mum and dad have gone to tauranga for queens birthday weekend. mum just called and she found the sodor candy company trucks for me. that would be the first item bought in store locally this year i think. they wont be home til monday, so no photo until then.
it was running night at the club last night. i took my union pacific and canadian hoppers, but none of them saw the track as paul arrived with my repaired rivarossi.
it had a few things wrong with it, it wasnt making proper contact with the track and needed new traction tyres. he put it on the track and it hiccuped along for half a lap, so it was pulled off and paul loosened a spring in the tender. try again, and she was off! took a couple of laps to warm up properly, but she runs like a dream. rob hooked her up to his 9-coach train and even on the steep sections she pulled beautifully. most other locos slow down quite a bit, but she didnt even seem to notice the grades. for a $20USD goodwill store find, shes mint. both paul and rob are jealous, with rob calling it a piece of junk and that it should be knocked off the track and broken and a few other choice names. i told him if i drop dead, its his, so then he said he would follow me home, rear end me and then back up to make sure, lol. theres a photo of her here yesterday, i had finally had enough of the old laptop and very nearly tossed it out the window. we went into harvey normans to have a look at their desktops and ended up having to go to palmerston north as the only one the local store had was the display model. no way was i going to pay full price for a model thats been touched by countless people with who knows what on their hands. im no germ-o-phobe, but i dont see the point in taking unecessary risks.
set it up last night and she is stunning! will make working on the site much easier. rob went to see paul yesterday as paul had a bit of an incident and fell down a deep hole. he has hurt his shoulders and leg. he is going to repair the rivarossi and is reportedly jealous of it. my up up and away percy arrived yesterday. he is quite a nice model though the hot air balloon is badly under-scale, but thats me being picky. haha. his photo is here
there was a card in the postbox yesterday saying theres another parcel for me that wouldnt fit in the letter box... i picked it up on the way to work and opened it once i got there. inside was bertram. i just love this engine. his whole design is impressive. im really glad to have him. his photo is here. bertram is one the rarest engines and was only produced for a short time linda brought back a train from the states for me, a john wilkes rivarossi. we took it out to the club and it didnt go, so rob took it home to look at. he had no luck and is going to pass it on to paul. hopefully he will be able to figure it out. no photos as it went straight from lindas house to robs, hasnt even been home yet, haha. on friday, i won an auction on trademe for percy up up and away. should be here thursday at the latest.
bertram hasnt arrived yet... shouldnt be too far away hopefully! the thomas and terence deluxe action set that i bought from zero to five over in tauranga arrived today. havent unpacked it yet.
my boss linda is home at long last! she brought home my birthday present too... a rivarossi john wilkes train that she bought for $20usd at a thrift store. we took it out to the club last night. it doesnt run, so rob has taken it home to try and sort out. this morning, i set up my takara tomy ferry boat set to test it out before the open day. im hoping to use talking salty, but the amount of batteries i used at the last show means i might have to rethink and use a standard salty. last night i bought the old warrior, BERTRAM on ebay for just under $40NZD including postage. he looks mint and comes with his tender. cant wait for him to arrive. he is one of the hardest engines to find and was only released under the original trackmaster umbrella.
salty and percy arrived today. they look like brand new! both work fine. seems a shame to pull them to bits, but needs must.
monday was a good day. went to beauty and the beast twice. the first time i was there alone and the second time there were two other ladies. was a nice day out. got a few things from the op shops. weebly has announced some new theme ideas and abilities, so i may be changing some things as they become available. the most obvious so far is the contact button over there ----->. just click that to access the form to send me a message. means one less page on the contents bar.
in other news, i bought talking percy and salty from trademe last night for $30. i know i already have them, but they will be my scrap guinea pigs, so i can pull one to bits and post up a repair guide. the tomy ones almost always need repair due to damage to the axle cog, so i want to see if the trackmaster ones will need the same in the future. i went to sanson today... gorgeous day on the bike! both mounts egmont and ruapehu were easily visible on the way. just stunning! i didnt get much... a nice butterfly necklace, some pokemon for the xmas layout, a take along trailer for blair and a train badge. tomorrow im going to palmy to see beauty and the beast in 3d. might even go and see it twice! should be quiet being a monday, so no school kids! |
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