I live in Unanderra, a lovely suburb of the Greater City of Wollongong, NSW, on Australia’s beautiful east coast, 50 km south of Sydney. That’s right! We are the place with all those amazing beaches and sunshine — yep, the lucky country down under!
Living happily with my wonderful wife Joy, we were married back in 1966, and yes, we have been best friends for 60+ years. I’ve been retired from teaching seniors how to use computers at our local Community Centre for quite some time now.
During this later time of my life, I’ve been focusing on looking after Joy and my N Scale model railway layout.
Oh! I'd better get going right now, I see the fettlers have finished their coffee break, and it’s time to get back to work, for as I’ve often heard, your layout is never really finished. Well, I’d better head off like a wombat on a burnt ridge with its tail on fire.
Who!... Before I go, I had better tell you a bit about our Layout. After years of life happening, family and job, I had worked on the layout from time to time, but it was still not operational [the power had never been fully connected]. The track had been checked before mountains, scenery, sheet foam, plaster strips and casting plaster had been added, but that is where life in this miniature community came to a standstill, this valley went to sleep and the outside world forgot except for the mice and mould and then we decided to moved house...again.