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No doubt about it. Maurice has been a fantastic and pivotal element toward the hugely successful promotion of our club in so many ways. Not sure there are many who can follow all of that but I feel very privileged to be asked to take over as Exhibition Coordinator for the OOLSC. Thoroughly looking forward to exploring and enjoying the new role. Hopefully, this petrol shortage will get sorted intime to see old chums at MK and Gaydon in October.

Yes a very warm welcome back Mike. We were all a little concerned about your silence.

He sold one recently to Anthony Vaughan and it fried the PCB board on his Mallard! James Reading did give him a new PCB. Maurice

I agree. God knows how many hours we've spent trying to get some of these going to no avail.

Excellent move!! I would suggest ordering some critical parts every 3-4 months! Say 30 sets of everything we deem critical! Wheels, Contacts, PCBs etc!! I do intend to find out why the thin PCBs have huge price difference between A4 and A3 though! One is £9 and the other is £25 for what is essentially the same item!!

I would just add that I’m not advocating that we sell parts for the above prices, but we price according to demand, availability and cost of buying a replacement loco.

Likewise delighted to here from you and glad you’ll soon be back with us. Sounds like you need a new parrot?

Whatever people might think of him it seems to me James is definitely a very organised and disciplined person . . . although having one of the largest train rooms in the country is probably a big help!

In my view is a very good idea. As you say it will give us control and also ensure we can continue to repair & maintain both the club and customer locos.

I like this idea a lot, that is, using the summer meet to allow her to start a live steam loco from scratch a la Hornby’s instructions and evaluate the results etc! We can use this time to enlighten her of our club based efforts and new products that allow the pleasurable control of live steam that was only dreamed dreamed of. Also we don’t have to ship a set to her and then ship it back,,,, a lot of money and agro!

In principle I think it good idea to promote live steam, but I would not do it the way you are suggesting Adrian. I think we’re asking for trouble sending her one in a box and leaving her to it. My suggestion would be to do this in a controlled environment, talking to Nick this morning he tells me she lives not too far from where we plan to hold the summer meet. Invite her to that, show her and let her try more than one loco on the club layout, demonstrate how much better they are on a reasonably sized layout, also demonstrate the advantages of live drive etc..

Not the initial reason. The house is as left by the previous owner who had moved in with her new partner and had lost interest in it's current condition. Although I should mention that Snoopy had been allowed to strip about a square meter of wallpaper over the two months staying there. As for replacing him, these parrots live a long time, Snoopy is now 43 years old and only about halfway through his natural life span. If we replaced him we would be back to year one and I don't think that I could endure living with the demands of a young, noisy and destructive newcomer. 😆