Next meeting is in two weeks time, Tuesday the 17th of March (Saint Patricks day, and the day before I officially become an 'old person' - or so I am informed. But we wont dwell on that...)
Nothing planned specifically for the meeting, just a general discussion around the table regarding the year ahead, and what ideas we can all come up with for future meetings.
At Login, as usual, and the computer/projector etc. will be available should anyone have anything visual to share with us on the night.
On to Chuffers.
Storm Dennis blew through a couple of weeks ago, and this was the view from your bloggers front window - compare it with the heading photo.
The waters rapidly receded though, without divine intervention - although I was marooned for two days.
But thats all by-the-by.
We haven't done a lot of modelling - at least, three of us haven't, which can't be said for our honourary member Pete, the Login Station Master. But more of that later.
Colin has been busy with other things, namely making camping stoves from aluminium cans.
He gave me a couple to try out, and here they are, fired up.
Using methanol fuel, obtained from B & Q, and a baked bean tin to boil water in (I didn't have a suitable saucepan), each of these little stoves boiled enough water for a full mug of tea in less than 5 minutes.
And here they are:
The larger of the two, I was able to sit my tin of water straight on top:
Whilst for the smaller one, Colin had provided a small wire trivet:
There are a host of Youtube videos all about constructing these stoves, and a whole variety of designs. The amount of fuel required for a ten minute burn amounts to less than an egg-cup full.
Not only for camping, but an idea to keep in mind for winter power cuts !
Now on to the Station Master. As you may have gathered from our little blog, Pete has more than a passing interest in some obscure narrow gauge railway that once ran somewhere down in devon...😉
Looking through his collection of books on the iconic line, one of the pictures of the Lynton and Barnstaple showed a coal lorry at one of the stations.
Intrigued with this, Peter trawled around the internet and found this:
And made this!!!
Not only that, he has progressed with the scratch building of more of the periphial buildings around the L & B stations:
and the platform name boards for Woody bay:
We find it all very embarrassing!
All we did last night was lounge around in the sitting room watching DVDs and then indulge in a home brewed Lamb Bhuna...
What can I say?
Must try harder...
Tarah,
Shaun.
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