GRS - The model railway society who called wolf...
QUOTE (Robert Sands @ 14 Sep 2007, 10:18)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>I read (and checked) elsewhere that the GRS did not confirm the booking of the venue despite numerous reminders from the Town Hall and that the person/s responsible did not inform the GRS secretary.
However it was known within the GRs committee (it was widely known within the membership) that the show organiser was not the sharpest knife in the drawer and the chairman and secretary should have checked on his activities. Either way it is a complete breakdown of communication within the GRS committee and indicative of poor management.
Damn and blast them! Blast their eyes! Line them all up against the wall and shoot them...I'll be throwing rotten traction tyres at the AGM, IN FACT, I want to join the GRS just so that I can go to the AGM and scream incoherently at the committee in person.
Not only is of massive inconvenience to those who had organised their weekend/week/holiday around the show but obviously for those who were to be exhibiting, the trade support organised etc. but what happens next year?! The GRS will probably be turned down by the traders and layout owners on the grounds of not wanting to risk wasting their valuable time again...so there goes any chance of a decent Sutton Coldfield for a few years...
Personally, the fact that there were to be three Austrian prototype layouts
(out of about the ten or so mentioned) at a location only a bus ride away from me in Birmingham is rather upsetting. Not that it's made me mad (madder) or anything! There are
all explicitly European exhibitons in the West Midlands (...despite them being the Midlands of course, i.e. in the Middle and easiest for the largest number of people to attend...) aside from this one as far as I can make out.
I might actually have to catch a train (of all things!) to one somewhere else...
Goedel von Glum-but-Getting-better-by-releasing-pent-up-anger