BIG IDEAS

I have not managed to do much in the way of modelling lately. The natural light has diminished now and my halogen lamp, which came from a car boot sale, has finally decided to pack up. Without it my old eyes simply aren't good enough to continue, so I have been checking out some awesome stuff on You Tube. There is a video of a 1:7 scale Apache helicopter with moving pilot, gunner, target locator and gun, as well as being well detailed, fantastic. There are numerous clips of 1:4 and 1:6 scale radio controlled tanks which are brilliant. If only I had the cash and the space to build one and the truck I would need to transport one of those 200kg monsters. I have been spending more time on the computer than ever and am sure this is down to the fact that there is so little worth watching on TV. We british seem obsessed with hospitals 3 hours of these each week at prime time. The Downton Abbey series seems to fascinate for some reason, why are we so interested in stories about a world of the have and have nots and the class ridden society which plagued our past. It also seems that we need to know as much about the American election as the average American citizen as it dominates vast sections of our domestic news programmes. I wonder if there is coverage of our elections in America. I somehow doubt it, although I will never find out, having never been there and having no money or even a passport am never likely to find out. There is one other reason of course, like Frankie Boyle, I am terrified of flying and have never set foot on an aeroplane. This fear is nearly as rational of my fear of snakes, which I have only ever seen on TV, although I did see one in Scotland, but this is disputed by the rest of the family who insist it was a slow worm. I didn't hang around long enough to confirm my suspicion. There are one or two programmes that I do enjoy, DCI Banks, Wanted and the great American series Homeland, now in its second season. Ah well that's life. One thing is or sure I know more about the presidential election than I do about the forthcoming election of police commissioners in England,