Absolutely, Alan. I can just see the tickets for the grand opening day going in the first two hours, with none left for mugs like us who had a four hour round trip every time we went down to help out.
Yes, I supported the Save Dreamland campaign from the word go.
Yes, I've been writing to the council and doing my bit.
Yes, I went down to the big open day to add my voice to the support.
Yes, I volunteered for the subsequent Big Tidy day where we scraped the moss and weeds off the block paving - it was a day of hard work, but it was great to see the difference.
Yes, I put my name down to volunteer at the Visitor Centre and at the re-opened park (but no, I never heard back).
Yes, I went down for the grand opening of the Expo.
And now, when all that has been done, here I am:
Unable to get priority booking for the grand opening.
Unable to qualify for a souvenir chunk of the Scenic Railway.
Unable to enter for the competition to be on the first public ride.
Ironically, all through the Save Dreamland campaign, I have never sought to get anything special for myself - I just wanted my efforts to go towards the final re-opening of this great amusement park. It was my intention to be there on the first day of operation. I would have been happy to have just bought my ticket to go along to the grand re-opening, but now I face the prospect of missing out on all this stuff and it (as you can probably tell) is really REALLY annoying the *expletive* out of me.