In article <ap.038f985bae.a701a0a.m.conroy@argonet.co.uk>,
ROUGOL <show2024@helpful-demon.co.uk> wrote:

After a couple of years away the RISC OS London Show returns in a few
weeks in a swanky new venue!

Saturday 26th October 2024, open 11am - 4pm

Harrow District Masonic Centre
Northwick Circle
Kenton
Harrow
HA3 0EL

Whilst the new venue looks more accessible, and I would be pleased to give
it a go, it unfortunately clashes with the "Great British model railway
show" at Gaydon, at which I will be manning the stand of the LNWR society.

If you can avoid this clash next year, I will certainly try to make it.

Good luck

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On 12 Oct 2024 as I do recall,
ROUGOL wrote:

[snip]

As this is the first London Show for a while, the first properly
post-covid, and at a new venue, this is all a bit of an experiment to see
if enough people still have the appetite for a physical show. So if you
want to see shows continue, do come along and support it. This is your opportunity to chat with developers and fellow enthusiasts, hear the
latest news, catch up with old friends, and maybe make some new ones :-)

If I bring along my (now even older) box of spare software and hardware
bits, will there be a second-hand stall interested in it as a donation?


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Profanity is the one language all programmers know best.

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On Sat, 12 Oct 24 16:45:02 UTC
Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> wrote:

In article <ap.038f985bae.a701a0a.m.conroy@argonet.co.uk>,
ROUGOL <show2024@helpful-demon.co.uk> wrote:

After a couple of years away the RISC OS London Show returns in a few
weeks in a swanky new venue!

Saturday 26th October 2024, open 11am - 4pm

Harrow District Masonic Centre
Northwick Circle
Kenton
Harrow
HA3 0EL

Whilst the new venue looks more accessible, and I would be pleased to give
it a go, it unfortunately clashes with the "Great British model railway
show" at Gaydon, at which I will be manning the stand of the LNWR society.

If you can avoid this clash next year, I will certainly try to make it.

Good luck

Right up till Tuesday I was intending to go to this, but then got some horrible bug - that seems like it intends to hang around. This is most frustrating :(

Will Any of the show be put online?

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On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 15:31:43 +0100
Folderol <general@musically.me.uk> wrote:

On Sat, 12 Oct 24 16:45:02 UTC
Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> wrote:

In article <ap.038f985bae.a701a0a.m.conroy@argonet.co.uk>,
ROUGOL <show2024@helpful-demon.co.uk> wrote:

Right up till Tuesday I was intending to go to this, but then got some horrible
bug - that seems like it intends to hang around. This is most frustrating :(

Will Any of the show be put online?

... and just to make it worse, I've just seen the news on c.s.a.announce. I'm not sure if I'd have been able to put my hand in my pocket, but I certainly would have been *very* interested in this :(

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On 12 Oct 2024 as I do recall,
ROUGOL wrote:

[snip]

The new venue is even better connected than before. It has plenty of free parking and Kenton station is only 5 minutes walk away.

...if you walk in the right direction! :-(

I made the mistake of not bringing my A-Z, because I had a heavy box to
carry, and also made the mistake of assuming that the venue would be as
obvious as it appeared to be from the map (that imposing wide circle is actually hidden down some small residential sidestreets) and that the Underground station would have the customary street map of the vicinity displayed outside, usually a safe bet. On this occasion the display
was empty....

As a result it took me over half an hour to find the venue while walking
in circles around Kenton and Northwick Park looking for the right
'ring road'; even a A4 piece of paper on the railings outside the
station indicating whether to turn left or right would have saved a lot
of time. When I did find the place, which turned out to be a *Masonic
Centre* and not, as I had remembered it, a Methodist Centre, I then
spent five minutes or so wandering through the extensive car park trying
to locate the entrance door.

Fortunately I encountered several other prospective attendees engaged in
the same exercise, because when we did find what appeared to be the main entrance on the opposite side of the circle, it opened into a grand
lobby full of Masons going about their business with no sign of anything
RISC OS related - if I had been on my own, I might well have turned tail
at that point. The actual exhibition was unsignposted and around a
corner in an inner room.

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In article <780c9fb65b.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk>,
Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> wrote:

Fortunately I encountered several other prospective attendees engaged in
the same exercise, because when we did find what appeared to be the main entrance on the opposite side of the circle, it opened into a grand
lobby full of Masons going about their business with no sign of anything
RISC OS related - if I had been on my own, I might well have turned tail
at that point. The actual exhibition was unsignposted and around a
corner in an inner room.

