I love this show, the best part is watching Mum having a nervous break down. She worries about everything. This time it was that one of the guys - Alvin could only come for one day. She doesn't realise that the others are so use to setting up and running the layout that when one person goes missing, no one notices that they are not there.

We got to Toowoomba late on Friday afternoon. Mum had to work in the morning which meant a late start for us. Once we found where we were supposed to set up, and got someone to move their car, we unloaded the car and the trailer. We had no problems in setting things up and had everything running by about 9.00pm. All that was left to do in the morning was to tidy up, put the curtains up and to run trains.

Saturday 14th. - I spent the morning setting up my Tomy trains so Mum and Dad had something to play with while I ran my trains on the layout. We decided on running a mixture of Digital and Analog at this show but we kept on having problems with the circuit breakers tripping. It kept the guys on their toes in resetting them and making sure the public didn't notice.

There is a lot to see at this show, so if I wasn't looking, I was doing public relations work with my Mum or I was running trains on our layout and other clubs layouts. The latter much to my mum worry; I wish she wouldn't tell them to send me back if I cause to much trouble; doesn't she trust me; what is she going to be like when I'm six.

We didn't go to the Saturday night dinner; we decided instead to go to sizzlers. This allows us to get away from the trains for a while, and then it was back to the hotel to watch television and to have a break. Alvin also turned up so the full team was there for Sunday.

Sunday 15th - Yes we still had problems with the circuit breakers tripping, so there was a lot of trains stopping, a yell of "who did it" or "what did you do now, Alvin?", "Not me, it must be something you did." and so on. Don't we love it - I do because for once I'm not getting the blame.

A first for me at this show, I got to run my first Digital train. Matthew and I took over the layout; I did really well for my first go, I didn't crash the train and I kept it at the right distance from Matthews.

With the show over, we pulled down the layout quicker than normal. We would have gotten away earlier but the guys decided to chat; how unusual, they ONLY had two whole days to do that. The cold air moved in and we called it a day, we got home safely and Mum started to worry again about the next show. I know what I'm going to buy her for Christmas - hair dye for the grey hairs from worrying.

Report By Luke Kathage & Assistants.