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| Harrogate Show 9 - 11 May |
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| John Stevenson:
Only takes me 1 1/2 hours in the Donald and that's from Nottingham. Mind you probably take us longer tomorrow as Ketan is driving, can't drive on the meds I'm on because of my back [ official excuse] Real excuse - If K10 is driving I can knock the £2 off the diesel bill :thumbup: |
| raynerd:
I'm not going this year but if anyone gets a chance, could you find the name of the chap who sells the sterling engine kits on the Sterling Engine Society stand? I'll not be going and wanted one last year, walking out totally forgetting to pick it up! I just want to know if he can do one mail order and a name would be a good start! He has been there for the last 5 years I've been so I'm sure he'll be there this year. I'd appreciate it if anyone get chance to ask. Enjoy the show. |
| Jonfb64:
Had a good day but the concrete floors are a killer. Was good to meet Philf shame we missed Eugene. Wife said I spent too much but I dare to disagree :lol: As others have said not as good as previous years for the trade stands but plenty of nice models to see. have a great day those who are going Saturday or Sunday Jon |
| philf:
Hi Gary, We left at 3:30 hoping to miss the worst of the traffic but we were going nicely along the M62 when everything ground to a crawl. The signs above said 40 - we were lucky if we could manage 2! According to the radio there was a vehicle fire some miles ahead of us. We eventually came off the M62 to find a quieter route but so did thousands of others. When we left there was still an enormous queue towards Harrogate coming from the Wetherby direction. Cheers. Phil. |
| Eugene:
I now know what Stevie Wonder did after he retired from singing; got a job as Traffic Manager at the Great North Showground! It's a magnificent site with oodles of parking areas all beautifully laid out and maintained so it should be easy to ensure a rapid ingress of multiple traffic streams and avoid queuing. All it needed was a couple of marshals splitting the traffic off the tarmac drive into four or five streams and directing them to separate parking areas. But no, we fill one car park at a time, one vehicle at a time and let the traffic back up all through Harrogate and the surrounding district. :doh: Mind you as a veteran of many Game Fairs I've seen even worse; he gets around that Stevie. I bought a milling slide vice in as new condition from the Myford stand, a few chunks of steel plate and ally for (yet another) project, and tried to buy some carbide tool holders and tips but the chap couldn't take a credit card. There being no cash machines on site I'll order them off the internet. As a one time aero modeller I really admired some of the 'planes on show especially those still being worked on. I'd go again but not make it a day trip from Mid Wales; too much driving. We hired a really lovely cottage about five miles away just recently, so I'd build the show into the programme and let The Management trawl the shoe shops in Harrogate for the day. My super duper highly intelligent on-board computer and SatNav detected the queues on the 62 and took me an alternative route .... the one used by about 100,00 other vehicles all presumably equipped with the same bit of kit! Nightmare. Phil, my bad. Eug |
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