Just because…

I was Pannier-less for about a week. Perhaps not even 7 days - no sooner has 1659 left I felt strange not owning one in any scale, so as a placeholder, a sort of emotional commitment to a future James, 6412 from Graham Farish now calls my little corner of North Wales home…I don’t have space for the layout I want to build - as lamented the other week - but I do have space for a circle of Kato Uni-trak… that is due in the post from Japan. I also have a selection of old Peco wagons from my Grandpa - so I can run a branchline of sorts… The sort we all started out with…Last weekend I was in a funk. I have a wonderful life, making models for a living and living next to a preserved railway - but it doesn’t always correlate to good headspace. I’ve been tired for weeks too, so it’s ok to be kind to yourself. I wanted to make something and I had been lost in Branchlines for a week. ‘Lost in branchlines’ - that doesn’t sound too bad does it, and whilst my heart said “build Watlington station” my…