Expong and the real thing
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Well Expo NG went off really well in the end despite some last moment difficlties with my entire rosta of opperators going sick on me at the last moment. The day was saved however by super hero Tevor standing in at the last moment even if this did entail me driving fifty miles in the wrong direction over tractor infested country roads to pick him up up and drop him back. Admited,y there were far fewer agricultural vehicles on the return leg at 1am in the morning but that was more than made up for by the fog! Despite all this excitement it was a very enjoyable show withlots of appreciative vistitors and lots fof people I hadn't met in a while to make things interesting - a while being 30 years in one case! In some ways it was a little bit like preaching to the converted as it was a very WDLR savy crowd so more time was spent talking about gearboxes than the overall picture like at Peterborough the other week. Still fun just a different kind of fun!
And talking of a different kind of fun this was abundant at the Apedale members day yesterday where Simon and I got given a real WWI protected Simplex to play with up and down the field railway. Here is me thouroughly enjoying myself;
And here is me being rescued after embarasingly staling it on a hill start right at the very end of the line;
This whole expiriance only increased my admiration for the people who did this for real, in the dark, with the doors closed, with people shooting at them and pulling several tons of explosives.
It also made me appreciate that a bloody big profesional Canon camera is a liability in such circumstances and that this picture just proves that it it is not the best thing to try a selfie with!
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