Yesterday was the most exciting of days - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang arrived at the exhibition space. It fitted into the goods lift with one inch to spare!! Looking shiny and very beautiful it is sitting beside A Quiet Afternoon in Cloud Cuckoo Valley as we build the exhibition around them. Other works were collected this week and more will arrive next week. We have an abundance of incredible work for this wonderful exhibition. Thank you to all of you for your amazing support.

It has been a busy week - the rest of Cloud Cuckoo Valley arrived at Thinktank and yesterday we raised the train onto the tracks. It looks magnificant! We have been very active painting MDF boards with white paint and Tim Griffiths from the Rowland Emett Society has collected an amazing selection of Automata for the exhibition. The date for the preview is still to be confirmed but most likely the weekend of 3rd December so please pencil this into your diaries. We are looking forward to seeing you all there.

Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery will be hosting a soft opening for their friends and partons in early December and all you wonderful Just Giving Donors will be invited. The date is yet to be confirmed but when it is agreed, I will post notice on this page. I hope that many of you will be able to attend to see these wonderful machines that you have kindly helped to exhibit.

We had an exciting day on Monday when we received part of Cloud Cuckoo Valley at Thinktank. Next Wednesday, we will have a busy day when the rest of this fantastic machine will arrive along. It is very good to see the crates sitting in the exhibition space creating a sense of excitement. Tim Griffiths, Rowland Emett Society has been touring the country far and wide to collect together many pieces of Automata and Kinetic Art and the Chitty Car will arrive later in November.