I'd used !RiscOSM to plan the route carefully so the journey, if tedious traffic wise, was straightforward.

However, similar to Harriet's experience, I drove round the circle twice.

The Masonic Centre does not seem to have a sign at the road entrance so I
had to guess which was he correct way in. As Harriet said, no clues about
RISC OS. In the lobby, they had a big screen showing events but only
Masonic ones were listed, not us. Perhaps you could SQUARE this up next
time and enCOMPASS these remarks. ;-)

Apart from that, brilliant show.

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Chris

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In article <5bb6d6baefnewslists@npost.uk>, Chris Newman
<newslists@npost.uk> wrote:

I'd used !RiscOSM to plan the route carefully so the
journey, if tedious traffic wise, was straightforward.

However, similar to Harriet's experience, I drove round
the circle twice.

Expecting to arrive on foot, I'd used Street View to find
my way from the Underground to the show, so I had no
difficulty in recognising the entrance. What a shame that
it was only that last step which was of use to me. By next
year, I'll have forgotten where to go and have to do it all
over again. :-(

John

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newsmcc@blueyonder.co.uk
j dot mccartney atte blueyonder dot co dot uk

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In article <5bb6d96d23newsmcc@blueyonder.co.uk>, John <newsmcc@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

At the last minute my wife and I had to change our travel
plans.

Every cloud and all that...

The train tickets cost us £69 but we were able to cancel
them and get a refund.

My car (a 2020 1 litre Ford Focus with a smidgen over
18,000 miles on the clock) showed 63.2 mpg for the return
trip of 280 miles. That works out at 4.43 gallons or just
over 20 litres. I filled up yesterday at 129.9 pence/litre
to discover that it had cost only just over £21 for the
round trip - a saving of more than two thirds of the cost
of the train tickets. Oh, I forgot to mention the £70 it
cost me to renew my wrinkly's Railcard.

What price public transport?

John

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newsmcc@blueyonder.co.uk
j dot mccartney atte blueyonder dot co dot uk

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In article <780c9fb65b.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk>, Harriet
Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> wrote:

<snip>

I made the mistake of not bringing my A-Z...

At the last minute my wife and I had to change our travel
plans. After getting up at 5.00 to catch a train at 6.40,
my wife found a text informing her that the return journey
would end at Birmingham rather than in the wilds of east
Shropshire. We decided that we could cope; there would be
other, later, trains.

A short while later, she received another missive which
carried the wonderful news that the train (on which we were
due to depart) had been cancelled.

Oh, joy!

So we (by which I mean *I*) said I would drive.

Our last major road junction was where we left the A40 at
Northolt. No problem until I noticed that the car's satnav
wanted me to continue along the A40 (to where, I have no
idea). I took the exit, assuming that it recalculate the
route. I was wrong. I then made the fundamental error of
listening to my wife's instructions (via Google Maps) *and*
trying to follow the turn indications from the satnav.

Where we ended up, I have no idea. However, I opted for a
single source of instructions from then on (guess what that
source was - you married blokes will have no difficulty in
working that one out). We arrive only 5 minutes later than
expected at 10.35 and with only just enough time to make it
to the loo!!

We^H^H I enjoyed the show (except that I didn't dare buy
what I wanted, being under the eagle eye of my financial
director) but didn't spend enough time visiting the stands
on account of sitting in 3 of the talks and visiting
Sainsburys for a bite to eat.

We came home via the M1 rather than try the reverse journey
to to the A40.

I must look on Google Maps and try to make out where the
satnav wanted to go.

Next year, we'll probably stay with our son and his family
in Lightwater and catch the train into London from Ascot.

John

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newsmcc@blueyonder.co.uk
j dot mccartney atte blueyonder dot co dot uk

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In article <5bb6d9eeddnewsmcc@blueyonder.co.uk>,
John <newsmcc@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

Expecting to arrive on foot

This thread is rather like the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

No-one is talking about the production!

John

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On 28 Oct 2024 as I do recall,
John wrote:

[snip]

What price public transport?

The price of public transport is that other people do the navigating for
you!

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Dawn: The time when men of reason go to bed.

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In article <671f62f9$0$28076$426a74cc@news.free.fr>,
John Williams (News) <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

In article <5bb6d9eeddnewsmcc@blueyonder.co.uk>,
John <newsmcc@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

Expecting to arrive on foot

This thread is rather like the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

No-one is talking about the production!

I did. I said it was brilliant.

I learnt things, spent money and got goodies. What more is there to life?
I was able to do this of course becaus She Who Must Be Obeyed was not
with me. Tee, hee.

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Chris

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