Welcome to this weeks blog, and the fourth week of enforced incarceration. It does look like it is starting to tail off a bit. Lets hope it ends fairly soon!

Our little gang have been active - well, to a certain degree, anyway.
I have another GWR engine build from Colin, but I shall save that for another blog. Meanwhile he passed on another of his little camping stoves for me to try - made out of a very small Schweppes tonic water can...

It is filled with fibre glass wadding, with a mesh top.
Gently pour in 30ml of methanol, and then hold a lighted match or gas lighter over the top. Within seconds you have a good flame:

put a container of water (or soup...) on the stand, and within 5 - 10 minutes you have boiling liquid.

It doesn't leak, so you can just pop it into a plastic bag and tuck it in your knapsack and off you go (when you are allowed to, that is. At the moment just use it in the back garden and pretend)



Patrick, meanwhile, had acquired an Airfix kit to make a rail bus like this one pictured here:

Pat added roof lights and a motor (not sure what source the motor came from)

Also with the kit were a set of seats to go inside:

Here is the almost completed model complete with the interior lights switched on. The seats and doors have yet to be fitted, together with a suitable selection of passengers, and then everything painted.

Across the river in Llechryd, I put the 7mm layout together, cleaned all the track and had a trial run to check that all was well.
The loco and stock passed with flying colours, and I let it have a good fifteen minute run.
I took the opportunity to take a quick video of it:

I also put Teifi Gorge up in the garage again, as I thought I might do a bit of tidying up on that. It could do with a bit of care and attention after a couple of years of use!


Thats it for this one - see you in the next...

All the best,
Shaun.