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Trade Union activist of vintage years, proud ‘woke lefty snowflake’. Ferroequinologist. Garden railway. Ailurophile YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@FeckHallBahn
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Better late than never. #tailendtuesday on the FeckHallBahn One recent, one archive and one potential diorama.

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Happy Friday What better than a steak and ale pie, the ale being Old Peculier, washed down with a pint of Purple Moose Brewery/Bragdy Mŵs Piws Dark Side of the Moose?

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For people living with pancreatic cancer, access to PERT isn’t optional – it’s essential. I’ve signed this letter calling on the Government to act urgently and decisively. This is about giving people dignity in their final months – and for many, a fighting chance to live longer.

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Digits 04/09/25 Total: 15 ⭐s out of 15 1: 96 (96) ⭐⭐⭐ ✖️➖➕ 2: 132 (132) ⭐⭐⭐ ✖️➖ 3: 278 (278) ⭐⭐⭐ ✖️➕ 4: 341 (341) ⭐⭐⭐ ✖️➕✖️ 5: 474 (474) ⭐⭐⭐ ➕✖️➖

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Look who’s flying straight into your feed!🦉 ©️ chris.laracy #Owl #flying #Birds

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His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few people. Henry Lawsy Maskerade #terrypratchett #discworld

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#waffle1172 5/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩⭐🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 streak: 17 🏆 #waffleelite wafflegame.net

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Spring has definitely sprung here

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Out and about on my trike ride yesterday I spotted a scene that's begging to be modelled - roadside scrapyard. Popped back to take some pics today.

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Side on Saturday - Judy and the 'Sunshine' coach youtu.be/N_owj79WIhA A glorious Spring morning in Kopflos Kreuze and the 11:13 Hornundtrompete departure. Our passengers had a choice of transport today; railcar Frau Doyle or the exposed open coach and steam haulage. They opted for the latter.

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#throwbackthursday ‘Circuits & Bumps’ with Polly youtu.be/svGY4Lsd94Y

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Weathering Wednesday Skips on the FeckHallBahn and their inspirations at Threlkeld Quarry and Mining Museum

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#tailendtuesday - The 19:41 Hornundtrompetebahnhof to Murthwaite Sehr Sud and return youtu.be/LvEledtQ9Ug

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#standingmutelysunday Hornundtrompetebahnhof. No passenger service today

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150 miles reached already; time for first service and also eliminating brake squeal. Thoroughly enjoyed myself using skills and tools very similar to my motorbikes which I always serviced myself. Good to find a use for the axle stand I bought because my last & final bike didn't have a centre stand!

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#throwbackthursday Krupp 2-6-2 on express freight. Sound is my recording of the full size version! #gardenrailway #narrowgauge

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Route Familiarisation of the Reconfigured and Reduced FeckHallBahn youtu.be/B0aVTdIa8ys Part One - trackside and drone Part Two - driver's eye view Baskerville driven by Murdo Guard - Zoë

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@wearethemu.bsky.social MU Deeply Concerned by Proposed Cuts to Disability Benefits (snd so am I, funnily enough) musiciansunion.org.uk/news/mu-deep...

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FeckHallBahn Shed Notices dated the Ides of March 2025. Tomorrow, 16th of March 2025, the 'Nibelung Line' will be closed and lifting will commence thus making the railway end to end once again. The section between Tiefeshorn and the Murthwaite Sehr Sud shunt limit is now closed.

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The Assassin moved quietly from roof to roof until he was well away from the excitement around the Watch House. His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine against things. - Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

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Front End Friday with Judy and Elinor Louise youtu.be/7evmDUaBsBg

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#todaysoffice - thanks to #Jorvik & my MT6 my first day actually WORKING in a café that I travelled to with no lift and no public transport since 2014! It felt really good. Prepping for tomorrow's @wearethemu.bsky.social EC meeting. #disabled but definitely not #unable

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From the archives #tailendtuesday on the FeckHallBahn 1) Ronnie, light engine crests the summit on the old Vogelscheiße Incline 2) Loch Crinan storms through Raseenmäher Überfahrt Junction with a well loaded mixed freight for Kirschbaumimwald.

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“When people say “We must move with the times,” they really mean “You must do it my way.”” - Terry Pratchett, Fifth Elephant

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Thanks to @yorkshirebylines.co.uk for publishing my poem this morning. 🙏

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#standingmutelysunday Tiefeshorn yard and workshop #gardenrailway #16mmscale #narrowgauge #railwaymodel

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Wordle 1,358 4/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Daily Crosswordle 1144: 1m 29s ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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#frontendfriday on (and near) the FeckHallBahn

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Goodbye, dear upright piano. You served 3 generations of my family well and were the centre of much love. You will live on in other pianos who need your components so that they can live. Fare thee well old friend

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Unexpectedly back on the market due to time wasting 'buyers' www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

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#standingmutelysunday Tiefeshorn in the Spring sun

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Lovely afternoon tricycling around Worcestershire lanes on my Jorvik Tricycles of York JMT 6. Only slightly marred by falling off, while parked, when I stopped to buy some chocolate. Mind the slope!!

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Sunny #sideonsaturday youtu.be/5FTARIoVqE8 Regner 0-4-0VBT Schönes Pferd with an anticlockwise mixed, Timpdon railcar Frau Doyle on a clockwise passenger service. Gloriously sunny day #gardenrailway #steamtrain

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Steam on Sunday - Loch Crinan bows out in style youtu.be/2moCiT-Z--Q A fabulous running session on the FeckHallBahn with Accucraft Caradoc 0-4-0T, Loch Crinan. 480 yards covered, 5.2 scale miles. She's now boxed up ready for the move. #steaminthegarden #gardenrailway #steam #trains

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And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

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#discworld #terrypratchett

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Really excited to be a part of this @royalbirmcons.bsky.social www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoir...

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#discworld #terrypratchett Repent!’” Nanny Ogg went on. “Repent? Me? Cheek! I can’t start repenting at my time of life. I’d never get any work done. Anyway,” she added, “I ain’t sorry for most of it." "Carpe Jugulum"

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