Hazel Markham has a home.

OK, the summer house is now cleared out, electrics have been restored, lighting installed and the baseboard has taken up residence, The Summer House is now, unofficially "The Engine Shed".

On Saturday I purchased the cork sheeting, 3 additional Peco point motors and a pack of Peco / Wills  SSMP226 Brickwork, Flemish Bond for the Signal Box and Goods shed bases.

SHE is out on Tuesday, getting inebriated with the WI and then at a meeting Wednesday night, so chance to get into the Engine Shed and start laying the cork.

As I said in the last post, having Hazel Markham set up in the Engine Shed mean that I can leave things out, half done without the need to waste time packing up and clearing away, bliss.

A Home for Hazel Markham

Well with the baseboard constructed and the partner home, SHE has banished the railway to the shed, which is fine, but the shed was full of rubbish, so last weekend was spent clearing out and re-organising.

The shed is actually supposed to be a summer house, so now it's cleared out and tidy how long until SHE decides to use it as such, in the meantime it's home for my railway :-).

The shed is 8 ft 6 in by 6 ft 6 in is partially insulated and will have power to it by Monday, the supply is there but keeps tripping, so I have a qualified electrician coming tomorrow to investigate and resolve the issue.

Being a shed it will probably suffer from cold and damp, it's at the end of the garden so security is also an issue, but it will offer a space to leave the railway up and work in progress can be left out, meaning, when SHE lets me, I can just pop off down to the shed and play :-D