Rowsley17D

I finally got the Beast finished, well there's always something left to do, but it's about there. 

Here she is ready to depart for Derby after being sent to Derwent after an overhaul. The real 2035 lasted until 1935. Needless to say with a WM body she pull anything.

Just a quick(?) update on the health front. Yesterday, I had the start of my 4th treatment of 6. This is different from the treatment I had last year as it does not cause the know side-effect of the first treatment of permanent damage to nerve endings in the feet and hands/fingers. It affected just my feet. The thought of nerve damage to my hands was not welcome. The stuff I get at hospital is the different component, the stuff I bring home for 2 days is the same. I thought I had tolerated the first treatment well, save for the feet, but I am tolerating this treatment even better. No light-headedness, more energy and feeling really well after only a couple of days. The main side-effect is staying asleep. I can get off okay, but can be wide awake as little as an hour latter, which is why I am writing this at 0210. I get through by listening to the World Service and Classic FM as well as cups of tea and hot chocolate. Although not too much chocolate as this and too much of the onion family, legumes and brassicas do not make good bed-fellows with chemotherapy! I have a telephone consultation with the chemo consultant next week when I hope she tells me the next scan is booked. All being well and the blood count stays up, I should finish the round mid-July.

On the layout front, the heat caused a short. Took ages to find as one of the C&L old-type plastic H-section fishplates had failed allowing a turnout crossing rail end to touch the adjoining rail. Tracing it meant disconnecting a large number of droppers from the buss. I guess I should have divided the layout into power sections of upper board, lower board and fiddle-yard. The fiddle yard was easily disconnected, so the fault was on the scenic boards but which one? Anyway, once it was found and rectified, I took advantage of all the dangling wires and tidied most of it up. It looks much better under-baseboard and less of a rat's nest.