Been a bit tardy lately where Chuffers are concerned - I've been busy three days a week at the charity bookshop, and then having to show prospective house-buyers around Ty-nant, which has involved hoovering and polishing and generally tidying up.
I did find time to call in at Pat and Mary's for coffee on Tuesday morning. I took along the usual pot of clotted cream, on the off chance that Pat had made scones...
Even better, as well as scons (skones?) he had made some strawberry flans as well!
My goodness me...
The colesterol has gone off the scale!
More from Chessboard House later on in the blog.
I don't know if I had mentioned previously that Chuffer Mike, up un the foothills had grown a beard?
The similarity to Father Christmas is striking. On a trip up to the village of two saints this week I caught this picture of Mike during a tour of the house extension:
The resemblance is uncanny...
Back in Pat's railway room, Mary had been busy with an old set of Bayko building bricks - who remembers them? come on own up!
Anyway, Mary constructed these two buildings to go on the 0 Gauge layout:
Which Pat duly put through its paces.
No sound on the first clip - I managed to mute the original recording but never had time to find a suitable soundtrack to dub on to it. Here we go_
The second one is noisy! some of you may remember it as being part of the working display that used to be a feature of the Castle Kitchen Restaurant a couple of years ago.
The final clip of the 0 Gauge layout is a freight train trundling around the inner loop whilst the express continues a circuit of the outer ring.
Again, this is muted, but nothing dubbed yet (it does take some time to do)
We end with Llechryd.
Last week Emyr and I went to Login with Emyr's van and collected the Kilgerran and Cardigan layouts, to free-up room in preparation for the big re-vamp.
Kilgerran is now in Cilgerran Village Hall waiting to be set up, whilst Cardigan is here in the garage set up on a support stanchion displaying its nether regions for a bit of tidying up.
That will be our project for the ChufferDuffer meeting here tomorrow evening.
Chicken, fennel and pepper have already been prepared to go with pasta...
That's it for now - comments welcome, as always
Cheerio,
Shaun.
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