The more things I post, there will be a recurring theme of other people's (namely family) involvement in what I do, and generally to the negative of what I'm trying to achieve. I thought it only involved things like high end camera systems and expensive hardware, but today, I realised that it also extends to the creative stuff that I do as well.

After being in and out all morning doing bit jobs, and spending the intermediate time between runs painting a loco up, and also doing some board work, I popped out for the final run of the day... More political stuff. On returning back to the office, thinking "Up these photos, go to the bar, come back and talk English for 25€ an hour later on..." I wandered in to my office/studio/landfill.

Lo and behold, we'd had a visit from the family, this was apparent to start with some chunks of ply on the floor and corresponding steel rule sized dents in the board I'd built and wired last night and painted up this morning... So the radar is on now, hunting... And I found the loco what I'd been painting up not where I'd left it and had finger marks in the smooth layer of varnish along the tanks... Yep, my nieces!

I don't have any trouble with my adoptive family, but the family seem to have the biological failings of the eyes and the fingers being the one and the same thing.

It also leaves me with a delay in the layout I was talking about this morning, as I've got to go in to town (next available day for that is Saturday), to get another section of ply for the top and this is where it becomes problematic. The more I leave stuff, the more I think about stuff, and the more I think about it, the plan changes and may end up completely different to what I had in mind.

At least tomorrow, unless the rotation changes I'm going to spend some money, err... No, I'm on a run in Barcelona for a couple of hours early on, and a visit to Barcelona is very dangerous as I always end up with some ballast in the bottom of a lens case! And that in itself can be a bad thing, as I've been known to scrap a whole project for a new bit of shiny...