We - Toby, Leo, Kat, Roland and me - were happily ensconced at the garden of John and Margaret about to start dinner when the rain began (again). Decamped to the house and had a lively and entertaining evening though no-one can remember a time when an evening at John and Margarets wasn't lively and entertaining. Above is Roland with our hostess and below, our host - who showed me this beautiful model with which he is filling his time.
It is Trevithick's Penydarren locomotive of 1804, which predated Stephenson's' Rocket by many years (The rocket was running in 1829 but I dunno when it was designed - from WikiP it looks like it was a team effort)
Lovely thing, anyway.
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