You aren’t going to believe this, but I haven’t bought the pork pie. It looks like you’ll have to buy an All Day Breakfast in the Stockman’s Grill. I’m sure that Steve will oblige, Ivan!

Chris- I thought that it was easy to get out of Wales (just look at the Severn Bridge tolls), but the tricky bit was getting back in. Last time I went over the bridge it cost me £12.80, but I did have a trailer as well as an English registration plate! Put a daffodil in your lapel and you should be OK.

See you both on Saturday.

Got there at 9.30 this morning and laid out the stand. It’s better that way because I can get things ready and talk to the stewards about what we want before it gets busy. Still, here’s a quick view of it before everyone turns up.

By the way- the auction looks to be a good one this year. For catalogues have a look on the H.J.Pugh website.

If you intend to have a poke about the auction I would wear wellies. It was getting very muddy and it was only half there. In fact I got soaked walking around and had to go to the Stockman’s Grill to test the All Day Breakfast to make sure it is going to be up to the usual standard- it was and it certainly restored my warmth and spirits!
The BMB is very interesting in that it has the only finger bar mower that I have ever seen on one. It belongs to Robert Biggs.

And a few more because I didn’t want to exceed the size of the previous posting. My apologies if your particular machine isn’t shown but there were so many people standing around it was impossible to take pictures of some of the exhibits.

The Lego MF135 was actually full size with a drivable 135 skid unit inside- very clever and they deserve to win something for effort alone.