May to June plus a bit of April ......

Whilst I may be writing this installment in June, I must start off with a little bit about April that I forgot to put in my May installment.  Over the weekend of 6 and 7 April 2013, Yate Rocks Tramway journeyed up the M5 to Cheltenham where it was exhibited at a model railway exhibition for two days.  Its previous exhibitions had been only 'one day'ers', so Cheltenham was an interesting experience.  Very exhilarating, but also very tiring, especially  for the old vocal chords.  Profits from the Exhibition all went to CLIC.

One thing which came out of the two days was that the ideal locos, both in functionality and based on a possible prototype was for the little Minitrain diesels to take over, with the Pecketts being 'retired'.  So two more diesels have arrived at the works and the Pecketts have been transferred to another part of the GSCoLtd empire.

The new little blue diesel passes one of the now 'retired' Pecketts.

For my birthday treat, we went off in our caravan (part test run - part holiday  all the way to Tredegar House in Newport.  This gave us a chance to see the house, now a NT property, and get some wood form ISCA Woodcrafts.  Any way we wnet back there three weekends later when ISCA were having an open day with demonstrations by other 'wood nuts'.  That weekend coincided with our 24th anniversery .....  

ps Latest piece of wood turning:

X shaped bowl in Elm

More soon ....