phildunford

Excellent day. Special mention for Rob L for organizing the food & Karl for a great display.

Been pretty despondent about UKPS lately, but this was a great AGM - lots of enthusiasm and great ideas. Hopefully a chance for us to put recent petty squabbles behind us and start building up the society agaiin.

Was great to see new faces as well as some familiar ones...

Used to make experimental quantities when I had a small quantity of odd wood. Best was from grapevine thinnings, made in a treacle tin!

This is the largest problem that the hobby in the UK currently faces.

I believe Wayne may be talking with the Home Office, but it seems to me they would be delighted to stifle our hobby by the back door.

Some thoughts:

1) There is a lot you can make without any of these pre-cursors. Black powder mixtures etc.

2) Some suppliers might be willing to trade in person at meets - if we had any!

3) You could create a limited company, in which case this law does not apply. However, that might cause even more paperwork - has anyone done it?