Category: writing
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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.…
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None of My Work Is Written With Artificial Intelligence
It is pure, natural stupidity. I have what is apparently an inexhaustible supply of this and it seems a shame to waste the opportunity to turn it to good use. I have long since ceased to plague the general populace in a professional sense and even my trade days are done. Now I just build…
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What Everyone Knows…
Can be absolute truth, malicious nonsense, or anything in between. When your scale model building intersects with public knowledge, you would do well to determine exactly which sort you have. I have built glaring mistakes, and made a good job of them, too, based upon what everyone knows. In most cases, even if everyone agrees,…
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Social Media Jail
Apparently I make a social media organisation nervous. I’m perplexed – the last time I made anyone uneasy was in professional practice and there was a statutory board that controlled me. I’m surprised that a US social media corporation thinks itself jurisdictional in Australia, but these are new times. Briefly, I’ve had a post about…
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I Need A Secretary
Stop making those snorting noises – I really do. I write more than I can readily publish and the mechanics of translating these little pieces to the WordPress site and then sneaking them onto a Facebook page is taking up a great deal of time. They come off the ends of my fingers like literary…
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” Your Thing Is Too Long “
Say what? Oh, you mean my weblog post is too long. It goes past the limits of your patience and vocabulary and you flick away. Well flick off, by all means – this column is for the grown-ups. It is for the people who can spend day, weeks, and months on scale model kits –…
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Do We Read Or Watch?
A good question for scale modellers. We used to have books and magazines to inform our modelling. Increasingly we turn to screens…sometimes to read, as you are doing now…but sometimes to watch an unknown person tell us how to do something or what to think about some subject. The video proceeds at its own pace…
The Little World 