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I was going to suggest the older Observers Airline series but the landscape format makes it wrong Steve. Hope you find what you are looking for mate.

Sandy Denny's band when she left Fairport.

The TCT with Zak Starkey on drums. Would have loved to have seen the 1969!

The best show I've seen from a pure spectacle was Pink Floyd at Earls Court (all gone now) . They did some great tracks had a 15 minute intermission and came back and played the whole of The Dark Side of the Moon. It was all filmed. Never seen a duff show, seen Clapton many times but for sheer excitement - The Who at the Albert Hall right at the front. When I was in the racket I used to fortunately get comped to lots of shows along with a chauffeured car.

Man vegetables?? Great filter! 🤣

Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie The Velvet Underground and Nico - VU The Clash - eponymous first album Never Mind the man-vegetables - Sex Pistols

Hardly any alcohol nowadays. I got a bit too fond of the stuff and had to make a concerted effort to knock it on the head. That said a nice IPA when dining out is a pleasure.

I've been a player for many decades now. Just bought another recently, a Fender Modified '60's Strat in Burgundy mist as Strats are really my thing. I also have a 1989 Fender US Standard I bought new and still have and a '60's Classic series in Cerulean blue and a '70's in Olympic white (my Jimi guitar). Not forgetting my 2004 Gibson Les paul plus in vintage sunburst.

About half way through CJ Sansom's Tombland. It's a big book, 800 pages and I'm already immersed in it. He really brings the middle ages to life with true and historically accurate characters and incidents. I'd read a couple previously (Dissolution and Sovereign) and this one appeared in a local charity shop so I had to have it.

Sad news indeed. RIP Steve.

When my last son left home I nicked his old double bedroom for a music room/ modelling room. It's full of guitars and amps etc but I have a fold down table for modelling when the muse takes me.

It can take quite a long while to get back to normal Paul. I think it probably took me around three months. Still not altogether perfect now but as least I can turn my head when walking without feeling like I am going to fall over. 😲 All the best mate.

Just started The Hardest Day about one day (18th August 1940) in the Battle of Britain. A charity shop purchase, I am enjoying it enormously as I have always lived near both Kenley and Biggin Hill.

Sorry to hear about your vertigo Paul it is an incredibly debilitating condition. I got a bout of it last year in the USA and I couldn't move for a week, just lying in bed feeling incredibly sick. Went to hospital, drip in arm and had a CT scan which was fine, Tablets prescribed but I was still uneasy on my feet for a fortnight after. It can sometimes take a while to go but it will go. All the best.

I remember the Woolies at West Croydon. Funnily enough my Nan would buy me plastic bag Airfix kits off the stand from Woolies South Norwood SE25. I think the posh new development in Croydon you mention may have been St George's walk that had a Model Time IIRC. I used to look in the window on the way to school. Later on there was a Beatties opposite Marks and Spencer in Croydon high street North end. Good days.

Beautiful work @stevej60. 👍

Superb with great detailing. I do like a Crusader.

Lovely work. I do like to see these old kits.

I bought this a while back when Aldi had them but just got round to building it. A nice little kit it goes together well. The desert camo and the fact that it was Neville Duke's steed made it a bit more interesting. Hand painted with the brush and paint supplied with the kit so definitely OOB. Not up to the standard of the sort of stuff I usually see on here including the photography - but it was done in a few hours in true schoolboy style!

That's a cracker. I remember building the Airfix version back in the dark ages.

That's an unusual one. Very nice work.

Some very nice weathering there - lovely job.

Can't forget mine as it is "The Glorious 12th of August". We've been married for donkey's years but never made a thing out of it TBH.

Just a wonderful series of books. I am a big fan of Waugh. I don't know if you have read it but his first Decline and Fall is absolutely brilliant and was made into a superb series starring Jack Whitehall and others in the recent past. - Hilarious.

Just started Dave Grohl's book I got from my local charity shop (3 books for £1!). Very promising so far.