How I came to be here.

Having been recalled to prison for a 'breach of licence conditions for which there was no evidence', I completed the whole of the prison sentence inside and was finally released back in May. Since then I have had a number of brick walls to break down and I have hand written notes about that time which I will transcribe but probably on the main LSCES website blog. I what to keep this thread to more model engineering related material. Such irritations as the fact that when I went into prison I had a collection of 45mm gauge trains and carriages, which James had stored for safe keeping, but which with various moves have been spirited away. I still have a couple of the Isle of Man Railway carriages along with some larger carriages from one of the other lines. I need to get into the loft and check exactly what is left. The list of precisely what was stolen is not available as the machines with it on had been seized the police following my original arrest. Today I am still trying to recover material from them that is not illegal and on Tuesday I finally have an appointment to see just what has finally been cleared to be returned. However since getting out, they have already seized a further machine which I had recovered all of the material that was available such as the MEDW website and others such as Graham Ovenden's ones which I feel it is important to restore following his death back in December 2022. Since the recent seizure I have rebuilt the other server and that is currently supporting these active websites. Rainbow Digital Media is being used still as the framework for web services and the current active sites are listed on the status site. I will tidy up things across all the sites as time permits. In the short term I am working on tidying away material do not need paper copies of and hence the move to digitize the remaining copies of Model Engineer and other sets of magazines. That the police are still sitting on my original magazine library is yet another irritation going forward, but some of you may have found the library of magazines being sold on ebay. I would question it's legality but it fills gaps in my own collection which I had been scanning from my own copies over the last 20 odd years. The process is documented on Model Engineers Library and progress will be discussed in future blogs, one of which will follow this shortly. In the meantime I need to also produce a proper TODO list covering all my jobs to be done.