Our world in miniature, hobbies

Hello, I'm just popping out for a bite of lunch, but I hope you like my picture of delight. My son Michael was never a destructive child. Involved with toy kit building, he appreciated what went into them. This rebuilt Patriot loco was his eagerly awaited Twelfth birthday present, making it 44 years old. It lacks some of the detailing of the current ready to run models, even so, it looks the part, even with its original mechanism & spamcan motor. I've put a touch of clock oil on the bearings, I don't think that it has ever been run on our Hall Brooks railway. It runs like a dream.

That is a nice picture in the post above Philip, the canal & the railway. This is me today:

Thank you for your picture & kindness. I hope that you are able to keep warm through this coming winter. Quite a cold snap over the next ten days or so. Regards the subject of our model railway, I've had quite an intense period of bits & pieces of late. I'm reminded that there are other subjects & interests so its possibly time for a break before something else catches my eye & attention.

I'm stuck wandering round in circles in the archives, trying to find a property I can pin point.

Actually Helen, I struggle to keep out of the railway room. It's very comfy, just to relax in, maybe shunt a few wagons around whilst I sup a small tipple of Croft pale Sherry. A bit of my favourite chocolate, Green Backs 70% cocoa.

Somebody loves me, the song says! A friend brought me five railway wagons this morning, that belonged to his late father. Ron, who passed away a couple of years ago, often came to have a look at our railway. He travelled far & wide on public transport with his son for years often using rover tickets. He didn't have a railway, but had these five wagons in a cabinet. I'm so heartened. Friendship for me so important. Pam loved the big steam engines. The bigger the better. One of her last gifts to me was a Stanier Duchess locomotive in Crimson colour. It's beautiful, lovely runner, but simply so big for our secondary branch line. My friend John who lives in Holbrooks, loved the loco, the colour in particular. He was going to buy one just have on display, so I asked him if he would like Pam's. After much coaxing, he loves it. I mounted it onto a varnished plinth with weathered track. John wasn't so well recently, but upon a visit, it was a delight for me to see it pride of place in his lounge display cabinet. Hope you like it too. He still has his Ian Allen spotting books.

Today, I've got the Friday feeling. Yet I've never experienced that in past. At dances, the song "Doing the locomotion" was popular, but just now, I'm in the railway room "Doing the trucks". Oh I'm silly, oh so silly.