Friday Update: Twenty-two Eleven Twenty-four…
Just a few hours before I'll be on the train heading to Birmingham for the inaugural 'National Festival of Railway Modelling' formerly known as 'Warley', at the NEC... This week we've not escaped from the snow that blanketed much of the country - for some reason I'd got it in my head that we weren't due any so to wake to an inch or two was a pretty surprise - whilst the main road and civilisation continued across the valley we end up snow bound by the state of the country lane, at least for the first 24 hours. I braved a walk on Wednesday to capture this lovely scene at the station - magical and untouched, the snow a purifying and cleansing blanket on a sleeping railway... Minus temperatures mean a real fire - and snow and puppies mean the new one (right) was tired enough to settle with Bronwen in front of this one after a fun day with the girls off school. Not great for my sanity, but it was lovely to see them as children again, enjoying being outside a
