Tag: At bloody last!
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Mr Blue Sky…
A good weekend has been had here on the layout with a visit from my mate and his lad. We got the other fascia board on the layout and it’s accompanying end board done. Following this, we had a mess about and settled on the track layout, also working out the positions for the major…
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Some kind of progress.
After a long long time of struggling to get motivated, last week something happened… It’s been five long years since I last attended Model Rail Scotland at the SECC and a lot of water, not all of it kindly has passed under the bridge since then. I decided though that I was going even just…
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St Clements Yard.
After all those years of ideas without a place to build them in, the move last year finally made some material action possible. One of the selling points of the new place was a fully equipped loft which met my needs perfectly. The next stage was to assess the available space, weighing that against my…
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Closer.
You’ll recall in the last post that an offer had been made and accepted for the house. Things have indeed been progressing, slowly until a month ago but then accelerating rapidly to the point that I will be leaving Carlisle finally of the 30th of July. As you’ll have observed, a process of packing and…
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Jumbo victory!
I am pleased to report the final completion of Jumbo 57375 as she is now known. All the major work is now complete. Coupling links and loco-tender coupling await but she is otherwise complete at last. It’s been a long, hard road but here we are at the end. Perseverance has borne the sweet fruit…
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