Strana 107
That's what we say here:
'Too many dogs kill the
hare.'
I'm not sure how to translate this proverb
into English in a way that is understandable
to our non-Czech and non-Slovak readers.
However, it's quite possible that English has
a similar proverb, and we can't rule out the
possibility that we borrowed this proverb from
someone else a long time ago.
Today, I am not here to reflect on linguistics
and the origin of sayings, but to explain why
this issue of Info magazine is reaching you
two days late. The first reason, the one-day
delay, is purely pragmatic; the second is purely
about me. I admit that the following lines are
not intended as self-flagellation, but rather
as a glimpse behind the scenes of how Info is
created for you.
Finalising the programme and refining the
details of the E
-
Day 'modelling celebration'
in Litoměřice this weekend (the previous one
for readers of the English edition, of course)
meant that we had to postpone the release
of the E
-
Day special issue until Tuesday,
30 September. Since the regular October issue
of Info magazine was due to be published the
following day, we have decided to delay its
release until Thursday, 2 October. Finalising
the magazine and converting it into the Triobo
system, through which you read the issue,
is demanding and time-consuming in terms of
both human resources and technology.
I am writing this column at 'five past twelve',
or more accurately, 'after the five', on Thursday
2 October, which suggests that the plan did not
work out.
My head is filled with thoughts about what we
mustn't forget in the run-up to the E
-
Day event,
both in general, based on event preparation
meetings and the duties of our main E
-
Day
staff, and personally. This mainly concerns
my own responsibilities, such as preparing
prizes for the winners of the individual
categories and organising modelling club
shows. Notably, the number of modelling clubs
and SIG registrations for this year's E
-
Day has
increased by a third compared to last year.
Many of you will understand that this is where
the dogs I wrote about at the beginning come
in: the ones that ultimately kill the hare.
As I was leaving Eduard's headquarters in
Obrnice today, satisfied that I had finalised the
last of the preparations for the upcoming event,
my phone rang. It was Kateřina Borecká, the
head of the marketing department, who asked
me how the finalisation of the Info magazine
was going. She and her colleague, the graphic
designer Petr, were waiting for the missing
items. When I asked what was missing, she
replied, 'Tail End Charlie...' A string of thoughts
ran through my head, reminding me that just
yesterday I had been thinking about the article
I had to write, contemplating the best topic:
whether to write about the perhaps finally
arriving Indian summer or the Fw 190, which
is being restored in Turkey. But these thoughts
simply evaporated from my head, and it was
only Kateřina who brought me back to reality.
Of course, there was nothing left to do but
tell Kateřina that we would have to publish
the info magazine on Friday and that I would
rectify the situation in the meantime. I seem
to be doing that, and I'll be finished soon.
But before I finish, I'll try to find something
positive about this time shift – something that
might even surpass the efforts of my alibi-
seeking hounds. Thanks to the fact that the
magazine will be published just one day before
E
-
Day, when Friday's programme will be in full
swing, we will be able to keep secret until the
last moment what the gift kit for exhibiting
modellers will be: a brand new 1/72 scale
Eduard Enstrom helicopter, which we needed
to give adequate space to in the magazine.
I'm sure you've read a lot about it.
So perhaps I can use another proverb:
'Every
cloud has a silver lining'
, although many of you
would probably apply a different proverb to me
today:
'Those who are not blessed will not buy
it at the pharmacy!'
A LITTLE PROVERB
Text: Jan Zdiarský
INFO Eduard
107
October 2025