Does anyone else experience the issue that you "pop" out to the shed for a quick 5 to 10 mins, and by the time you get back 45 mins has gone by in real time?

Is my shed some how travelling some where near the speed of light, or was it just the battery in the clock running out, so the clock was very slow?

Amyway, this did lead to one of those moments where I returned to be faced by with my wife and the jobs I should have been doing. Its a scene you never see in Doctor Who!! I some how doubt this will be the last time I make this mistake !!

In the mean time I managed a few more 5 min jobs done in the evening. I got some old telegraph poles out and put them on the branch line. Looking at them I will replace them as the molding is not that good, but it did help me work out the spacings and get me removing a few more bog brush trees.

I've also started on fixing the buildings in place now that all bar 1 of the houses have their drain pipes fitted. Having use 2 methods to make the house I am finding the card ones easier to attach that the plasticard based ones, so I will pop out on the way home and get some super glue for those.

My other conundrum is the fiddle yard and its awful design. I worked out that I could add 2ft to most of the tracks which in turn increase the overall capacity from 12 trains to 16, BUT can I do this reaching over the backscene without killing the layout. Given I am in the lucky position of having some money saved (plus the sale of some unwanted stock) to spend on new stock I think this will be one of the winter challenges, especially with the upcoming release of a peco 3 way point. (This is one of those moments where time travel really would be useful to fix this mistake before I made it)