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A Year in Review—the small stuff

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As 2024 staggers to an end it’s become something of a tradition for TV news channels to review the past twelve months. It tends to be a reminder of bad times, death and destruction, and rarely of anything to celebrate. I always think such reviews smack of cheap production to fill time more than anything else. I dislike the things.

Why then, if I dislike such reviews, do I want to look over the past year from my perspective?

Consider this a quick and easy way to post something to my blog. I’ve currently run out of ideas of other things to write about. More accurately, I have lots of ideas, but some will take a while to work up to sensible posts.

What follows is a brief look over my modelmaking year of 2024. It’s not exactly going to set the world alight, and I am frankly surprised and a little annoyed at such a paucity of things to show you.

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My obsession

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I have made reference to my obsession before. This is a rather lengthy post, for which I apologise. It does, however, explain what my obsession is. Please don’t feel obliged to read it all. I won’t mind if you skip it!

What is my obsession?

In the late 1970s I attended a comprehensive secondary school. It was about the time that we teenagers were being encouraged to think about the world of work. My hope was to leave school and enlist in what was then the Women’s Royal Air Force and go into Air Traffic Control. (This didn’t happen in the end. Life took me in a very different direction.) The history syllabus at the time covered British history from the start of the Industrial Revolution through to the end of the Second World War. It was this history syllabus that led me to the events of the summer of 1940. I chose the Battle of Britain as my CSE History coursework project.

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