It seems that I have to decorate the kitchen before I can carry on with the important work. But it's all more thinking time so that when I get the paint sprayer off a colleague so I can sort the ceiling and walls out, I should be able to get track beds cut and the track down. I sometimes think my proposed track plan (which hasn't really changed from the masking tape posted earlier) is too simple, but I can always stick a siding or two in for a loco at the end. And any excitement I need I can get from a low level yard. The possibilities are endless. I just hope I don't get bored of what I do. I haven't yet, I think mainly because I like watching the trains go by. In due course, I plan to have computer control and some degree of automatic operation. Not sure yet whether to go for occupancy detection or that thing like Hornby have where you programme a set of movements in. All more stuff to think about while I am painting.