Category: writing
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Is Your Hobby Exclusive?
Jeez, I hope not. Lots of things in life are; institutions, clubs, professions. Families, religions, nations, tribes. Trades, towns, and teams. You might get in or you might not, and it often depends on others’ say-so. Whatever hobby you select ( or whichever selects you…) settle on one that lets everyone in; the elite as…
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The Dead Blog
There is nothing sadder than a dead bird – unless it is a dead scale model blog. I have followed several of these, though not expecting their demise. They started well, or were going along great guns when I first encountered them…and then just stopped. I cannot know why. Dread tells me that some of…
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How To Make A Forum Of Modellers Laugh
Apologise to them on behalf of each other. I once turned my keyboard to a scale model tank forum and tried to tell a joke. The responses were 2% laughter, 58% incomprehension, 38% serious scolding, and 2% vitriol. This for a 1:35 plastic Sherman tank. Needless to say nearly all the negative responses were from…
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Merely A Model Builder
And old eccentric. Trapped in a second childhood. A harmless weirdo. Or so it would seem from a recent detective novel I read. Written about a modern-day serial murderer in Somerset and the detective work that catches her, it takes more than a passing swipe at model railway enthusiasts – and railway hobbyists in general.…
The Little World 