Hobbies
The Eleventh Shunt
Things have moved on a bit this episode, with some visible progress for once! I must thank you all for your kind words in the unread comments, which do spur me on to do a [more…]
Trains
Hobbies
The Shunting Tenth
Usually around this time of the week I start to think about what I could possibly write about shunting. Most of the emails are cleared, the meetings sorted out, the minutes done etc and the [more…]
Hobbies
9. Shunting again
Once more a piece about Trains while the world of news whirls around us like a Tornado… I had a less active week this week, having been distracted by the installation of Telegram and the [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Seventy Six
Monday Morning all. Well, it’s AstraZeneca day at last. The rollout started this morning and fittingly the first person to vaccinated with the Oxford-AstraZeneca developed vaccine was 82-year-old dialysis patient, Brian Pinker, in an Oxford [more…]
Hobbies
Shunting up and down – Episode 8
We left this saga with some success and some frustrations. The track was mocked up in parts, with the track tester showing where more work was required (particularly around points). I’d made a ham fisted [more…]
Hobbies
Shunting Along – part 7
The run up to Christmas involved a few days helping out at Tanfield Railway – long hours and endless sanitising Santa’s Grotto meant not a great deal of work was done on the layout. Once [more…]
Hobbies
5. Shunting forward
We last left the challenge with the track due to arrive. JandJmodels.co.uk was closed due to lockdown, so having spare time, delivered the track in person. Peco had finally managed to manufacture a new set [more…]
Hobbies
Shunting on again – part 4
We left this tale of woe with some constructed baseboards, track on order and awaiting a chip for the loco. One good thing – three baseboards make an excellent workspace where items quickly spread to [more…]
Hobbies
Shunting about – part 3
With three baseboards built and fitted together and a fourth ready to go, we have a stable base for the layout. Yes, another two boards will be added later to give a full loop but [more…]