Fly by . . .

Is it a bird?  No it's a plane . . .

Makes a change from GarageCam, and feathered fly-bys.

Bit of a lucky shot mind you - captured with Martin's camera phone - think it's probably a Hercules . . .

Home Alone

New working arrangements have stationed Martin in Weston-Super-Mare for a few days, which has left me home alone - although I am being sent some very nice pictures of the Somerset coast!

Grand Tour

With Martin traversing the country for work, I took a few days off to join him on his Grand Tour.

First stop Newcastle . . . monumental historic buildings, stunning modern architecture and the bridges over the Tyne:

Add to that the opportunity to catch up with an old friend, a vampire rabbit (really!), and the Angel of the North, and Newcastle is a city to go back to.

Off the clock, we moved on from Newcastle en route to family in East Anglia.

Stopped off at Whitby - where we found a great cafe (Sherlocks) for lunch - walked up to the Abbey - and generally took in the sights.

Couple of days then catching up with family - including a trip out to Kings Lynn (which has some great old buildings reflecting its past as a major medieval port):

All in all a nice few days away . . .

It's a Monster . . .

Well now it's underway our local Tesco / M&S development is growing like Topsy:

Or as put in an overheard passing comment . . .  'It's a Monster!'

SNOW!

Can't say it lasted for long - first (and probably only) snow we'll see this year . . .

When Good Showers Go Bad . . .

Slight problem with the downstairs shower this weekend.  Noticed water leaking from the casing yesterday, got in touch with our builders but unfortunately their plumber was out of town so there wasn't anything they could do that day.

By this morning it was running, rather than dripping with water - Martin turned the water off at the stopcock and tried to get the leaking valve off, but not luck.

Somehow, in fiddling with it, he must have tightened something though, because when we switched the water back on (at a lower pressure admittedly) he seemed to have stopped the leak.


Waiting for the plumber to come and take a proper look - so using the upstairs shower in the meantime.

Update - 19 March - plumber finally showed up, and fingers crossed it's all fixed!

Planning the Track

Spent some time today trying to finalise the track layout on the baseboard - in theory we came up with something like this:

Experimented with other layouts, but this still seemed to work best in terms of making use of the space - and the smooth running of the trains.

Will probably mull it over for a bit before fixing everything down mind you!