Tim said: >Encourage her to engage in wife swapping No way! Swap means I get something else! Now she is a trainer by profession - teaches people how to use software to design silicon chips, and trains Guide leaders. Maybe we could set up a profitable sideline in training model engineers wives on how to look after model engineers? Being a radio amateur as well, she doesn't complain about me buying test equipment, either. When we both get the time from work, the idea is to build a Sweet Pea between us. She is the only person ever to have driven both Crofton Beam Engines (world's oldest working steam engine - the Birmingham museum one doesn't work, just goes up and down!) and Lion, the world's oldest working locomotive. The honeymoon was the Severn Valley Railway, the Tal-y-Llyn Railway and the Ffestiniog Railway..... Peter Chadwick, currently in Stockholm. MODEL ENGINEERING DISCUSSION LIST. To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, send a blank email to, modeleng-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line.