A Day At The Races

Sunday the 17th saw Time Was... for the first time at York Racecourse for a Toyfair. Quite a trip, 200 miles there and back, but it's really just up the A1 and the A64 so nice and easy. Despite it being in the middle of April it was very sunny first thing, whatever happened to April showers??? When we arrived we were near the glass fronted wall with the sun streaming in. Well after just 10 minutes of starting to set up, it wasn't just the sun that was streaming. It was just like being in a Greenhouse, thank heavens when the sun moved round and it cooled down. And they're off!!! Well so we thought, at 10 the doors opened, by 10:30 we had done £50.00. Not bad for a first time, beats the bookies any day. But by 2:00 pm we had done just £60.00 overall. It was like pulling teeth from a toothless bod. Could it be that the toyfair was predominately trains and our Doctor Who, Star Trek and Fantasy Figures didn't quite gel with folks or was it probably due to the nice sunny day? Either ways it wasn't busy at all, not many buyers about. Still worth a try, but we seem to have backed a half lame donkey yesterday. Still Huntingdon next Bank Holiday Monday, let's hope for better.