It was more than five and a half years ago that I started this blog.
I've never been one for keeping a diary so it feels like quite an achievement to have kept it going.
In more recent times I have tried to keep the discipline of posting every other day.
That hasn't always been easy, especially when there hasn't been that much actual modelling going on, but fortunately I am able to call upon the skills developed in the day job to make a little sound like a lot more than it actually is.
Waffle would be another word for it.
One of the challenges of blogging is to be able to illustrate your posts which sometimes requires a little lateral thinking - hence the pictures of 138 in its rather lurid livery during a spell when its identity was being prostituted to please one of the major sponsors of the WHR rebuilding.
Apologies if you'd forgotten all about this and I have traumatised you anew.
Before writing this post I took a look at what I was working on when I wrote the first few entries.
In some ways a lot has changed and in so many others it hasn't.
Back in 2010 the layout was not even one third built.
We had the station area and that was about it.
Anyone who's been with us from the start will have followed the periodic spasms of construction leading to the the completion of the layout - in trackplan terms at least - last year.
Other things do not seem to have changed that much.
In the early posts I was building my first Super Barn,a model of 103, and we're still knocking them out - the new 117 and 118 are on the agenda for 2016.
I notice that at the time I started blogging I had already built the collection of farmyard buildings at Cwm Cloch and it was something of a jolt to realise that it's taken best part of 6 years to get round to doing the farm house itself.
It's been pleasing to watch the page view counter clicking up - we should easily pass 400,000 next year - although you have to be careful not to become too obsessed with these things.
By my reckoning it'll be another 3 years before we reach 2000 posts. I wonder if I can keep it up?
Well done, Rob. It's a super blog and one I always read even if I don't always comment. I remember that awful livery, too. As a reader it just seems like a constant flow of work...all very good. Here's to the next 1000 views!
ReplyDeleteI should of course, have said "posts", sorry!
DeleteThank you Iain, that's a great compliment coming from you.
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