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This brings up another situation, problem or whatever you like to call it. We joined the "G" scale club in Sydney where it is largely based when we lived in Sydney. But we have migrated up here to the Sunshine coast to an area famed for its modern outlook and friendlyness. What an unpleasant surprise we got when we tried to join the yacht club and even worse the local model Railway club. We wre prominet members of the Royal Motor yacht Club at Newport in Sydney which if you had any idea of this part of the world you would know this is about as classy as you can get in an activity club of any type. We even had a few names and went straight up to the yacht club with our boat safelyy ensconced on the marina. What a disappointment, they were divided, arguing among themselves and other divisions of the club, and they were trying to run the registered club and when they did anything it was only as servants of the Racing division. We lasted 4 weeks and never went back and that was the final straw we sold our yacht. Then we tried to join the Model Railway club, not as big a disapointment but chauvanism and up yourself attitude were the main factors, and really we had little in common with people who wished to run indoors on those silly little layouts they have. They range of interestes and the level of inteligence was quite incredibly low. When they refused to recognise that my wife had attended several meetings was the last straw. This is a club with about 30 members and is in decline, ie their numbers are slowly falling. This does not compare with the club in Sydney that has hundreds of members and about 80 at each meeting and is in a steady expansion mode. They knew I was in to G scale and was about to go fully digital and some of the even more stupid members were cvonvinced we were trying to take thir club away from them and really we said very little to anyone, being new we were all ears with nothing to say. We had no real interest in changing anything! To the best of my knowledge their is only one other person running garden scale in the Sunshine Coast and that person is regarded as mythical. Regards ian
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