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Originally Posted by Boater Sam
I fully understand the transport problems and the back breaking work done by Mike Barker and others in getting the stock to auction.
However, just to be devil's advocate for a moment, Mike & co are not going to want to do this for ever. Is it time to start using alternating venues and transport to suit before we are faced with no one to do the donkey work anywhere?
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That is a very reasonable point. Mike stood down from the committee last year, and this is probably his first step of gradually doing less for the BVWS. He has put in many thousands of hours over the years for the society, and I think we are overdue for others to start taking over the auction work from him.
We have had a couple of other committee changes recently (due to older members needing to step down). These, along with the change of chairman last year, replacement venue for Harpenden meetings, and various other matters have kept the committee especially busy recently. I think once things have settled down, reducing Mike's workload has to be a priority.
(This is all my opinion, not stating any official BVWS position).