Reasons to publish, and look forward to, club dates
Welcome to the March edition of EIM and in this issue we reinstate a feature that has been missing from these pages for just about two years – the diary! The welcome arrival of a series of public running dates from the North Wilts ME encouraged us to at last publish the diary once more, it having of course been rendered redundant by the Covid pandemic. The fact that we have been able to compile half a page of entries is a clear and hopeful indication that we really are on the road back to normal activities.
In normal times your editor at this time of year would be scouring club websites for lists of public running dates and meetings before compiling the diary but for now, we are only including dates that have been confirmed, either by being specifically sent to us or published in club magazines received at the EIM office.
Obviously a new public running season is just around the corner and we want to give the clubs as much publicity as possible. So please, to ensure inclusion in next month’s listing please check with your club’s programme secretary and get them to send in dates of public running sessions, events, members meetings and the like to us at the address below. Your meetings being published in our diary could encourage readers to visit and get your club some extra members!
Meanwhile in further support for our model engineering societies, we will be starting a new, hopefully regular feature next month taking a look inside clubs, produced by members of the club in question. And talking of events, this month sees the Midlands Garden Rail Show, sponsored by ourselves and our sister magazine Gardenrail. Some readers might think such things are a bit small scale for them but why not give the show a look? After so long without any shows, who wants to turn down a day out?
Meanwhile, we’ve done our best to assemble another varied selection of features in this issue, from wheel turning to pump making to spark arresting and milling machine reviving! Enjoy your EIM.