It must be my lucky week. The unfathomable has finally happened... I actually have an air conditioner installed into my room! The landlord was going to install it before we moved in, about 4 months ago. Things don't tend to move too quickly at times. We also managed to score a new cooktop, so I installed that yesterday as well. It heats up considerably faster than our old one, so we might actually be able to cook on this new one.
Not a bad week this week, spent two days at a training course learning how to perform rope rescues from the tops of towers. So if you ever get stuck at the top of a tall tower, you know who to call. There wasn't a heck of a lot of other exciting jobs worth writing about, I guess when most jobs have strange things happening with them you tend to dismiss them as "normal" and just carry on.
I did go out to a historical village near Gladstone where they have just built a new shed for rail memorabilia, and there is a small model train group running out of there now as well. I introduced myself and they invited me along on a tuesday night, but I might have to see how we go. They seem interesting but no where near as advanced in their modelling and exhibition techniques as the Timaru crowd. They had one layout on display, but they had most of the actual "display" side facing away from the public, and they only had one train running and absolutely no animation whatsoever. Not even lights in the buildings. The modelling was OK, but it just looked plain dead. Most people seem to be shying away from DCC due to the initial cost, so most layouts are analogue DC, although a few members apparently run NEC DCC.
So between housework, installing household appliances, and visiting the old village, I haven't had much time this weekend to work on my own layout. So, I am off to do exactly that now.
Here's a few more pics from the last week/end.
TTFN.
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