The lack of recent posts is due to the imminent arrival of an au pair to our family, we have an Italian girl arriving to help with the kids on the 2nd of November and thus, most of our house has been changed around. The kids have moved from a small bedroom and seperate playroom into a what was the hobbies / office space, we have moved into what was the playroom, which always had our wardrobes in it. Our bedroom will be for the au pair and what was the small kids room is now the office and hobbie space. I was fearing that I would have to loose the ability to keep the layout permanently setup, it is a little crampt in the room but there is enough space for the desk and layout plus a small beuro and a storage unit for paperwork. The room already had a sliding door which means we don't need to keep a space for the door to swing open. Of course, there won't be enough room to have the fiddle yard attached but it doesn't need to be while I am building the track and scenery.
At long last, arriving today, came my order of 1000 SMP copper clad sleepers and two packs of turnout timbers. I say at long last because like with most things on my todo list I manage to procrastinate and put off what I should be tackling next. It mostly happens with stuff that I have yet to try. Being a perfectionist, I don't like messing things up and I hate the thought of messing on the layout, even though it is my first try and shouldn't worry about making mistakes. It was the same with spraying the first batch of models I had started and the first attempt at applying transfers. Well, they have arrived and with the pack of code 75 bullhead rail I purchased from C&L at the Bristol show, I have no excuse not to start track laying!
