A place to call home.

Whilst this blog is primarily concerned with all things 'train', and my efforts to build a museum of Toy Trains, I also recognise that there are other necessities of life- such as a roof over one's head at night.  And so a significant event occurred on Thursday with the signing of a contract with a local builder to build a cottage at Whistlestop.  The idea of a one-bedroom cottage is to give us somewhere to live for a while as the other projects planned for Whistlestop develop, although we still are hoping to build a larger house adjacent to the cottage one day.  I am extremely excited about being truly able to call Whistlestop 'home', which we haven't been able to do previously.

Here is a picture of the cottage site taken a couple of years ago when it was the storage site of one of my brother's projects- a 1927 Hupmobile.

Here's another picture taken from where the front verandah will be, looking southwest.  I'm really looking forward to developing this area more, with all the grass being mown, and gardens created amongst the rock outcrops.

There is a cartoon which I don't have access to at the moment unfortunately, but it shows a bloke showing a mate his train-room which is a really grand building, and in the background is a very modest structure which is his home.  I really don't know why that's funny........................

With the excitement of building our home, and all the other extremely exciting projects that are ahead of me, I am very concious that there are many, many, people in the world who are homeless through no fault of their own, with no prospect of ever improving their situation.  My daughter Amy works with an organisation whose aim is to help people trapped in extreme poverty- and the number of those people is perhaps surprisingly high.  You may like to read her blog at Love, Liberation & Lost Luggage.