The dust begins to settle

Well after a protracted house move that would merit its own blog SWMBO and I have finally settled down into our own pile of bricks. Lets just say the next person that mentions 'completion dates', 'contract exchange', 'surveys', 'chains', is going to get throttled with a chain.

At the moment all things railway are poised and awaiting the phoenix that is the layout. Erm, no actually. The baseboards and all my wood is piled up in the concrete bunker that passes as a garage. The rest of everything has been transfered from boxes into nice damp proof plastic tubs. 24 of them to be exact. I managed to get an amazing deal from B&Q a while back and snapped up their entire stock for £2.50 each. I've got no space to set anything up and with all the 'additional unforseen' costs of the move, my dream train shed is on hold for the forseeable future.

In my infinite crap luck, it turns out that the advertised 5' from the back seats to the door in my Freelander actually turns out to be 4' 10" once the stupid junk holder in the back door is taken into account. The result is the baseboards that I oh so carefully measured to fit the 'official' Landrover measurements with 1" to spare are actually 1" too bloody long to fit. Of course I didn't find this out until I actually went to move the blasted things to the new house.

Do I move the existing layout onto shorter baseboards, or just start again? Do I carry on and get a trailer for the LR? What do I do for the next 12 - 18 months until I finally get my shed built? Decisions, decisions. I was hoping to catch up on some other projects but I'm suffering layout withdrawl. Does anyone actually read my drivel?