Perfect ModelsFriday, 12th March 2004 |
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As schoolboys my brother Bill and I constructed a model railway which
we populated with Airfix 1/72nd scale civilians, zoo animals and farm
animals. The trains never ran on time. They were secondhand and we hadn't
the technical skill to get them back in working order. But the scenery
was spectacular.
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It's
not surprising that the ponies in the meadow appear so frequently in my
diary: as I sit at my built-in desk, under the large skylight window,
they appear about the size you see them here: around an inch high. It's
as if I had a shelf above the desk with three model farmyard animals on
it.
They're
standing perfectly still - that's rare: they're usually scrapping with
one another - waiting for their afternoon feed of hay. When they've had
their fill they wander off out of sight.
Of
course after this morning's snow and cavorting around in that mud they're
not as glossily perfect as their scale model counterparts.