(You have got Narrow Gauge East at Bressingham at the start of June in your diary, haven't you?)
The job this weekend was starting to build a removable backscene screening off the fiddle yard at the back of the layout.
I have mixed feelings about backscenes.
On the one hand, as a visitor to exhibitions I quite like to be able to see what goodies they've got lined up in the sidings to whet the appetite.
On those occasions when you are the exhibitor, though, I also feel the opposite urge to want to keep things hidden.
Running a layout is like putting on a performance and you want our audience to be concentrating on what's being played out on the stage, not watching the actors waiting in the wings.
You also feel you'd like to maintain the element of surprise about what's coming down the tracks next.
With neither of us having a particularly artistic bent we're not about to attempt to paint a scene onto the plywood.
In the long term I suppose we could look into getting a panoramic picture of the slopes of Moel Hebog printed out and pasted onto it, but for the moment Himself will most likely just give a wash of paints to represent a untypically overcast Welsh sky.
I think it will be a good thing.
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