Another catch up.

After the family party....

We headed off to Italy with James and Grace and Grace's parents...

More photos here - https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B06532ODWvmJeZ

Then we had the Sheep Festival where we were showing model railway layouts in the Station Cafe - I put some of the removable parts of my layout in. 

So quite busy really. 

And now we are back to cutting the grass etc.

I used the new hopper system to collect the grass as it needs emptying less. It worked quite well for a prototype. 

Today was my birthday (hooray) and Kate bought me my first trainset! Well my first digitally controlled set anyway. This will need a computer to run it so will be a new layout, separate from the other one. 

In order to accommodate this new growing hobby I am changing the layout of the garage which involves moving the back wall.