after a week or so out of action all my sites are active again and will see a steady return to action i have a full edition of april in a nutshell to produce in a week on my fotopic and youtube to finish ernestly amongst other things

firstly
the other commitment/play is now finished meaning activity on all sites should be back to normal soon

DRS
on th 24th of april the broadsman railtour came in from crewe heading for norwich then at norwich split into 2 with 2 37s going to sheringham and the north norfolk railway and a single 20 heading to great yarmouth
me and the crew from GEG were on duty at wymondham to see the tour come in and then headed to norwich to see the tours depart then headed to great yarmouth to see the 20
that is where i unfortunatly had to leave due to other commitments
so other than that which is my only regret and what i'd change this event was rather good meeting some good people and a new (cool) friend i give this meet a massive 9 out of 10

S&D
the day after the DRS tour the nene valley was the centre of attention with their somerset and dorset gala celebrating and recreating an occurance in the 60s when 73050 and 44422 double headed
on the 25th these 2 shared passenger duties double heading 1 from PNV to yarwell complete with pines express headboard
J94 no. 22 and class 14 D9516 were also on duty with 22 hauling the freight train and D9516 moving the DSBs and TPO coaches out of the way to an even worse place than before (longville junction (an enthusiasts favourite at NVR))
so in all this was a good event even though it got boring after the pines express had been through the only other MAJOR bad thing that made this event AWFUL was the 2 not so gentlemen at ferry meadows who were not at all nice to me (that's the last time i stop at a station they're manning)
cos of that the event gets 6 1/2 out of 10

overall plays DRS and S&D the whole week gets a great 8 1/2 out of 10
and may should be just as good

april bank holiday which was also easter weekend saw a rather good 3 days for me. on saturday i went out and spent a morning/early afternoon of linesiding at the nene valley railway which had 44422 and D9523 in operation on the day i also popped down to the ferry meadows railway momentarilly to see if their new american outline steam lookalike diesel was running yet this however is not running yet when i hear it's running i will go see it though
sunday was quiet and nothing happend
monday morning was quiet but in the evening i popped out to the mainline station to see 1S22 as it was to have 91121 dragging a HST set formed of 44319 and 43318 from london to eduinburgh but this ended at doncaster with it's passengers changing for a different set finally i also had fortune of seeing D9523 (not D9516 as nvr's website claimed) on my way to the station again to see 67006 and 005 hauling the easter highlander tour back to london after a weekend in scotland
enough of the treats there was unfortunately a trick in the sleave that the computer has suffered a little damage from a virus which isn't as malicious as it claimed to be but i'll keep an eye on it (nothing to worry about viewers you won't get it by looking at my pages) it just means things/updates will be a little slow for me till i get it sorted
on the matter april and may look pretty good for NVR as they will have all their operational steam engines in action (hopefully knowing the polish tank's reliability) and some good diesels and ex local shunters on the 17th of april and their S&D event and bank holiday orange services