The domestic black hole

[ntpntpntp]

I think SWMBO wishes my modelling stuff would disappear into a black hole!  I currently have the conservatory and living room full of layout and stacks of crates containing various scenery products, packs of people and vehicles etc.  as I prepare my contribution to TINGS    The worrying thing is I'm not sure how it will all fit back where it usually lives: some came from the garage and some from my "hobby room"  (spare bedroom) but it seems to have expanded!

[Papyrus]

Ages ago I bought a Farish 4P to use the chassis for a project - there is no sign now of the chassis or tender, only the loco body. Which is the bit I don't want.

This has turned up! In the 'to be repaired' box with the rest of the loco. How? Why??

Cheers,

Chris

[Newportnobby]

Pssst.
I snuck in and put it there  

[Lagrange1]

Personally I'm missing

An expensive soldering iron (a present from the Mrs).

My airbrush (should be easy to find in its wooden box which is inside a cardboard sleeve )

A pair of Farish BYA wagons

A USB stick containing the N Gauge Society journals, as PDFs, from 1968 to 2013.

And then the really good magazine article from the 1980s about Carlisle Power Signal Box.

Ho-hum.

[Newportnobby]

Welcome to the forum.
Are you sure you don't have a poltergeist?

[Lagrange1]

Welcome to the forum.
Are you sure you don't have a poltergeist?

Thanks for the welcome and quite possibly as there's other non railway stuff that's also MIA.

[Greygreaser]

Try moving house - everything then turns up as you have to clear the old house!
That's why I've now got 7 hammers!
4 tape measures
A box of Pozi and Philips drivers
Approx a dozen Allen keys the same size but not a full set anywhere
5 set squares
Numerous 'Stanley' knives but none with a decent blade!
1 lump hammer that still has a loose head!
3 hose guns - 2 don't work!

In the loft are the N gauge loose items in 5 large, deep plastic boxes plus another large plastic toolbox full of 'useful bits' and V small tools. All the rolling stock items are in one large box so there might be some damage to rectify.
I too have bought various 'spares' over the past 3 years to modify or repair rolling stock and these are somewhere in the loft?
The baseboards halves are still stored on edge in a bedroom where they might just be able to fit - if not its take them apart to get the layout built again in the loft as the loft hatch/ladder opening is too small to allow the boards up as built
The new kitchen is finished, the back door has gone, the garden shed is reduced by 40% and we have 300 bricks and about 300kg of rubble to turn into a circular patio!
Then i get to resurrecting the layout!