Last Duffer meeting in October was held at Pat's - it should have been here at Ty Nant, but unfortunately the river Teifi decided to pay us a call a couple of weeks ago, so access was a bit difficult... Compare this picture with the heading photo.
 This was mid afternoon - by six it had reached the house, but too dark to take pictures.

 Next morning:

This was taken the morning after the flood, when the water had receded. You can see the watermark on the garage wall... We are normally 25 foot above the river level. Car and carpets written off, but we were much more fortunate than a lot of other residents.

Back to ChufferDuffers - this blog is about model railways, after all.

The diesel loco that you saw in the last post now boasts a cab. Pat has been busy cutting and glueing Plasticard this past week, and showed us his efforts in place on the  Maes y Gof layout. It has yet to have a roof and a paint job, but it runs superbly, and can be seen in action on Sunday November 18th at the Hermon Model Exhibition.

 Dai the guard is a bit non-plussed, wondering how the engine arrived without a driver

One other victim of the flood was the Teifi Gorge layout - never thought the Teifi would affect it!
The two village boards were stored standing on end on 2" battens - not enough - the water came up a foot. I dried them off in the sunshine 'apres le deluge' and they don't look too bad. I'll test the electrics in the next week or so and hopefully we can show it at Roger's Expo on the 18th.

Hope to see you there,
Shaun.