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Miner Monday
Driver Wee Willy Winky pauses on the crossing next to The Miners Arms. The pub name hinting that it was very popular with the vertically challenged and the under aged drinker. The tiny car parked...
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When Scales Collide
What happens when the land of the inch high collides with the land of the two inch high. The inch high have been following Chris from the land of the two inch high all morning as he makes irritating...
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171 Shopping Days To Christmas
With just 171 shopping days until Christmas (at time of posting), the little people have temporarily popped up the Christmas tree to check that it’s okay, for its much easier to sort it out now in the...
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Flood!
After a plethora of thunderstorms last night, the trackbed has flooded between The Pedant & Armchair and the colliery. There are two options, speed into the flood and get very wet, or go to the pub...
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Sentinel Steam Lorry
Moonshine Monday. The little people as regular readers will know, have been trying out all sorts mobile moonshine production vehicles, they’ve used a narrowboat, various forms of rail and a diesel...
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The Flange & Flangeway Society
Before Barry Bullhead worked for the Ministry of Misery, he was 51% of a failed comedy duo known as The Grumble Brothers. Here they are between gigs with Barry & Larry checking out wheel flanges...
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Midweek Misery
Midweek Misery.Peter Peckett hated Wednesday mornings, so to liven things up, he could think of nothing better than to remove the mooring ropes from unmanned fishing boats. He’d then watch them float...
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Customer Experience
#WTFthursdayDown at the docks, management again have been on the beg and borrow in an attempt to improve the ‘customer experience’ with the local museum giving them the loan of a rather splendid Great...
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Gone in a Bang
Enthusiastic automotive cleaner, shiner, buffer & polisher Barry Scott has just arrived in his shiny new MG Magnette. Today he’s been asked to give the steaming heap next to his his pride & joy...
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Sunrise Shimmy
Saturday is forecast to be a little wet and stormy, however a splendid sunrise briefly illuminates Double Denim Dando having a little shimmy. Our dancing hero, who had a series of tap dancing wins in...
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Mother Knows Best
Nasal Nigel in his slightly sticky green bus-spotter flasher mac loves to watch the passing trains at the level crossing. But he really must stop putting his wiener through the wire mesh. He’s been...
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End of the Line
After 12 hours searching, Graham the LNWR G2, finally tracks down missing Wendy Wagon and Barry Brakevan who’d eloped by gravity down a remote branchline after a brief romance. They weren’t too...
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Refuge Bags
Another level crossing scene. Here’s part of Combwich, another one of my layouts dating back to the very early 1980s, although this section here is ‘only’ around 20 years old. I always cover my layouts...
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#WTFthursday
#WTFthursdayPC Rob Banks is getting a ticking off by the superintendent for arriving late at a possible crime scene involving a hidden moonshine stash. “Why did you bring the car by rail when you...
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Combwich
#FEF aka #frontendfridayIt’s Friday morning, and here we have the 09.35 to Evercreech departure. A scene on my Combwich layout that I started around 1981. Apart from 15 years or so when it was stored...
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Returning the Empties
Saturday morning and Liz & Teresa are returning their crate of empty moonshine jars for a refill, the moonshiners having set up a temporary shop and store in the little used goods shed at Catcott....
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Sunday Service
It’s Sunday at Polbrook Gurney Colliery. On this line, there isn’t normally a Sunday service, though to be honest there is little need for one on other days either due to the line running from the edge...
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The Very First Mobile Telephone
The inch high people of Little England are celebrating the launch of a new mobile telephone service. The telephone box can be operated from anywhere on the UK rail network, it being mounted on a flat...
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Lockout!
Wednesday morning at Moorewood Colliery. Doug has accidentally locked himself out of the engine winding house again. It never used to be locked, but since moonshine is stored in there, management...
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Summer of ‘69
A late July Thursday in 1969, the overnight mist and light rain is starting to clear, but this is only temporary, for the weather forecast is another mixed day of sunshine and showers with temperatures...
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