To all those who made the mistake to trip up and hit the Enter key on my Blog I wish you well in this new year and hope, like you, that the year is easier on our finances though I fancy it will not be. The whole financial world seem to be in the middle of a monetary tsunami, no one seems to know the epicentre, or is prepared to admit they know of it as they may be blamed, the result concerns all, both rich and poor are affected to differing extents.
Like the dickens story, Scrooges bank gets help from public funds (from our pockets) to stop the bank from going under, while Bob Crotchet and his family suffer horrendous charges from their power supplier, hiking up their charges above inflation rates, while the Crotchets can't raise a loan from the bank they have just invested in to cover the fuel usage they have had to consume during the cold winter we are enduring. I am sure Dickens would have framed this more eloquently but I am also sure his message would have been somewhat similar.
On a personal level, this has been an unexpectedly peaceful Christmas, we have been undisturbed by our neighbour's rantings, I will not explain further as it is too stupid to be suitable for this site.
As a confessed Anorak, my activities at my club (Harrow & Wembley Society of Model Engineers) reached it's conclusion this year with our Father Christmas run, (we run model steam trains on a Sunday giving rides to the public round our permanent track in a park setting during the summer period), with the weather right for the setting we had set up the grotto in the rear of our clubhouse, one of our members endowed with the right build and attitude made his usual excellent performance as Father Christmas surrounded by two elves and lit by many twinkling bulbs.
We have built a tunnel which we are going to cover with foliage of some sort, this was covered by a tarpaulin and bedecked inside with more Xmas lighting, most of our members dressed for the occasion including an overgrown elf and a walking talking 8ft Christmas tree, complete with lights, the public love it, especially the children, it is a delight to be involved with this as it is our way of saying thank you to our regular visitors who turn up, sometimes in very inclement weather, to support our efforts during the whole summer period.
This coming year it is our 75 anniversary and we have been chosen for special attention by our organising body The Southern Federation who intend to use our facilities for some of their events this year, thus we have been working to improve our track where age and weather had taken it's toll on the concrete track base, over a period of three Sundays the members raised the faulty area track, removed the crumbling concrete during the first Sunday, laid new concrete on the second and, re-laid and levelled the track on the third. The Xmas run proved the newly laid track was well worth doing as it proved far smoother than previously encountered.
The Alexandria Palace Model Engineers Exhibition this year will also be special, as part of our celebration year, we have booked a larger stand than usual and are determined to fill it with as varied a range of exhibits as possible. All in all this should be a special year, I just wish I could contribute with greater involvement and contributions. If you visit the show I will probably be either on the H&WSME stand or the demonstration stand and would be most interested to meet any visitors to this site.
The links below are related to my text here and I hope you may find them useful.
I wish you all well for this new year and look forward to reading your comments of any that has the time to bother with writing any.
Brian Everett.
http://www.hwsme.org.uk/index.htm
http://www.meridienneexhibitions.co.uk/our-events-detail.php?id=0000000002
http://www.southernfed.co.uk/
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