Harrogate anyone?

Even though I could go Friday it was such a bloody nightmare last year with all the doddering old farts cluttering up the place I'll either give it a miss completely or go Saturday.

I noted a deafening silence when I asked for views on whether Sat or Sun would be the better day to go, given a choice (which I still

*might* have). Fri/tomorrow sounds to be a bad choice, not an option for me anyway. No-one else here has volunteered that they might go on Sunday, some have said Sat. Sunday will probably be queiter, will I miss anything by going then, if I can make it for a reasonable hour?

Tim

That does tend to be true. I hope to survive to be one of the old farts in another 25 years time.

Mark Rand RTFM

So that makes you a cool forty-six then? :)

I am, by the way, set to ponder just how old this N. O'Spam person really is.

Obviously quite young, and hailing from the modern school of little regard for his elders, he feels the need to hide away behind a nom de guerre.

What a nice man!

Mike

I'm an old fart, I was young once but that was many, many decades ago. If I ever get to the doddering old fart stage then I promise I'll never ever clutter up the aisles at Harrogate. It's a show that has seriously outgrown the location, the doddering senile old farts just push it over the edge and turn it into a deeply unpleasant experience. Sharing a glorified unventilated tin shed with thousands of BO laden pensioners stinking of piss when it's 70 deg F outside and touching 80 deg F inside is not my idea of fun. It'll be just my luck that they all turn up on Saturday this year.......

People do say this about old people but the worst smells I have ever had to contend with have come from young people (under 25 or so) especially the smell of stale urine.

I hope I don't smell but one never knows about oneself because if you do you would be used to it.

I am not that young but will be 76 in august.

First trip to Harrogate was a Friday, being a working day it should be quiter than Saturday, wrong. Crushed to death, couldn't get at the stalls. Certain the stink was the other guy. Second trip I went along was a Sunday. I knew the stink was me because there was only me there and everything I wanted had been sold. Third trip I went on a Saturday, I could see stuff, buy stuff and there was comfortable ambiguity about where the stink might be coming from.

So should be there tomorrow morning...

Steve

I got my half century at the end of March this year. Most of the children at work think that I'm already an old fart. I have to keep telling them that there is a difference between old fart and miserable git.

Mark Rand RTFM

How about a miserable old fart?

Regards, Tony

What is at Harrogate? I'm a bit far away to see it. Website with pictures would be nice.

Wes

Single website is a little lacking in pictures.

But many of the clubs listed will have pictures of what they were showing. Harrogate is one of the larger model engineering exhibitions with a large number of models running around outside.