Hmm, last week didn’t end well and this week’s carried on in the same vein. Bugger.

Saturday evening saw the fun sight of me having to break into Bigland Towers via the front door, which turned into an ‘interesting’ exercise. The front door lock seized, leaving us with no way in as all the windows and back door were firmly closed, so getting through the front door was the only option. Thankfully, two of our lovely neighbours were at home and Gary had the ideal tool for the job (a mini circular saw) – and the cable to run from their house to power it! Fortunately, we’d returned from an evening out in Halifax at a sensible time so the sound of me cutting out a panel of a pretty solid front door – whilst noisy – wasn’t going to keep anyone awake (just provide entertainment). Having removed said panel I managed to crawl through the gap and open the back door to let Dee in. It’s fortunate that both of us are on the ‘svelte’ side – otherwise we’d have been stuffed (literally)! Having effected a temporary repair overnight Sunday involved a trip to our local DIY chain to buy new timber to reinforce the door. Our plan was to replace it in the future anyway. Now that future’s moved forward.

Today I was meant to be preparing for a trip down South tomorrow in order to be in place for a big media event on Wednesday morning. This afternoon I received an email to say the event’s had to be postponed due to technical difficulties, so that’s this weeks plans up the swannee. Drat and double drat! To add the icing on the cake the weather forecast is looking decidedly ‘iffy’. We’ve lots of rain on the way and maybe even snow – although I’ll believe that when I see it. All this uncertainty makes this week a sod to plan. On the bright side, I do have an event locally on Friday, so come hell or high-water (or even snow) I’ll be able to make that.

So, apologies for the lack of new photos being added to my Zenfolio website. Ironic. I have a brand new, start of the art camera and it’s hardly been out of the bag (except for one job) since I bought it! Instead, I’ve been stuck at home to continue my clear-out, which means there’s now a lot my old railway memorabilia for sale on my eBay site – which you can find here.

Weather permitting, I’m hoping to get out for a couple of hours tomorrow to catch up on some local changes to the rail network. We’ll see. In the meantime, I’ll leave you with today’s picture. If we’re going to have snow, can I put in a bid for it to be proper snow, like this, not just a dusting that disappears in the blink of an eye? Here’s a train approaching Milner Royd Junction, Sowerby Bridge on the 5th January 2010.

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