Another busy weekend at Peterborough this year. You saw some of my efforts yesterday, but there was much more filming, some done on proper big cameras! BRM readers will be finding this on your DVDs in coming months, assuming Chris Meads has forgiven us for showing the state of his control panel anyway...
Now, as I was showing the Cake Box diorama stuff, there had been threats of much cake coming my way. As it was, there was some coffee and walnut from Mr Mead (he bakes as well as builds models) and a morsel from the organisers - the 10th birthday cake having to streatch a long way. Those were Friday, Saturday saw Mrs Snowdon send in, via her husband, excellent carrot and walnut. Sunday, nothing. Boo.
Never mind, there were excellent layouts and trade but I saw very little of them - I was there to WORK!
So we finally learn what sort of work those BRM / Grainge & Hodder workstations were designed for.
ReplyDeleteThat's right - disposing of the "show special" chocolate and beetroot cake, with banana flavour icing.
Or perhaps not - who knows?
Saying that, I'm sure the fabled "cake disposal service" must be really hard work - especially if chocolate, coffee or other weird flavours are involved.
Joking aside, I'd be very surprised if that workstation actually has much empty space in it for more than a few minutes over a typical show weekend - particularly when you get show visitors appearing from nowhere and asking you stuff like how to add wasp stripes to locos, set the height of Kadee couplers, assemble gearboxes, set up trolley poles on model trams, fit OHLE to layouts, or any of the the other railway modelling jobs you really enjoy doing (or not, as the case may be).