Well done! Envious as hell...

It's somewhere you store/rummage for junk in a house, typically chaotic and over-full. A good example is the cupboard under the stairs. But I wouldn't confirm this by Googling it...

Autism, immigrants, KIrk, whatever. It doesn't matter. Anything, absolutely anything at all, to distract folk from Epstein....

Sounds good. As it happens, I actually am a signalman on a heritage railway (Strathspey Railway, Scotland). Like the SVR and many other preserved lines, we earn a useful amount by selling ourselves to film and TV companies for period locations.

It wasn't red in the film. It appeared in the film in its original green GWR livery and with its original number 5764. It had passed to BR at nationalisation; when they'd finished with it, they sold it to London Transport, who numbered it L95. More here - preservedbritishsteamlocomotives.com/5764-2/

Some years ago I overheard a fellow guest at a Lakes B&B complaining to the hill farmer owner that it had rained continuously since his arrival from Surrey. The farmer took a moment to light his pipe, looked the yuppie up and down, and replied - "Where do you think the bloody lakes come from, then?"

I hated it before it was fashionable...

Think yourself lucky. Britain is being run into the ground by a bunch of "TV never were beens".

£90,000 per year for an MP and the best they can come up with is electronic lice.

One of the spooky things about some of JAG's paintings is that you can't tell if the figures are moving away or coming towards you...

National Railway Museum
Merchant Adventurers' Hall

Do whatever works for you. Not only is it therapeutic, but nothing pisses the fascists off more than folk running their own lives just as they want to...