Martin Shaw
Western Thunderer
There I was sitting last evening with a recent MRJ on my lap and a suitably Christian piece of music on the gramophone, Berlioz Requiem which I find magnificent, when my mind wandered to question my relationship with the magazine. Issue 295 has just been published so another 5 will see us at 300 and me likely 70 years old which means I have been reading it since I was 31, eek. Of late I have found that it has become a habit, not an unpleasant one mind, but none the less at £6.20 a copy do I want to carry on regardless? I do little enough actual modelling these days and in addition after nearly 40 years there is inevitably some repetition of subject matter type, even if individual articles can be most absorbing. Having collected it from issue 0 I am perhaps reluctant to give it up however 300 seems a nice round number to stop at, and then of course how do I dispose of them, they are surely worthless monetarily at least. It is of course a first world problem and frankly given the over abundance available secondhand probably the nearest skip is the pragmatic solution. Anyone want a near mint collection, 0-294 plus compendia?
Martin
Martin