Well it was inevitable I suppose. After 29 months, and three vaccines, I finally caught the plague. After spending Tuesday wondering if I was dying and wondering even more how I was going to finish my work in the week available, I did a test that evening and got the dreaded two lines. Followed by t’missus the next morning, and the MiniMes 24 hours later. So a plague house we are.
Also being totally unable to concentrate to anywhere near the level possible to work, I then spent Tues night / Wed morning tefloning my work onto others.
Within about 48 hours I started to feel like a human being again but I have the exhaustion that everyone talks about. I have to plan trips upstairs from down or down from up as I need a break between transits.
One thing I have found helps is distracting myself. So I have smashed a few KenKens (think Killer Sudoko) and have also managed ten mins here and there sorting models. One of which has got to stage of going to paint shops – the Cambrian Jones Class 15 Goods No. 864. This is the one I have written about before that I think almost certainly retained its GWR livery until the end of life in the early 50s.
I also caught up with Facebook having taken a break from it for a couple of months – very therapeutic. On browsing on my return I saw a picture on the Cambrian Railways Central Wales Division page run by Andrew Dyke of an ex-TVR O4 0-6-2T at Moat Lane which research by me (another distraction) suggests may have been en route to Worcester. Being such a lover of the weird, wonderful, and out of place, I’m now wondering if I can justify such a visitor at Penlowry.
And finally, Browsers Bookshop in Porthmadog (worth a visit if you’re going to Port) contacted me knowing I had a model of their shop on my layout asking if I could send them some pics of it to use in an upcoming promo they’re doing. So happy to oblige I got the mountain railway stock out to provide a more interesting background and put Idris in his cave.
Penlowry 