John Pickup wrote:I should like to come to the meet up but I need notice so I can book the time off. It would mean an overnight stop for me.
We also, John, we normally spend a night or two in the area. Daisy normally does too. We've stayed in quite a few nice places with Daisy and her hubby. There's much to choose from in that area, John.
One year we stayed in a hotel just outside of Reading, Daisy was in the room below us, and I was on the phone to her asking which room she was in. She said just below yours. So I stamped on the floor and said, can you hear that Daisy!!! Which she did!
You remember, Daisy?
Julian gave an exclamation and nudged George.
"See that? It's the black Bentley again. KMF 102!"
Talking of Beaconsfield, there was a lovely article on model villages on the BBC's website this morning, including Bekonscot: The big joy of small villages
Green Hedges even gets a mention!
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It was a nuisance. An adventure was one thing - but an adventure without anything to eat was quite another thing. That wouldn't do at all. (The Valley of Adventure)
I love model villages, Bekonscot is a really lovely one, so well, done, and the railway going around it is really fabulous. It has a camera on one of the trains so you can view the ride from the train, as it were.
Julian gave an exclamation and nudged George.
"See that? It's the black Bentley again. KMF 102!"
A very enjoyable article. I like the look of the model village of Bourton-on-the-Water, with one of the highlights being "the model of the model village in the model pub's model garden. And it goes on, with a model in that model, and then a painted model in the model's model's model."
According to the sentence just beneath the picture of Green Hedges, Enid Blyton lived next door to the Callinghams (Roland Callingham started Bekonscot).
"Heyho for a starry night and a heathery bed!" - Jack, The Secret Island.
"There is no bond like the bond of having read and liked the same books."
- E. Nesbit, The Wonderful Garden.
I would also like to meet up - Beaconsfield fine by me as I haven' t been to the model village either. I have been to the Red Lion though and it isn't that great - not of the Spade Oak standards. There was a row of Blyton books on a very high shelf which was unreachable - deliberately I would guess so that they wouldn't disappear!. 19/20 September would be great from a personal perspective or 5/6 September just to throw in some dates as a start.
I could probably do most dates in August or September (except the last week of September) provided I know in advance so I can ask for that particular day off. (I do shift work 5 days a week, but it's flexible as to which days.) Sat 19 or Sun 20 should work for me as well.
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It was a nuisance. An adventure was one thing - but an adventure without anything to eat was quite another thing. That wouldn't do at all. (The Valley of Adventure)
Sadly the 19 or 20 would not work for me. I could do the 12th of September if that would suit others?
"What a lot of trouble one avoids if one refuses to have anything to do with the common herd. To have no job, to devote ones life to literature, is the most wonderful thing in the world. - Cicero
