13 December 2025

While the last set turned up a day earlier than normal, this month the parcel got lost in the Christmas rush and was two days late ... having been directed to the wrong depot initially. Tracking does sort of work, but some times the Royal Mail site does not give the details perhaps because things have gone wrong ...

Watching the Christmas films on the TV, it did not take too long to assemble the rest of the metal panels and the top side skirt mounts. The lower skirt is two thirds complete and the final two sections are part 1 of the next shipment. I did cheat a little and secured the partial frame with a couple of screws just to keep it tidy until the next 4 weeks are up. At least the next few months are all single shipments per month, but sometime next summer I'll have to cover the cost of 2 deliveries in a month ... it's a good thing that my pension is paid weekly.