Finally got around to replacing the Xmas jigsaws with something more appropriate in spring. So I had to complete two new 1000 piece jigsaws. The Christmas ones took several days to complete, but having got stuck in, the new railway based ones were finished in two and a half days. Would have been even quicker if I hadn't had an accident trying to turn the first one over in the into the picture frame. Fortunately the difficult sky area survived almost complete, and other areas remained in chunks, but it still took a couple of hours to repair the damage to Sir Nigel Gresley.  The sky had been fun to complete working more from piece shapes than anything recognisable colour wise, and the same happened with the smoke and steam on Torbay Express. I'd finished all but that area by 10PM on Friday, and rather than going to bed I decided to plough on and complete it, which in the end only took another 90 or so minutes.

While sorting out which two jigsaws I was going to use, as I have some syfy ones as well, I cam across another Xmas present that needed playing with. A Meccano style Fire Truck. It had been going cheap in a closing down sale around the corner so seemed a perfect addition to my Christmas present pile. It actually took a little while to complete mainly while trying to work out just where some parts go on the rather compact instruction sheet. Couple of false starts on bits and a couple of bits taken apart only to find I had been right in the first place. Only real niggle was the final nut and bolt to finish the installation of the hi lift. After 10 minutes trying to wrangle the nut onto the bolt I actually tried them in free air and found one or other was damaged. It then took half an hour to find something suitable as unlike other kits such as the Dalek, there were no spares at all.