I’ve been building model aircraft, buses, trains, and even the odd ship since I was about 5 or 6. My first effort – a Folland Gnat – is still around!
Shame some of my other early efforts have not survived…

I’m still building today, 30+ years on. My latest model is a 1:72 Halifax, finished as 51 Squadron’s HR727 ‘V’. Close behind the Halibag are two Lancaster IIs.

My other half’s Grandson has expressed an interest in model making (“Granddad Don, can I help you make the next one please?” 🙂 ), so I bought him a snap-together kit for his birthday. On my last visit, he took great pride in showing me his creation.
OK, so the wings were upside-down, but it’s his model, and he’s still proud of it. Protective too – He won’t let his sisters anywhere near it!

The news of the fall in sales is worrying; I hope that there are still good kits and model shops around to sell them for when my little “prodigy” opens his first tube of glue.

Don

Also I think he’s going out with a fat bottomed girl:p

She won’t be, if he gets her to ride HER bike! :D:D

Rest assured, I personally hadn’t forgotten, Pete…

It is somewhat ironic that just after midnight, I was putting the finishing touches to my B-52H model…

Myself and my partner held our own personal act of remembrance this morning.
I think we can all recall exactly what we were doing on the day itself, I recall watching events unfolding on T.V. (Like yourself, I too saw the second ‘plane hit ‘live’), and following the events on Airdisaster.com.

The victims of this atrocity will not be forgotten.

Don

Blue Skies, Sir.

Thank you for your service.

…And why most of them need to be driven to school is beyond me.

Don’t get me started. Also in Long Eaton, I used to be driving down Nottingham Road at around 0745, and this silly c0w driving one of those people carriers would emerge from Carrfield Avenue, and drive down to the bus stop at Harlaxton Drive to drop-off her solitary child. About 250 yards or so.

Yet parents still insist on driving their offspring the half a mile to school – probably due to some misguided media fuelled stranger danger fear!

And the Government wonders why (A). There are so many cars on the roads, and (B). Why so many kids are obese.
The media has a lot to answer for, IMO…

Rant over. For now.

I thought nothing could surprise me regarding idiots on the road, until this happened a couple of days ago…

I was driving my (preserved) bus through Long Eaton’s Market Place, following a long line of traffic, mainly cars. Up ahead, I noticed a young mother with 4 kids,trying to cross the road. Two of them were in one of those double pushchair-type things .

She must have lost patience, as then she did no more than shove the pushchair, complete with kids into the road in an attempt to ‘bully’ traffic into letting her cross. She succeeded with the second car in front of me…
The driver had to brake – hard. How the driver of the following car avoided hitting the first car (or the driver of the first car avoided hitting that silly b1tch), I’ll never know…

Guess whose fault it would have been if that car had’ve hit the pushchair… :rolleyes::mad::mad:

Isn’t there an intact, inverted Botha in an estuary near Millom?

Don