Good morning everybody, on this second day of the new year. I hope you all get a better one than that which has just past. Here at Joppy Towers we have had upheavals galore, starting with a move of house, downsizing to a one bedroom bungalow from a two bed/2 recep house, with all the accompanying trauma of deciding what has to go and what we can keep. Fortunately we have a wide hallway so have fitted waist high bookcases along the length (good old IKEA) and kept nearly all of the library. About 12 of those cardboard veg boxes you get at the supermarket have been filled and sent of to an auction house, while others went to the various charity shops. How soon before I want to refer to one of them?.
The other major influence was the diagnosis, early in the year, of MrsJ having some impossibly named disease that would drastically reduce life expectancy, not something we wanted to hear when we'd both hoped for a long retirement! After a year of tests , some more intrusive than others, the professional still aren't sure if she has it or not, but can't track down the reasons for her condition. We take it as it comes with weekly hospital trips until something is discovered.
So not much hobby time over all. I seem to get about half an hour a day in the shed on four days a week. Two full days and an afternoon are taken with baby sitting our 18month old grandson, who is now getting to be curious and very mobile. At least his favourite word is "TRAIN".
Over the Christmas period we were stuck at home, so I dug out my little lockdown railway project and managed to do a bit more to it. This is the state today, scenery is complete and has received a preliminary painting. Iwish I'd treated the road differently as the filler I used is very bumpy. A card base would have been better.
