Steve Taylor

am looking at the Brassmasters Ivatt 4, out of the corner of my eye trying to sneak up on it when I'm ready. theme music needed:"One of these days"

knauf board stock laid in for this year. Now to "file" stuff in the attic

Merry Christmas to you all

is fettling an Ivatt 2 tank while listening to "Her Brittanic Majesty's Imperial Wireless Service" Harrumble for late starts.

another day, another hotel. On the plus side its not raining and I've sussed the ironmongery for another templot crossover plan.

off to Brum, metaphorical sign on the door says "gone shopping" (don't tell the boss)

sum total of completed achievement this week due to the weather: 0

how can filing switches be easier than crossings?

hihohiho its off to work I go. Its dark, its raining, I've got a 2.5hr drive, and I've messed 3 things up already this morning. It all bodes badly so far.

surprising stuff to learn: off to the guitar shop for strings for making springs and CSB'ing the world, and found that the shopowner used to make own a company making strings!

office day. I can feel the warmth draining out of the world already.

brain meltdown resulting from trying to visualise 90deg r/h lead transfered t oan upright wheel press from an upside down chassis. THUNK.

why, if its something minor and I'm not relaly paying attention, does my soldering become incredibly neat. The opposite seems to applicable too. .

turn it up, bring the noise. An evening of man-stuff beckons after kitchen chores. P'raps tonight I may progress a wagon, design a roof or a coal cell or contemplate my navel. The future is full of limitless possibilities

All Hail the asymetrical 4-sided shape. The board shapes are sorted but I'm now thinking that even at 1/4 size maquette all layouts should be on embankments and not in cuttings.

Armed only with this bottle of merlot, some drawings, card and the newsquiz on the i-player I have set forth on a quest for the 1/4 size layout mockup. There may be contours ahead, but while there's scalpels and spraymount and templot and maps, lets face the archive and guess.

Hmmmm, brass S1 chairs in bulk at wholesale prices please

an hour spare, wind up the dynamo, its RSU o'clock

the high plains of Leicestershire are looking bright and verdant today, especially with the house closed down to anti-roasting mode.

bring me the asbestos thimbles, I'm going in.

bah, Monday. Eeeeeugh

GGrrrrr, I tidy up go away for a week and my Bill Bedford wagon wheelbase jig has naffed off, and me with 5 bodyshells sat ready for wheeling .

off to Derby, looking forward to seeing Stainmore for the first time

zen and the art of brick carving....... thank goodness this is only a small signal box and not a retaining wall or viaduct

huzzah, its brickbond oclock. Measuring up to handmake bricksheet. Must retro petition MPs so that all buildings in bonds not available in Plasticard be rendered in really smooth plaster