Good night at Colins house on Tuesday - no Charles, as he is still recovering from minor surgery that he had done last week. Hopefully he will be up and about in a few days.
Colin had set up his N gauge shunting plank, and we gave it a good exercise. No pictures, though I did take a couple of video clips - but I've yet to figure out how to post them on here!

I did take a couple of shots of Colins 009 locos, as they had just been fitted with brass name plates:

Not as clear as I would like - I hadn't realized that the camera had focused on the pound coin instead of the loco, but you get the idea...

As a change from railways, Col showed us a couple of Youtube videos of people making camping stoves from aluminium drink cans - fascinating stuff, but what was even better, Colin went on to show us ones that he had made himself. I didn't think to photograph them, but on just an egg-cup full of meths, you can boil half a pint of water in less than five minutes!
The whole idea of it is to reduce the load when backpacking - just a 2" can and a small bottle of fuel, instead of all the usual camping stove paraphernalia.

Here at home I'm having a bash at 16.5 narrow gauge, to make things easier on the eyesight, following Pats lead with the layout that he showed at the Woolen Mill last month.
So far I've got the track down:

and scratch built a couple of wagons:

Finally, just to prove we aren't joking about Colins Sunday hobby, here he is proudly showing off his mighty organ....

Ended the evening with an excellent snack of pizza, sausage rolls, and salad, prepared and served by Col's wife Marianne.