Good morning everyone, and a lovely one it is, despite the problems the World is undergoing at the moment.

No Cardi-Bach Society news, naturally, as all that type of activity has been put on hold. The ChufferDuffers however have been out on the duly allowed exercise.

I take a daily walk alongside what is historically referred to as the Llechryd Canal - actually it's a sort of mill leat that runs alongside the Teifi and was used to feed the tinplate works at Castle Malgwyn.
Dried up in most places, there is a short stretch, 100 yards or so, that stays wet for most of the time.
Ducks frequent it, and I managed this shot yesterday - mother mallard and ducklings in 'line ahead':

Colin e-mailed some pictures through that he and Marianne had taken at the weekend when they took their walk along the Teifi Gorge.
You may recall a section of our Teifi Gorge layout that passes through a quarry section - this is it back at the turn of the century when production was in full swing:

Colins walk took them past the remains of the old quarry workings, and you can see the slate slabs quite clearly in this picture Colin grabbed:

as well as the spoil that was left at the base of the cliff, also apparent in our model rendition, which you can see in the small picture above.

As they progressed further along the path that followed the old line, they came to the remains of the building that the quarry workers had used all those years ago:

Turning back and walking down in the opposite direction, Colin and Marianne followed the path that our Teifi Gorge Railway would have taken after it had left Cilgerran and carried on to Newcastle Emlyn. We have yet to model that section of the line - that is yet to come!

Many thanks to Colin for those images. Meanwhile Chuffer Pat has been rootling about in his cupboard full of railway ephemera, and blew the dust off this old gem:

Being rather tired of the continual repeats on offer on the idiots lantern in the corner of the lounge, Pat and his wife Mary sorted out the 1000 pieces, and in no time at all produced this:

And all without looking at the box lid once... ( yeah, I believe you Pat...)


Pat is also the only Chuffer who has been productive on the modelling front - he had these 3D printed figures from his son Daniel and also Merlin Models, and has painted them ready for posing on the 7mm layout.
The leg had broken off from one of the figures so Pat very cleverly adapted it:

Finally a couple of images taken at the West Wales Modellers Exhibition last summer - one of Login, and one of the Bronwydd Arms Layout:

And to finish we have a quick video of drone footage courtesy of Wicked West Films taken of Llechryd Bridge showing the flooding experienced during Storm Dennis, a couple of months ago.

Thats it for this week - hope you are all well, and coping with the trials and tribulations that this pandemic is putting us through.

Bye for now,

Chuffer blogger Shaun.