Loxley Barton Falls had its first (and only so far) invite to attend another exhibition during ExpoNG2005 from Gerry Cork of Amberley Working Museum, to their Railway Gala weekend June 8th and 9th 2006. So the past couple of weeks have been a complete panic as I got the layout ready! The first thing I wanted to...

Wuhooo! Just won a pair of tickets for Paula and I to go see Muse at the Shepherds Bush Empire next Wednesday, 28th June 2006! Its a special small gig with only a few lucky winners going - going to be fantastic because the new album, Black Holes and Revelations, does not come out till the 3rd of July. The show is...

Last night on the very quite train home (during England’s match) my train was passed by the Brighton Express. As it passed at only a couple of miles per hour faster then we were going I noticed some very prominent T-Mobile stickers in on the windows and doors proclaiming the train had an onboard WIFI service. I had...

Is someone stealing your content? You probably don't know. I just read a piece over on Learning Movable Type that sparked this post off. If you publish RSS feeds then I expect someone will have used those feeds to fill their auto generated site to build ad revenue. So how can you check? I use Copyscapes offering...

Dashes vs Underscores is an ongoing debate about whether it is better to use a dash, or hyphen, in file name or to use an underscore instead. Over the past few years I have always used the underscore both at work and in home projects. This was for two reasons - the first being that underscores make the file name...

2 ton iron coal wagon kit by A Knights Work My Easter 2006 project was a 2 ton iron coal wagon kit by A Knights Work which I purchased a couple of months ago to test my soldering skills - or lack of them. It's all brass and does not fit together particularily well (the wagon floor seemed very undersized) but after a...

Just dug up an old 009 Society leaflet I picked up from Imrex 90 - 16 years ago! I had intended to join the society at the time but life got in the way as usual and I didn't sign up for another 11 years. The society is still going strong so if you have an interest in narrow gauge railway modeling please do join -...

The Greenwich and District Narrow Gauge Railway Society have a new website for the ExpoNG exhibition - www.expong.org. Expo Narrow Gauge is on the 29th October this year and I certainly will be going along. Hopefully I will get a proper look at the layouts on show as I only spent a quick 20 minutes going round the...

I was given the Scaloox starter pack for Christmas and I decided to have a go at building the water tower and coaling stage which was a good simple project to test out this new building form. Scaloox is a modular building system with stonework courses that you glue together in whatever combination you wish. There...

This one really bugged me. I was trying to validate some code I had uploaded to a staging area on a site and it would not validate back on my PC running CSE HTML Validate because something somewhere was inserting extra bits of javascript, SymWinOpen, and I could not work out what was happening. I was getting the...

The 2006 January edition of the Railway Modeller has a two page spread of the ExpoNG including a very good picture of Loxley Barton Falls and a small mention in the text. Available at most good newsagents. Narrow Gauge World January and February Edition has a picture as well as a piece about the competition. I have...

This year I have been eating a lot more Japanese food - mainly because I really like it but also because its good quality food. Itsu who have a takeaway stall outside my office provide me with excellent miso soup and what they call a lunch roll nearly every working day. The lunch roll is a tube of rice with...