Postal Delivery!

This is an unbelievable story!  

It happened though, honestly!

We took delivery today of two extremely large boxes, very unexpected but accepted anyhow as a delivery was expected .... just not a large box ..... or two...


You can see how large the box is - the top is level with my shoulders!!

Each box is stuffed full of paper and as we pulled out all this paper  ....

..... we found that the paper was only 12 inches wide and there was miles of it!   

That's what it seemed like anyway!





Here are the contents of the first box..........
..... yes! we were a bit astounded as well.

In these days of saving on packaging ....

...  the cardboard is a very good quality, we are hoping to recycle if we can .............

.... and here is the other box ........

nuf sed!!!

Great New Venue for an AGM

Vintage Trains Society held its AGM today at a new venue. Previous meetings were held at the venue next door to the site but today's meeting was held across the road.


This venue is on the main Warwick Road and accessible by road, rail and bus and this ease of access showed in the number of people who attended.  


The building is pre-war and, as well as being opposite the railway works, is well known in the area which is typical for a former industrial area of a big City; lots of villa type houses, small industrial units, empty sites and cosmopolitan living.  
OK.  
It's run down a bit!  lol



The hired room was on the first floor, accessible by stairs and lift, and was laid out for the meeting in theatre formation with the buffet set in a separate side area.  


There was tea and coffee waiting for us with one of the members kindly playing 'Mother'!
The room was large and additional space on the left made the room appear very wide.  
The meeting started with the normal routine listed on the Agenda and then there was a break in the proceedings for lunch.  

My Plate

PJ's Plate

The buffet was superb, more then ample for the number of people who attended with a great variety of food.


After we re-convened, members of the public were allowed in to attend a presentation, given by Michael Whitehouse, on the vision for Vintage Trains and its associated businesses.  So very interesting, with lots of questions and answers afterwards.  
I can only say that if this vision is fulfilled, Steam Trains at Tyseley has a wonderful future.