask anyone from the general public to name a great aeroplane or a great British fighter of WWII, and chances are they will say, without hesitation, “The Spitfire of course.” If you ask why you [more…]

The Castle

29th May 2018 Jonathon Davies 2464 Comments

I love castles and have always found their development and changing functions fascinating. They show social, military and political history. They are a physical representation of the past, and yet many of them are still in [more…]

Shunting to the end

21st May 2018 Sweaty Dave 3155 Comments

If you remember back at the start of this series, I came up with the idea of a ‘winter project’. Well it is no longer winter, even in the North, so time to bring it [more…]

Shunting into colour

23rd April 2018 Sweaty Dave 3177 Comments

A shorter update this time, primarily due to other activites taking precedence – not weather related over the past weeks, but the Easter holidays threw routines out of the window. The eldest came home and [more…]

Shunting Cobbles

5th April 2018 Sweaty Dave 1907 Comments

With spring just around the corner, allegedly, this winter project should be coming to a close, but so far there is little sign of that. The return of the eldest son from Uni meant decamping [more…]

The Baby Boeing

2nd April 2018 Æthelberht 1494 Comments

I think most of us here don’t get terribly excited at the thought of the Boeing 737. It’s quite mundane, unremarkable, pedestrian even. I suspect more than a few of us here have been herded [more…]

Shunting Prototypes

13th March 2018 Sweaty Dave 2126 Comments

Work on the layout has slowed a little with the recent weather disruptions affecting routines. The successful completion of the cyclists/ Sweeney run was also the closing of a chapter. As you can see Wiggins [more…]

Gmbd, something about pixels

10th March 2018 Gmbd 1035 Comments

I looked at some of these videos where they put another head over a bit of film and I thought; “that seems to wobble about a bit, I wonder how they do that because I [more…]