Dear BobK,
Seemingly you are one of a few this weekend gone who has been doing something really constructive!!!
I have only met one Member of Mayhem, and all I can say is that he has a lovely setup. As to me, I can't use the plant/machinery workshop for obvious reasons, so, I just clear one of the large desks in the Office here. Plenty of anglepoise lamps, good 6" dia., long reach magnifier, and the bottom drawer of one of the filing cabinets has a file on each of the vessels to refer to. Areas of the Off. have ships, others have the TX's, chargers, tools, and I have managed to find a home for a couple of those aluminium cases with other 'serious bit's' in! 'At home', well, a place has been found for ships. All in pretty good order really as I know where it all is, but irritating it is not all in one single dedicated room! There are various finishing things I wan't to do with the 1:96 Belfast, but this dispersion of things is not conducive to getting down to it. I would like to get some of the ships on the water this year, but prop. shafts must be stripped and re-greased, batteries serviced and/or replaced (a days work to be thorough), and then only a matter of getting a day dedicated to playing and relaxing with ships on a nice quiet lake!
Regards, Bernard
Dear Nige,
Well, "Another week another Dollar", but, before I continue it's finishing/planning it I can't resist replying!
What you said I hadn't thought about... intresting analogy! I always considered Compo the best in consistent character: Peter Sallis (Clegg), Foggy, and the retired Head Master from 'the school that sank' (!), were all of course excellent in their portrail of a time gone by. A scenario, however, that over the years I have seen happen similarly amongst others in real life... twice in fact: Weardale and Keswick area. Sadly, most if not all of those excellent characters I knew are no longer with us, but there are humorous stories I could tell about them! The early 1970's through to the late 1980's was a turning point (possibly into the early 1990's)... I didn't recognise it at first really since in the 70's, things and people just seem to go on, but oh how things change. Those times will never ever be repeated... too much of a break from the old ways and the 'new' now... but how lucky I was to have seen it all, and what good times were had!
Compo, well, if only I could afford to have his outlook on life and his way to live it! Indeed, how might we all like to live such a life, in such a place... as those three in Last of the Summer Wine! The World is a bit more 'intense' now than then: the financial world teetering, Countries going bump, costs rising, and all of us being stung for as much Tax as possible! Oh, and we mustn't forget dear Nora Batty!!! - there are still one or two left like that illustrious Lady!
Regards, Bernard