(09 Aug 2015, 1:15 pm)aureolin wrote I didn't bother. The Northern Nationals weren't going to be there, and there seemed to be no other discussion around it on line, so I thought I'd give it a miss! 

I'd have probably went to Shildon though, in the event that I was provided with a sensible bus service on a Sunday.

I wonder how many more people were put off by the lack of promotion.

We picked up a leaflet about it at Howlands and that's the most information we've seen. It's barely even mentioned on the NELSAM website. We couldn't even be sure that it was still going ahead and didn't want to risk trailing the boys out to something that had been cancelled (or was truly crap) and enduring the resulting meltdown - probably from my husband as well as big'un, as he's tired and grumpy enough already, today!.