Tuesday March 24th.
Colins tonight, where we almost completely stripped Pats loco in an attempt to get a new motor to fit. Note the word 'attempt'...
Col has made a cracking scratch built 009 loco on a Minitrix chassis but unfortunately I never had my camera to take pictures of it. Maybe next week. Wine, beer and quiche in the lounge where we watched a DVD of Fred Dibnah exploits. Most entertaining.
Since then I've made a bit more progress on the TGR - wiring almost completed on the Cilgerran board, including the switch and plug panel.

The next task, which will be for Pat and Colin to tackle will be installing the turn-table (in that hole on the bottom left hand corner.
Finally a picture of St Dogmaels station, now firmly fixed in position.

Tuesday the 17th of March - we met here at Ffynnonwen. No Chas, as he spent the day going up to North wales and back. He missed out on home-made Thai salmon fish cakes... ce la vie (I can't be arsed to do the accents).
We made good progress in just an hour on the TGR, managing to get all the points operational. Pic below of one half of the board:

We then retired to the back kitchen for food and a bottle of Portugese red (and finished off some Spanish bottle that needed using up). Colin was rationed as he was driving!

Tuesday evening's meeting was hosted by Charles - very enjoyable wine and cheese spread, and as a break from railwaying we had a good discussion about what to do with Charles' balls...
Interesting collection of video clips on the screen in Chas's (never sure about the apostrophe, is it one or two esses...) study, on varied subjects - robotics, humour and balls (don't ask)

On other matters, I posted a thread on 'YourModelRailway' forum featuring Colins Traction Engine. It got lots of praise, deservedly so.

And lastly, my tomato seedlings have appeared. One of these will be yours Charles!

FAREWELL KILGERRAN

Goodbye, Kilgerran! Emyr called in yesterday and collected the layout. I gave him full instructions on how to set it up and operate it, and it gets its first public (sort of) airing today (Saturday 7th) in Cilgerran Village Hall where they are holding a Welsh Language Society meeting.

Emyr hopes he will be able to store it in the hall, rather than cart it back home each time.