Good evening everyone - it's evening here, at least. If you have picked us up in the colonies it could be anytime of day. But that doesn't matter - welcome !

Nearly four weeks since the last post. Back then we met here at Llechryd, but we didn't do a great deal. We got Cardigan up and running, and all ready for the town Council to take it over. Then it was just Youtube, a couple of bottles of red and  the big red pot which this time was full of Coq au Vin, with extra brandy because it was a cold night.

On to this weeks meeting.

We met at Colin's house last night, where Colin had set up part of his N gauge layout - I have shown pictures of this exquisite layout in previous posts, so I wont repeat things. we gave Patrick the controller and he spent a happy half an hour shunting wagons to-and-fro.

A quick video of a passenger train changing platforms ready to go into service:

A couple of the locomotives that were on the layout last night had been scratch built by Colin from bits of plastic, copper tubing and wire. He is very blase about his skill...

An 0-6-2 Prairie tank (I think) on a Farish 0-6-0 chassis with the trailing pony truck scratch built.

The second one shown I'm not sure about, but I'm sure those in the know will be able to identify it (sorry, Colin - I should have paid more attention...)

Bear in mind that these are in N gauge - near as dammit 2mm equaling 1 foot. That little engine is a mere two inches long.

More demonstration of Col's skills - A couple of months ago down at Login, the doors to the museum were open, and a gust of wind blew a display stand onto the Cardigan layout, unfortunately striking the water tower, breaking into a myriad collection of pieces of plastic.

For weeks peter and I  kept the incident secret - he collected the bits, and we fretted over what to do (and keep it secret from Pat). It became common knowledge eventually, as we had to move Cardigan.

Who else to trust the task to but Colin? Our Plasticard guru.

The water tower is now back up as if nothing had happened...

Pete, we can breathe again!

We ended the evening in the time-honoured fashion, with Marianne's now famous salad and pizza (with extra toppings) (and some French red laughing water) I had to make do with orange juice, 'cos I had to drive home...

Bit of information for everybody - Pete has been contacted by a very nice lady called Sharon from Scolton Manor regarding a Model Railway Exhibition next year (Covid 19 allowing, naturally) . She wondered if we would be interested... Does a bear, etc...

She has a link to this blog (hello Sharon) and I told her that we would be happy to exhibit three layouts:

(and Mr Browne is included as part of the layouts, of course)

So watch this space...

Cheerio.

Shaun.