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A moving view of earlier blog

That's a heat haze you see on the film, can you believe it in April.

Guarding the money!

At the Beach Cafe Restaurant  

St Anne's day out

Yesterday we had a day out at St Anne's , we couldn't have picked a better day very sunny and a nice breeze to  keep it from being too hot.

Boating lake

Doktor Hotfingers

RNLI Station

Prom

 St Annes RNLI Station

Nice seaside resort and nice modern shopping area short walk away

If you are in the area and want to see the Model Boats 

Blackpool & Fylde Model Boat Club

Type: Lake/Reservoir

Blackpool & Fylde Model Boat Club

Fairhaven Lake, Ansdell, Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, FY8 

April to October, weather permitting, sailing sessions, Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday evenings until sunset. 

Ashton Shopping

Yesterday it was the day for shopping at Ashton and going to the bank as our local branch is now the same as all things seem to be going "An Asian Restaurant". Still having said that they do seem to refurbish the sites and make them nice to look at instead of boarded and shuttered up, looking like down town Beirut.

Ah !! for the days when you could go for a walk window shopping in the evening and not being able to spend a lot of money because they were shut!

I went to a little model railway shop down an alley way and found quite a few items for my boat 

A nice stove,fancy clock, cake on a plate (no bread ! let them eat cake!) , nice butterfly picture,material for the bedding I will be making and lastly a tin bath which will have to be modernised.

Ah!! the old tin bath in front of the fire, I remember it well , Father first, then Mother,the kids, and lastly the baby , that's where the saying comes from I believe "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water"

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When he was in bed he was terrified that there might be someone under it, then when he got underneath it he was terrified that someone might be on top of him. 

The psychiatrist told him he had a bed phobia and was treating him at £100 a visit.

After a year of treatment and the loss of a small fortune he told the psychiatrist he wasn't coming back again .

"I had a talk with the barman and he solved my problem for a couple of quid " he said , he sawed the legs off the bed!

Looking closer

On looking closer at the picture posted earlier in the week of the tree in Debdale I noticed that there was something else there, funny how you don't always notice things first time round.

On closer inspection, there it is a little fly!

I've always taken photos of any modelling I do as it certainly shows up any defects you don't notice at first.

These are the stairs for front and rear of the Narra Boat complete with nosing for visibility in the dark interior.

Made a start on the kitchen area as well , plenty of plasticard used here

Fridge area

Full frontal

Stove area

 This project is an on going project so watch this space ! 

This shows what I mean about showing up discrepancies I think, still its got more work to be done on it.

If you think I'm teaching Granny to suck eggs there might be someone out there it helps so I'll be happy, 

Talking of Plasticard here is something my son RJR made earlier in Plasticard.

Check here

Smaller one is Ho

Painted and weathered

Look at all those windows to cut out !

I'm just a chip off the young block really

My Blackberry Is Not Working!!!

And now for something for the not so technically minded readers. 

A bit like the old classic sketch with the" Two Ronnies" and the " Fork handles"

If you haven't seen the " Fork handles" sketch where have you been . 

Inside the boat again

Did a few more pictures for inside the boat walls yesterday.

This is a oil painting that Bob ( the builder) Abell painted , not just a pretty face hey.

What other hobbies have you besides model Boats?

This next one is Velda and myself in our Line dancing days

So in total there are three finished thus

Also added some extra White lines to my canal art jugs

Still undecided whether to have the top of the superstructue removable or to stick it down !. 

Inside the boat

Yesterday Velda had finished the curtains for inside the boat and had done 3 different colours for me, no quick run up for Velda ! these are hemmed ,have stripes in the fabric if you look closely and tie backs !.

Then I thought about a picture or two and what better than the 1977 iconic Tennis Girl , I believe its been reissued at £300 each, Can't afford that so had to do with this size 2"x1" definition not good but you get the idea !. 

 

Then it was over to Debdale Park with Pepe before it started to rain.

The rain held off and we took a couple of shots of the park in bloom, do these pictures mean I can dispense with my thermal socks and its spring?.