Jack and Katrina's Place

A few months ago there was a sad incident when Guy put Thomas into the Speaker, and couldn't get him out. Jack couldn't get his hand in and the speaker was glued together not meant to come apart. It was all very sad for a week until Jack found away to get the speaker apart. All was fine for a few days until Thomas ended up in the speaker again! This time we decide to leave him in there for a few days until Guy learnt not to keep doing it. To our exasparation he didn't learn, instead he kept on feeding two coaches, Diesel, Henry and James into the speaker one after the other.

I was wondering how he could be so silly when a few days later I watched him playing with his last remaining few engines on the blue tracks. I had made him a tunnel out of the wooden box that wine bottle came in. Unfortunately it is just a bit more than twice as long as Guys arm so when he pushes a train into one end he can't quite reach it from the other end. As I watched he solved this problem by pushing another engine in after the one that was stuck and thus shunting the first engine within reach. Then it would do a lap and shunt the other engine. Suddenly I realised that's why he was systematically feeding engines into the speaker, to rescue Thomas!


Luckily by this time we'd discovered the little girls across the road had small enough hands to reach inside the speaker and retrieve all the engines, to Guys delight. Now we have bricked up the Tunnel and erected a little notice. No Engines Beyond this Sign!