Funny sort of day...

Woke up this morning feeling fine, nothing special on my mind.  Then I looked out of the window to see one of the porch lights hanging upside down on its electric cable.  If they were old I wouldn't have minded but I only bought them in 1999 at Buy and Queue.  Gawd, nothing lasts.

So how do we get from this morning's dilemma to a snow scene on Port Appin?  Well the small screw fit bulbs are in a box in the garage so I went to find a replacement - just in case.  While raking around (it's like an Aladdin's cave.  It's where I keep all my old toys, books, magazines etc), I found a Christmas snow scene diorama I built about 3 years ago for a Scottish model bus website.  Dusted it down, replenished the plain flour snow, stood the trees and the people back up 'et voila'; today's Blip!

I had a devil of a job putting the light back up.  Had to drill out the rusted screw heads from the lamp housing then drill out the other ends of the screws from the wall.  Replaced the wall plugs and fitted it all back together.  Bleedin' freezin' outside this afternoon, fingers were red raw so it was a pleasure to get back indoors and play.