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I never outgrew metal as my parents promised/wished.

A couple of great items there.

I had been after a dapol class 50 ....finally found one on new railway modellers site, superb service and packaging.(If you follow Sam's trains , he has an interesting rand about Hornby their packaging using a 3rd party provider...and quite rightly so).
And popped into my local shop and found a V2 Green Arrow second hand at a nice price, appreciate that is a first generation model, so has a horribly lightweight tender which doesn't help the power supply, but a little tweaking of the contacts , and some additional weight has helped the running.

So, my review of the last few :

Bon Jovi - Noooooooooooooo

Ukulele Orchestra - I quite like them but not sure that I could manage to much of them in one go.

Guru Guru - new to me and definitely interesting. I shall listen a bit more @Moonglum

Skyfall - Leo Morachioli - sorry @Newportnobby but that is an almighty row.

Link here: https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/mrh-202601-january-2026-13775692

Quote from: kusojiji on January 20, 2026, 11:48:46 AMHere's another that I enjoy that is no longer putting out new videos.


https://youtu.be/NtPPWvsRk7w

Love it!   My sister's gonna hate it  

Quote from: Moonglum on January 19, 2026, 08:10:53 PMQuite like both. Kin Ping Meh slightly spoilt by overuse of phasing but I do like Krautrock. Guru Guru have their moments...

Tim

Oh dear. Bunch of old geezers making a racket   Sorry, Tim

Here's another that I enjoy that is no longer putting out new videos.


https://youtu.be/NtPPWvsRk7w

Quote from: EtchedPixels on January 17, 2026, 03:25:50 PMSpot the model railway magazine...

I enjoyed their stuff. Too bad they don't put out any more new videos.

My gov passport was just a different color, nothing special. I need to have a passport as I am a "green card" holder here in Japan.

Quote from: cmason on January 19, 2026, 03:12:03 PMWindows 11 has bits that are OK and that I appreciate however some bits are driving me up the wall - especially CoPilot which is trying to embed itself everywhere. I call it Clippy 2.0. Many may remember Clippy as a failed attempt by Microsoft to introduce an assistant back in the days of Windows 3.1.

At least Clippy was easy to get rid of.

On every new machine I had to use, one of the first things I did was to locate the "actors" folder and rename it - usually to "deadactors"