I had a train set when I was a kid, an Inter City 125 with all the proper coaches and a Mallard which didn’t work properly. I think model railway layouts are superb when they have a lot of features on.

Fans of “Secret Army” would also enjoy the third series of “Wish Me Luck” which I’m watching now. It’s set in France as opposed to Belgium and features Resistance rather than escape lines, but it’s a good series.

Just finished watching the “hanging” scenes from the third series (episode 11) to get screenshots for my Secret Army Facebook page. You spend the whole time watching that bit hoping that they don’t put the noose round Reinhardt’s neck, I certainly did the first time I saw it.

I’m also going to write some pieces about the aircraft used in the series for my page if I can get some decent pics of them from somewhere.

The Secret Army page I am building on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/SecretArmyFans

We went out to Eden Camp yesterday, and they have a memorial (and an exhibition) on escape lines and the vital role played by the real life people that “Secret Army” is based on.

The photo I attached is “Maxim’s” on the Grande Place in Brussels, which was used as the location for external shots of Le Candide in series 2 and 3 of “Secret Army”.

I used to watch it on Yesterday but it is better to watch it without adverts and pieces cut out I think. I remember seeing “Kessler” when it was originally shown on BBC, but I didn’t enjoy that as much as “Secret Army”.

“Secret Army” has some brilliant storylines and a good deal of suspense and tension, as well as some superb characters. All the more interesting in the fact that it was based on things which really happened.

The death of Reinhardt was, in my opinion, the most upsetting part of the whole series. He was my absolute favourite character and I would have loved to see him survive beyond the end of the war like the others did. The way he winds Kessler up and doesn’t give a damn about Kessler is just great.

We have the Daily Mail, used to get The Times but found it excruciatingly boring. The Mail does have some rubbish in but it also has some good articles, a good mix of serious and more light-hearted stuff, which I think is a good balance instead of all tat like you get in some and the serious, boring Times. Has good sport section if you like sport and some good magazines with the Sunday version.

We also get Yorkshire Post and a couple of local weeklies – Ryedale Gazette and Herald and Scarborough News (which is new and replaced the daily Scarborough Evening News).

No interest in the Olympics whatsoever, full of cheating, drugged up “athletes” getting paid God knows how much via “sponsorship” deals. Would be better if they were all true amateurs (weren’t they in the last London Olympics?)

As for the torch relay, I am more concerned about the hideous congestion and disruption it will cause in the places round here that it passes through.