The Little World

I was a a meeting recently that set out the rules for an upcoming scale model exhibition.

The briefing was from one of the chief organisers and was very well done. He was in a position to make the set-up and operation perfectly clear, as I suspect that he was able to control his committee beforehand.

There will be a contest amongst the scale model builders as usual, but the rules have been slightly altered – it was important that he get them to the participants months in advance so that there would be no complaints.

Of course, there will be, no matter how careful he is to spell out the requirements – people who enter contests do so to win, and frequently at all costs. Sheep stations are being played for, and the fate of empires…and people will be wringing all vestiges of humour or enjoyment out of their lives before they enter the contest.

Let us hope that the show days are dry and sunny.