Just a Thought

Nothing so focuses the mind on the good things we have as the loss of them, and  how they had been taken for granted.  Nothing else so reminds us that we appreciate  most things only when they are no more.  And nothing is a better example than the Henley Exhibition, the greatest of our great institutions, which was the highlight of the Meccano year. 

But why am I only saying it now?  A bereavement engenders not only sadness, but feelings of guilt.  If we had bickered less over trivia and written kinder things, would it have encouraged the organisers more, and might the exhibition have lived on?

Henley was the pioneer and progenitor of all the British exhibitions. For 21 years,  generously provided and efficiently run, its value to the hobby has been inestimable.  I am sorry that I was around only for the last eight of them.  Thank you, Geoff Wright, belatedly.