Please may I be excused not making any more progress and not updating the blog recently? I've had to do that nasty work thing they make me do in good modelling time. On the plus side, I've only got 8 hours tomorrow, then I'm off until Friday at 5pm, and my brother's coming to see me tomorrow for a couple of days, and then I've got to entertain some children during half term, so I think a bout of Ben playing on my trains while I tidy the basement and lay more track and solder stuff together and what have you is in order.

I used to be terrified that he would break things, but in all honesty, as long as I keep the particularly special things safe for playing with only by me or only while I'm close by and hands on, he can play with what he will. While I've always been into prototypicality to a degree, if he grows into it all well and good, if not, then let's make a completely fantasy layout for him. He likes dragons and knights and dinosaurs and things, so the possibilities are appealing. Maybe a large scale garden fantasy layout with the Bachmann G scale stuff I've got. That would be fun. And big enough that he can build stuff and paint it without having to worry too too much about balance.

That's all for now, up early in the morning for another nasty early shift.