You should have been at the IPMS show, on Sunday, at Telford; even though, for obvious reasons, it had to be two days early, nobody moved, or uttered a sound…

I was there on Sunday and, being aware of the time, was just thinking that nobody was going to observe the two-minute silence when the first notes of the bugle call sounded…

…I suppose I shouldn’t have been too surprised, given the subjects of most of the models on show, that the silence was observed so impeccably, but then not all the visitors (or exhibitors) were British. It was both impressive and suitably understated. I wonder what the foreign visitors made of it?