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Friday 27th February 2009
The tank landing ship departed Southampton during the late afternoon of 5 June 1944 in a convoy bound for Baie de la Seine
 I can't exactly remember when it was . . . I think I had come back from Australia (the second time) and had some change left from the holiday. This would have been . . . erm . . .Rob? Was it 2003? So I thought, "Yes, I will buy myself a Scalextric set. I've wanted one of those for ages." Me and Tom had many hours of fun with that Scalextric set and, currently, it's in A******'s room (just a basic figure-of-eight track design for now, with a chicane and two cross-overs). But back then, I spoke to Tom about the possibility of mounting some kind of wireless camera thingy on one of the Scalextric cars.  Today I partly (very partly) realised this. With A****** climbing on my back (I've no idea what he was playing at) and R****** trying to eat anything resembling Lego, I managed to construct a kind of trailer made out of Lego for my camera. This, of course, was then attached (by a length of string) to one of the Scalextric cars. Unfortunately, my camera is a bit too heavy and my Scalextric car barely managed a half-lap around the track before disaster set it. This is the closest I could find on Youtube. What's A****** doing in the reindeer gear? Well . . . I'm not sure. That stuff was just there on the floor so he decided to dress himself up. Passes the time, I guess.
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Today I partly (very partly) realised this. With A****** climbing on my back (I've no idea what he was playing at) and R****** trying to eat anything resembling Lego, I managed to construct a kind of trailer made out of Lego for my camera. This, of course, was then attached (by a length of string) to one of the Scalextric cars. Unfortunately, my camera is a bit too heavy and my Scalextric car barely managed a half-lap around the track before disaster set it. This is the closest I could find on Youtube. What's A****** doing in the reindeer gear? Well . . . I'm not sure. That stuff was just there on the floor so he decided to dress himself up. Passes the time, I guess.