Having had to abandon hopes of getting to Shepton Mallet in
2015 due to family health matters, I was determined to make it this year,
particularly as the usual exhibition manager, Howard Martin, has been very ill
and at the time of the show, was in the VSI ward in Plymouth awaiting a liver
transplant, so it was very much a “call to arms” to support the hard working
Small & Delightful Group team who had picked up the exhibition folder from
Howard, sent it off to the “spooks” at Cheltenham for decrypting and then
burned a lot of midnight oil in ensuring that Howard’s tradition of laying on
what many consider to be the best annual NG modelling event in the country took
place. And I am very pleased to say that they did this superbly! Once again it
was a fantastic, friendly and inspiring day and everybody that I spoke to thought
the same. Get well soon Howard!
