Seven years between posts is too long

As the title says its been far too long between posts.

A lot has happened in those seven years much like my previous post, moved house again, this time to another part of the state, delved into some different career's, crashed a milk tanker and to top it all off the so called love of my life left me? That reminds me I'd best change my introduction.

Anyway I'm now living on my own in the south west of Victoria in a little town called Hawkesdale far away from all the crap of big city living and enjoying the peace and quite of country living. Im in the milk tanker business but now in the office as a supervisor which is a great job with 4 days on and 4 days off.

Now hobby wise I've really done nothing for the last 5 years as Ive had nowhere to do any modelling and the time hasn't been available either. I had a shed built about three years ago and started to build a room in that shed for a layout however with work and life in general it has progressed slowly. Then I had the crash which put me in hospital for about 4 weeks. I snapped my femur and broke my arm, the arm is all good but I have issues with my leg.

Then the, well the what I thought was the love of my life left at about 6 months after the crash which knocked me around pretty badly as it does for anyone who's not expecting it.

Moving on I'm in the house we ( now ex wife ) bought and now rebuilding my life on my own, I have met a lovely woman who is happy in her place as I'm in mine. Doing things I used to do is harder and now slower but I manage to get stuff done.

Okay now hobby wise I did a bit of modelling while I was recuperating and while I was elsewhere until the assets were settled, which was about 6 months ago. Nothing since but I have set up a desk in my spare room which is part office and part hobby room.

The shed I had built was partly built when we bought the place and I had another section built on, had all the walls filled in and concreted all the floor. It was originally a machinery shed with one wall and a skillion roof. I had another 6 mts added to the width which gave me a total of 13 mts x 12 mts. I had a hoist installed and sealed all the floor.

The original shed

The start with fresh concrete.

The completed structure

The future train.

I was extremely fortunate to obtain a well know layout recently which I was really excited about. Its exactly the same dimensions as the room I have laid out which is a total fluke. The layout has been in storage for a few years and is now in my other shed waiting on me to finish the train room.

The famous Monbulk trestle

Some of the trees in the cab for the trip home

The entire layout fitted into a 7ton 6.3 mt bodied truck

So if you asked me has my life changed, yes it most definitely has, however I have been blessed to be the custodian of the Master, Alan Rockets Puffing Billy layout and I plan to reassemble it in its entirety in the coming months. Watch this space.

Cheers Ollie