Good evening - noswaith dda - to everybody.

Second blog of February, and nearly twelve months of pandemic driven upheaval. No exhibitions, no Cardi-Bach meetings, and no Chufferduffers get-togethers either. But being British we soldier on...

Change of a castle picture heading the blog once again. For those who didn't get the last one it was Kidwelly. Or Kidwelli, depending on which sign you look at. Well worth a vist

New one is up there now is once again in Carmarthenshire. With a view of the towy valley from the battlements.

I paid a socially distanced call on Emyr our Chairman, during the week, and took this picture of his topiary work which will eventually become a loco and wagons on the Cardi-Bach:

I think it may be a year or two before the smoke stack reaches the desired height, but already it is recognisable!

While I was at Emyr's, knowing that Bethan, Emyr's wife, did a lot of needlework I asked her if she had any very fine gauze which I wanted to use to represent wire mesh for level crossing gates.

She came up trumps, and here is the result, the two gates for Rhydowen...

A good bit of gauze left, which is handy, as there are another seven level crossings to think about!

Patrick meanwhile has been quite busy adding to his 00 gauge display, with a couple of purchases, a Hornby 4 wheel coach, complete with magnetically operated interior lighting, and a small Rushton Diesel, again a Hornby product:

The Classic car show is now in full swing, and has almost reached capacity, with commercial vehicles parking across the line in the station yard - 

Among the celebrities that were spotted, we saw Rick Stein enjoying a plate of barbequed sewin outside the hotel:

and outside the post office we caught sight of Chairman Emyr posting his latest Ebay sale, having driven up in his Land Rover (without it's canvas)

Up in Pat's railway room, the 0 gauge layout is growing in leaps and bounds. More additions to Patricks collection of tin plate vehicles are these two shown below - a breakdown lorry and a traction engine, both clockwork powered, and painstakingly restored to working order.

They can be seen here on the hill leading up to the village sitting on top of the hillside with the railway running through tunnels below:

and talking of the railway running below, we have a quick and noisy video of the trains running around the vintage three rail system.

Definition is still not the best, as I forgot to adjust the camera settings...(again)

I guess that is about the lot for this edition - Hwyl fawr,

Shaun.