Dear Santa

I have been a good little boy this year, therefore for Christmas this year can I have INSANITY for my present, if so don't bother wrapping the present, just download it straight into my noggin

Waiting in hopeful anticipation your greatest fan

Paul aged 39 and a half.................

I don't remember writing the letter to the Fat man, but regardless he has come through and delivered my present early I am now officially off my trolley. Yes I have threw aside the shackles of sanity and I'm well on my way to decorating the rooms of the house with that lovely padded wall paper, wearing one of those lovely coats that fastened up the back, and writing my name with a crayon using my foot, all I can say is WIBBLE.......

In my last post, I displayed the progress I have been making on the creation of some Parcel vans to add to the stock list, will it gets worst.......all my multiple personalities have now decided they want to get in on the act, and have since decided to start projects of there own, therefore the production list now includes.....

1. Parcels vans, of the 4 potential builds 2 are nearly at the paint stage, 1 is nowhere near even being suitable for conversion, and 1 accidentally got stuck to my hand (Superglue you cant live without it)

2. I recently decided to add a little extra lining to one of my maroon compounds, after much shaking of hands, I then decided to fully line a second example I had sprayed in maroon that was to be converted to a 2P or 3P, I now need to number this and apply a lot of weathering to hide the lining (its terrible a picture of which would scare even the most hardened of modellers)

3. A recent exhibition purchase provided me with another late model Loco powered Black 5 at a very reasonable cost, so it needs my usual treatments.

4. A rather unsuccessful Flea Bay adventure resulted in the acquisition of an older Farish Black 5, which I was thinking about converting into either a Caprotti version (maybe on a hall chassis) which would mean I have a spare Black 5 chassis, which could be used for.......

5. After reading an article on breakdown trains I have now parts to form the jib, and have mental plans knocking around for the rest of the build.

6. Yet another Flea Bay expedition has resulted in yet another late model Black 5, and wait for it a kit built Standard 4 mogul, don't worry the terrible body will be condemned to the bin (as far as I am concerned nothing good happened after nationalisation ) which means I could use the body from the older Black 5, the chassis from the Std 4 and try and cobble together a Stanier Mogul

Oh and I have to do all the decorating for the Domestic Overlord, but household DIY is not that important is it, though I think the other half thinks it stands for DONE IT YET....

I wonder if my newly delivered insanity will result in my being committed to a room to spend my days just modelling, I would ask myself this question, but I, me, him and the other fella's all occupying my head, had a massive argument last night, and one of us has been thrown out, one of us is sulking, one of us is only communicating via a 3rd person and the rest of us are enjoying the silence.

Until next time as ever Happy WIBBLE...