The PM character (such as it is) is nothing like JM, so I'd say that's a publisher's edit requirement for reprints as all JM had going for him was his Spitting Image puppet - anyway it's fiction so you have to use your imagination
The PM character (such as it is) is nothing like JM, so I'd say that's a publisher's edit requirement for reprints as all JM had going for him was his Spitting Image puppet - anyway it's fiction so you have to use your imagination
The PM character (such as it is) is nothing like JM, so I'd say that's a publisher's edit requirement for reprints as all JM had going for him was his Spitting Image puppet - anyway it's fiction so you have to use your imagination
Nothing wrong with trains Pip I grew up out west as a "Railway Kid" Dad was a fettler then he became a ganger you know what that means huh? YEP! HE was in charge of the trikes!!!!!! I had five older brothers so Dad would let us take out the old push/pull trike (it was the spare as they had electric trikes) and we would hook up the cart behind it. As the trains only ran twice a week, and it was near the end of the line it was pretty safe. Word would spread that Mr. R had let his sons take the trike out and kids from ALL over town would turn up begging to come for a ride He He He When we were a few miles out of town, the boys would suddenly GASP! "Oh God! I forgot! There is a special due through today! An express!" Would scare the crap outta the town kids! Then they would pull the trike up and put their ears to the lines (ala the Lone Ranger and Tonto) ... "I think I can hear the train!!!!" Some kids would be crying .. HA HA HA Never seen town kids push and pull so damn fast in your life Pip! We would come screaming into the Rail Station with sparkes flying from the wheels. Dad and the Stationmaster would blast the boys for going to fast and endangering lives, til one of the town kids would tell them about the express coming and Dad would say "Yes, well it got cancelled!", ground my brothers from the trike for a month and they would walk off shaking trying not to laugh.
Nothing wrong with trains Pip I grew up out west as a "Railway Kid" Dad was a fettler then he became a ganger you know what that means huh? YEP! HE was in charge of the trikes!!!!!! I had five older brothers so Dad would let us take out the old push/pull trike (it was the spare as they had electric trikes) and we would hook up the cart behind it. As the trains only ran twice a week, and it was near the end of the line it was pretty safe. Word would spread that Mr. R had let his sons take the trike out and kids from ALL over town would turn up begging to come for a ride He He He When we were a few miles out of town, the boys would suddenly GASP! "Oh God! I forgot! There is a special due through today! An express!" Would scare the crap outta the town kids! Then they would pull the trike up and put their ears to the lines (ala the Lone Ranger and Tonto) ... "I think I can hear the train!!!!" Some kids would be crying .. HA HA HA Never seen town kids push and pull so damn fast in your life Pip! We would come screaming into the Rail Station with sparkes flying from the wheels. Dad and the Stationmaster would blast the boys for going to fast and endangering lives, til one of the town kids would tell them about the express coming and Dad would say "Yes, well it got cancelled!", ground my brothers from the trike for a month and they would walk off shaking trying not to laugh.
Nothing quite so much fun for me. I recreated routes which had been ripped up in ireland to sell scrap to Nazi germany to see how useful they would be in terms of rural transport in the west of ireland now. Boring.
