Well here we are again - Wednesday morning, and another Chuffer-duffers meeting come and gone.
We met at Charles house last night, where we take a welcome break from the never-ending trials and tribulations of railway modelling and have a pleasant evening socialising instead...

I forgot to take my camera, forgot to have a pen in my pocket, and only remembered at the last minute to change out of my slippers before leaving the house. If only I could remember how to worry about losing my whatever it's called - but there you go, it's all part of growing old!

So - no camera, so no picture of the excellent spread provided for us all by Charles' wife. A very tasty home-made pate and salad, washed down with beers by Charles and myself, and a copious quantity of red wine consumed by the other two reprobates.
Suffice to say we all enjoyed ourselves!

On to more important stuff.
The directors of the Teifi Gorge Railway Company felt that the small 5 ton manual crane at Forest Quarry was not really up to the work required of it, so they offered it at a knock-down price to the St Dogmaels saw-mill, and commissioned The Herrington Light Industrial Locomotive Company to manufacture a more substantial steam driven crane to take the place of the aforementioned manual one.
This new state of the art piece of machinery was duly delivered last night, and by this morning was up and running.

Several photographs of this mechanical marvel in operation can be seen below:

Later on in the morning the work started in earnest, with no less than three of the TGR locomotives pressed into duty:

 

 On to other matters, panic has now set in, as our good friend Pete Towns (who serves exceedingly good cakes at Login Station at weekends) asked me would it be possible for him to have the Login layout for September the 30th... Yes of course, I glibly replied (no f'kin way! gasped my inner voice...) However, I figured if I knuckled down it could be halfway presentable.

Watch this space.

Colins next week. See you all then.