AES trade show kempton park

[wayne balcombe]

Hi all,

i've just got home after spending the day at the AES trade show. firstly i'd like to say thank you to Mark, Kim, Ray and Angela for the warm welcome i recieved at the BTS stand it was nice meeting and chatting with you. I'm afraid i didn't get to meet any of the the other members but i'm sure there will be many opertunities.

I was quite impressed with the array and variation in products and specimins at the show and have a couple of new additions to my collection which will be transfered to there new homes shortly, i bought a juvenile Selenocosmia Peerboomi and a sub-adult Theraphosa Apophysis, had i been half an hour earlier i would have left with what seemed to be the only Poecilotheria Metalica for sale in the south east but it had been sold.

all in all a good day out and am looking forward to the next.

wayne

[Mrs Linda Street]

Hi Wayne, glad to hear you had a nice day, you'll have to post pics of your new T's when you've got them sorted.

[matthew spooner]

i agree, a totally fantastic day. everyone at our club stand managed to sell 95% of stock, i think it was helped by the lack of tarantula stalls this year, did anybody else notice that or was it just my imagination? well i managed to land myself a gravid b.vagans, a couple of new tanks, 2 p.imperator and a couple of giant asian mantids, am well chuffed with the day, pub on the way home wernt too bad either lol

[matthew spooner]

oh and was nice to see kim, mark, ray, angela, andrew, ray, pete and mary, always nice to catch up

[wayne balcombe]

i've not really been to that many of these sort of trade shows, a few in germany and they did seem to have alot more in the way of spiders but i found quite a few stands today with spiders, mostly the more common species but a few pieces of interest.