Have you been unable to verify account name or password, or changed your keychain password and had issues with Apple mail and services such as Linkedin, Google, Flickr, Vimeo? I have had this situation and I was able to solve it with a fix that will save you time. Quickly fix the Apple mail ”unable to verify account...

without having that DNS propagation wait As part of an upgrade to a site we wanted to add a blog to provide news and updates. The site was flat filed so putting it onto Perch was the obvious way to go — there were plenty of other benefits as well. I wanted to make the transition from the sites US hosting, where it...

French meter gauge goods shed I was invited to display one of my layouts as part of the celebrations at the Froissy Dompierre Light Railway in France. a few years ago. Whilst there I picked up a plaster cast kit of a classic wooden goods shed often found on the meter gauge lines with the idea that I would build a...

Body work for the SRB001 Freelance DEUTZ Style 0-4-0DM In my first post about this new 009 kit of the Deutz. I got as far as adding ballast into the chassis. I then created added the cranks without the rods. This is quite a delicate operation and I needed to ensure the Locktite didn’t go into the wrong places else I...

SRB001 Freelance DEUTZ Style 0-4-0DM Part of the premise for Stuart’s kits is that he will only do small runs. That’s how he wants to do it and he has gained a great deal of knowledge of his late father and the other members of the GDNGRS who manufacture kits — I am one of the few who doesn’t! So if you see one of...

Work in progress gets out the house Recently I realised that it was five years ago that I had built the baseboard framework after Richard Glover gave me the plans for Whitesands Quay. Yes, I have moved house since and yes I have a lot more room in which to model but blah blah blah excuse excuse etc. So in an effort...

Replacing the chimney pots on the row of cottages Having built the row of cottages kit from Scalescenes I had added small pieces of styrene tube as chimney pots with the intention of painting them terra cotta. However I noticed that the chimney pots in the photos on the Scalescenes web site seem to be the white...

Hand-built track and point controls The track work on Whitesands Quay consists of four points providing a runaround and two sidings. This provides enough scope for interesting operations and operating sequences when exhibiting the layout. I built the track the traditional way using code 65 rail on copper clad...

The Neil Sayer Models La Meuse 009 kit This is a special kit as it was presented to me, as a surprise, by the registrar when Paula and I got married. Paula got a ring and I got a La Meuse kit to make our vows on. She isn’t stupid… The kit is from Neil Sayer Models. and is of the 1938 La Meuse 2−6−0 used on the sugar...

Using a Scalescenes card kit Originally I had intended to construct the buildings for Whitesands Quay. using Pendon. methods but I really don’t have the hundreds of hours required to find, measure, photograph, draw, emboss, watercolour and construct suitable buildings for this layout. That way madness can occur....

A new small raised bed in the garden to provide fresh produce. Plans In our new home we have a much bigger garden — in fact, it’s a bit daunting, to be honest. Paula would really like to combine a cut flower and vegetable garden so we visited Sarah Ravens home/​garden/​enterprise to see how she had achieved this and...

Most UK organisations have ignored the EU directive on cookies The EU Cookie Consent law has been making a lot of waves in the web industry since it was first announced. The UK was given an extended period to implement the law and this has been overseen by the Information Commissioner’s Office. — ​“the UK’s...