Rolling Along

How you're going to get your layout in and out of a show venue is not always high on the list of considerations when its designed.In our experience it's one of those thing you adapt and improvise as you go along.Over the years we've progressed from purely manual handing, deploying a squad of operators to lift and carry boards over long distances, and even up and down flights of stairs, to investing in a heavy-duty barrow to wheel sections of layout into the venue.But with Minffordd being transported by car, instead of a hired van, we've found it's a struggle to find space for the barrow in a situation where every square inch is prisoner.As so often a potential solution emerged out of a chance conversation at the weekend.Chewing over the logistics of getting the layout into the venue at Porthmadog next weekend we wondered whether it would be worth investing in a small skate trolley, which would be easier to fit in one of the cars.Which is when Himself had another of his…