Someone said to me in an exchange of opinions over the interweb recently that no-one did any proper railway modelling anymore as the standard of the ready to run stuff you could buy was so high these days all you needed to make a cracking good model was a healthy bank balance.
Interesting point of view but not one I personally go along with as there is so much more to the hobby than having good looking models .
However when I put the wagon castings from Woodham Wagon Works on to ebay I
Well its taken me long enough . I have been buying on ebay for several years but never felt confident enough about my computer skills to try any selling.
Anyway since I started the Cancer Charity Wagon Project I needed to find a good way of marketing and although selling through the forums I belong to has been good I could not reach as big a target audience as I would like . I felt that as people were being kind enough to give their wagons to the project I should make every effort to maximi
I have been unable to do any modelling for 18 months which is the amount of time surprisingly I have been travelling to the hospital at Dudley upto four times a week for cancer treatment . However things are now starting to look brighter and I am thinking about which project to restart first .
I had a lot sort of started a year and a half ago and although I have not been able to do any modelling I have done lots of reading and internet research.
Currently the following projects have been
Normally the day after the treatment at the cancer clinic the side effects start to hit me and then really kick in after 36 hours. However this time today has been quite good - not perfect but better than usual so perhaps if I keep everything crossed the next few days will be tolerable.
I have never seen the Cancer Clinic so busy - all fifteen of the Units treatment booths were in use , both waiting rooms were full and in the large reception area newly arrived patients were crammed in as
As its not reckoned to be safe for me to drive any distance I have to go to the hospital for my appointments by ambulance or the hospital car service . This used to be staffed by volunteers but is now a commercial service and although the staff are great you wouldnt actually call it a service . They seem to operate to a completely different timezone to the hospital or the patients . Consequently the Clinic tells them I have an appointment at say 8.30am but by the time that is passed to the drive
Three weeks has come around very quickly and its off to the Cancer Treatment Clinic today again for my next dose of injections - still at least this new treatment seems to be starting to work well and after 18 months of purgatory with the Chemo we are actually getting some good results. If only I could get more use of my hands back to normal I could get some modelling done as the time it is taking for the nerve damage caused by the chemotheraphy to repair itself seems to be taking for ever.
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