He is really pleased with it – so is Daddy 🙂
It has now increased in size and has TWO controllers so he can now control each track independently to each other 🙂
There is still more to be done (apparently) so there is going to be some track building work in the Christmas holidays – a goods yard is required for rolling stock storage :-s
Anyway, here is the current setup including his new railway platforms 🙂
So far it is going well in sunny London, with reasonably long days and daddy still managing to get to talk to the boys and mummy. Last night was funny and worthy of calling out however – daddy called to speak to the family at around 5:30 as he was joining the company fitness group at 6pm. When mummy put the house phone onto speakerphone, Oliver said “hello daddy, this is Oliver Rust speaking…” cracked us all up 🙂 Elliot shortly after followed suit of course 🙂
The cost of being here is quickly becoming clear so Simon is going to try using the car and finding a hotel that is much further afield to see how / if that works out OK.
So, as eluded to, last night was the company fitness group, so Simon decided to join in as a good means of building relationships etc with various parts of the business – turns out there were 6 or 7 people attending and that it was not just a 5K run (as Simon had thought it would be. It was a 1.5k jog to a gym and then a 45 minute circuit training session. MAN it was hard work and Simon is really feeling the pull this morning 🙂 His body has not gone through circuit training for over 20 years since being at school in Bradford so this was a leap into the fire-pit in many respects. Let’s just hope he can walk and carry his gear home tomorrow night 🙂
Looking forward to cuddling the family again – roll on Friday night: 20:40 🙂 See you soon guys, love you XXX OOO
Over the last couple of days we have swapped the function (and contents) of the conservatory and the dining room. The kids now have a playroom in the main house and we have a super large dining room with plenty of space in it 🙂 Hopefully the kids will manage to keep their new playroom tidier than before 🙂 We also migrated the Wii down into it to allow the boys to play with it in a more controlled location 🙂
So far so good… 🙂
Interestingly enough, Vicky just called up our insurer and by questioning the renewal has enabled us to get more than £100 off the quote AND an additional £150 of value added in :-). Morale of the story – always question stuff 🙂
As you can see, we decided to go for it – took a few days given the other things we have had on but the results are pretty good, although I think we have seen enough of paintbrushes and wallpaper for a little while 🙂
This paper was a bit more difficult to match up than the rest as the flocking needed to go a certain way and the paper itself was less inclined to be moved once in situ.
Anyway, I think we have proven that we can put up wallpaper relatively successfully (as well as take it down again – that bit is not much fun though). The port / burgundy colour we have put on the two walls adjoining the feature wall was a bugger to find – we needed up with one of the Dulux colours that they mix in store and even then it took four coats to get it right…. :-(. Not looking forward to trying to paint that lighter in the future – will be a swine to cover over given its deep colour….