Evenin' all.

How many remember hearing that?  George Warner, Dixon of Dock Green... Shows your age, doesn't it.

Anyway, first the Chuffer blog in the New Year, and the first from Pentrecagal. The new property isn't really photogenic, so I'll change the heading photo from time to time. Here we have a Pembrokeshire castle. No prizes for identifying it...

Not a great deal to offer for this edition - lockdown impositions are curtailing any joint activities, so I have to rely on't t'internet to provide us with content. Unfortunately BT decided that they couldn't wire me up to their system until January 13th (I moved in on December 18th - which was a story in itself, as Patrick will testify - but we wont relate it here)

Suffice to say I'm now connected, albeit dropping from 100 Mb down to a lowly 5 - but Netflix works!

Pat sent through some images of the 0 gauge setup that he has up in his railway room, so we have something to look at.

One of his Christmas presents was a photographic back-scene, which he duly put up against the wall - and here it is:

Another image of it, this time taken from the village up on the hill above the railway:

To enable him to have more control of the layout, several isolation breaks in the permanent way had to be created, and in keeping with the vintage of the layout Pat has utilized  1940's on/off switches - one of which can be seen below -

Thats all I have at the moment, though I believe that Colin has some completed projects that he may well send through to me...? Also I'm sure some additions have been made to the L & B layout over in Login, and no doubt Pete will mail images to me in due course. The old bill might not take kindly to me swanning off 30 miles to take pictures of trains - no matter how essential we might think it is...

 

Here in Pentrecagal I have a spare bedroom that comfortably holds the Teifi Gorge layout - after getting it back out of container storage I set it up, and all was well - there is even just about enough room for the Llechryd extension, but it needs another trestle built before I can attach it.

Layout pictured below (the wall isn't really pink. I'm blaming the new camera)

 

 

 

Another advantage here at the new house is a 'loft' space above the garage. I stuck a few off-cuts of carpet on the floor, put together some Wicke's kitchen units, topped them with the redundant back baseboard from the Login layout, and I have the makings of a hobby workshop...

 

 

There we have it - first blog for 2021.

Sympathies are extended to Duffer Mike up in the hills, who hasn't been too well over the Christmas period, and to C-B Chairman Emyr, who is also experiencing medical problems. Neither of them have Covid-19 though, which is good news.

I can't remember if Dixon said goodnight, or just gave a salute...

 

Cherrio,

Shaun.