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What a summer it's being... |
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Belated posting of something I was writing back at the beginning of September... Sorry for the delay in collecting more witterings from a Larkhall bookseller, reasons are mostly my innate inefficiency coupled with a serious amount of effort and concentration going in to more or less completing my outdoor train set, which now goes around the garden in a complete circcuit of one hundred and seventy three feet in length, which is 1.05 scale miles at 1/32 scale. For those that haven't already suffered it elsewhere, here is a snap of my diesel pulling a passenger train towards the wonderful girder bridge made by my talented friend Dave.
As Bill Smarme reminds us, there is nothing like a Dave, and I am very lucky enough to have another contributing to my garden lunacy, here is his beautiful North American train running along behind the potatoes earlier this month.
Meanwhile, back in the world of bookselling, I have just returned from the Llanfair garden railway show to which I was accompanied by my friends Steve and Neil. A good time was had by all and here is a suitably annotated snap from the weekend's proceedings, courtesy of Richard Thompson (photograph) and Phill Dyson (captions)
The book highlights of this show were Roy Link's magnificent WDLR album and Andrew Neale's Ruston and Hornsby Diesel Locomotive Album. |
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Simon Castens |
