Cornwall - the one County in England that I have never visited but now get to taste!

 Cornwall! The one County in England that I have not visited and I don't know why but thanks to some very kind friends I have an ability to taste the County of Cornwall with this wonderful gift delivered today! It may look just like a cardboard but the insides are the treat!

So what is inside?

Just look at that! A wonderful cream tea for two and as the leaflet says 'Too good not to share' not that Mrs. Woody would allow me to consume it all myself! Thankyou Heidi and Bill! I may well have to go and visit Cornwall once I am fully back on my feet!

Pain but less!

 Not the best of nights but better than the one before and the level of pain is subsiding which is nice. The problem is when trying to get to sleep in bed at night there are no distractions so you focus on the pain! Anyway enough of that! Hopefully improvements will continue. 

On my current project, the jigsaw, progress has been made which all goes to divert attention from the pain of the hip op!

Jigsaw time!

 Well, it's the second full day of recovery from my hip operation and boy is it painful! There can be times when I just sit or lie and the pain is a background dull pain but try and move and it's pain on a level I have not had before and that includes several crashes on my bike. However, hopefully things will improve in the next few days. In the meantime Mrs. Woody has been providing the highest level of attention and assistance and it was her suggestion that I take my mind off things by doing a jigsaw. 

Bought some two years ago the time has now come to be assembled! Should keep me amused for a bit! 

Hip, hip, hooray!

 If you are reading this on the day of posting I am now sore but with a new hip! The operation itself is something I have no memory of as I was out of it before even going into theatre which was good! Hopefully back to WMD HQ today if I can prove I can walk with crutches up and down stairs and do all the exercises I am being given! I'm sure Mrs. Woody will ensure those are done along with dispensing the chemist worth of pills I have been given! All in all a hip, but hip, hooray day!

New hip - Attempt 2!

Well, hopefully, after last weeks last minute cancellation, as this is posted I will be or will have been fitted with a new hip! 

Wheels fitted!

With the wheels painted up its time to mount them on the hull of the A39 Tortoise.

I had masked up the various mounting points before painting so I removed the tape from the hull...

...and the Maskol from the wheels. The Maskol did what it was supposed and just peels off.

With the glue faces clear of paint the attachment process began and before too long all eight sets of wheels were on the hull.

I test fitted one of the side skirts which shows just how much of the wheel structures are covered.  Once the drive sprockets and rear wheels are fitted I can get on with the tracks.

Time for a bit of highlighting!

Time for a bit of highlighting of the running wheels of the A39 Tortoise and that involves my usual dilute wash of black paint.

With eight sets of wheels to do this will keep me amused for an hour or so!

Hindsight!

Well, things do move on as the running wheel sets to the MENG A39 Tortoise now have all their rubber tyres painted in a grey which I prefer to the 'bright' black that people think rubber looks like. It may do, fresh out of the factory, but stuck on a wheel as a tyre and put out on the road or ground it soon weathers!

I have touched in parts of the green as well With hindsight (what a wonderful thing that is!) I would have painted the wheel centres before assembling them. As they stand, there are still unpainted parts but once the tracks and side skirts are on it will be mostly be covered - I hope!

No change in three and a half years!

 I do look back through this blog and it is interesting to see what I was up to over the years and the progress and changes made with the things I cover in my posts. Usually it is glacial progress but changes do happen. 

However, sometimes there is no change. Out with Mrs. woody we came across this which I term as a Railway Garden.

Very impressive and whilst most home owners would get fed up of people photographing their front garden I am guessing that this one accepts that a display like that is going to attract attention and photography! 

Now I know I have seen this before and sure enough I have back in March 2023 in a post that you can see if you click here.

Now strangely enough, in the three and a half years that separate the phots taken nothing of the display appears to have changed apart from a couple of small signs on the gate turning from red to blue!!

Now strangely enough, in the three and a half years that separate the phots taken nothing of the display appears to have changed apart from a couple of small signs on the gate turning from red to blue! 

Now if that were the limit of changes to me I would be a happy man but in that time my hip has gone from mild pain to agony and Mrs W thinks my age has halved - that is my mental age!

 

This should keep me amused for a while!

Having now found myself having an additional week before the next go at having a hip operation I have taken advantage of the time to complete the top coat paint application on the A39 Tortoise.

I have even started to paint up the running wheel rubber tyres which is one of the most boring jobs to do and there is also going to be some green to touch in to.

This should keep me amused for a while!