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They may be small these model trains, but hell they take up a lot of space!
After all the excitement of yesterday (and of course my self induced late night) it's much of a relief to have a bit of a lay in today. In fact, it was for most of the day and it's not short of midday by the time we are up and have had breakfast (or lunch, whichever you want to call it).
So filled with some food we then go to homebase to pick up some supplies for our project of the day, which is to build from scratch the base board that phil needs for his model railway. He's already chosen a layout from the book I got him, and for it to work we need a base board that is 4ft by 8ft. Thing is, to buy them costs a fortune, so we opt to make one ourselves.
Once we get all the pieces we head home and unload the car. We were going to nip to Oxford and pick up a small train and the bits you need to make the train run around the track, but unfortunately the model shop wasn't open, so we put aside the rest of the day to actually construction the base board.
Considering that neither Phil or I are qualified carpenters, and haven't done any kind of CDT since about the age of 13, what we finally come up with is a masterpiece of engineering, and even though we were fighting against the fading day light we get the board completed at about halfpast twilight - leaving just enough time to pack the myriad of tools away and get the baseboard upstairs and into the guest bedroom which is it's ultimate final resting place. So you see it's not just the Egyptians that were dab hands at getting large structures into difficult areas, the Phil and Abi alliance are pretty good at it too :)
There isn't that much left of the day by the time we've finished so I get on and do some dinner, which is jacket potatoes and the rest of the evening is spent catching up on some blog entries, handing some picture and watching the last half of my Lee Evans DVD - boy that man is funny - he has a very accurate, but hilarious routine about the pitfalls of relationships which can only make you smile since more often than not you've "been there and done that" time and time again. Definitely worth a watch if you fancy a giggle or 10 :)
Posted by Abi on the December 26, 2005 9:55 PM
[q]...the Phil and Abi alliance are pretty good at it too :)[/q]
And did you also need about 10000 slaves to get the job done? :)