At Old Pond we are handing out £50 gift vouchers to two lucky people.
The first, sent last week, was to Mr WS of Hull, winner of the draw for those people who returned DVD reply cards to us. 'Thank you,' wrote Mr WS after receiving the voucher. 'It is the first time in my life I've won anything. Maybe I'm going to have a change of luck in old age.'
The second winner is Mr DW of live.co.uk who visited our stand at LAMMA and was one of the people who asked to go on our emailed newsletter list. We pulled his form out of the hat. His response? 'Makes freezing my nuts off at Lamma worth it now.'
The next time we have a prize draw will be at the Malvern tractor show on 2 and 3 March. I can only hope it will be warmer there than it was in Newark last week where we were in the more or less unheated vintage area cut off from the rest of the show by the new marquee 8.
Now that the LAMMA show has filled Newark to capacity it is scheduled to move to Peterborough next year where there is a considerable increase in outdoor space. I attended one of the exhibitors' meetings where I saw few signs of enthusiasm for the move. Typical concerns about the East of England showground were limited access, particularly from the west, limited hard standing for trucks, fewer permanent buildings and a site prone to waterlogging.
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