Goodness me, I can't believe it, we're already at our final outdoor show of the season! As usual we have a marque stand at Sywell Aerodrome in Northamptonshire and this year was a great success on two fronts, we had good interest in the cars on the stand with many people reading our banners thus increasing the awareness of the marque. I personally handed out quite a few business cars to people over the weekend and look forward to any feedback in due course.

Bruce brought along the new MESS Gazebo for it's first outing, it was erected first thing Saturday morning, it was very soon filled with chairs and a long table donned with Tea 'n' Coffee facilities + everyone brought along different foods and homemade goodies / cakes for everyone to share over the weekend. On-site food was expensive with burgers ranging from £9.50 to £12.50!

The weather on Saturday was lovely and the new gazebo was awesome and was well used throughout the day. Overnight, however there were very high winds that caused some of the trade gazebo's to be damaged and or blown away! I'm delighted to say that our new gazebo and it's design were more than capable of withstanding the overnight conditions.

We were delighted two have newbies attend, David and Clair joined us in their beautiful Guards Red Middlebridge and we all look forward to seeing them again at future events. It was great to once again meet up with friends that we were with at the IOW only two weeks earlier. Paul and Kate joined us for the weekend in their unique Aubergine coloured Middlebridge, Alan and Sandra also joined us for the weekend and it was awesome to meet up with them again, Alan Cavendish Tribe was with us for the whole weekend and was continually on the stand, also there were Matt, Nina, Michaela and diesel (Surely the world's smallest chihuahua)

George and Maggie also joined in with the proceedings and provided plenty of good hearted banter, last but not least was Bruce and Ali. For those that don't already know, Bruce designs, manufactures and builds our Middlebridge stands and Sywell was no exception. The Sunday did see the weather get colder and with a little rain but, and I have to say the new gazebo really came into it's own. It enabled all of us to sit out of the cold, wind and rain and talk and generally have a good laugh and get to know each other even more over the weekend. I feel the best way to describe it is that the MESS is not a car club it's a group of likeminded friends that enjoy getting together at events and of course to also promote the Middlebridge marque at the same time.

We were also delighted to have Middlebridge owners join us over the weekend for a good chin-wag and to catch up, first was John & Irene Walker who own a beautiful concours sage green Middlebridge that we hope to see again in the future, Roy Therman also turned up for a good chat with us all, we hope to see his lovely Renault Electric Blue Middlebridge on the scene again soon. A full photo-shoot will be available via the marque website and our socials, should you wish to see all of the other attractions of the Sywell 'Pistons & Props' events please navigate to my earlier Sywell event overviews.