Fair point Peaky, well made. I didn't really make my thoughts clear.
The sticker idea is a good one. I still use stickers we had made for Mike Reedy and Dez Chand. It's something where I can remember the person every time I put one on the car and I would buy some to remember Jimmy.
I was thinking that the charity thing is a once only - a few key strokes, a bit of money and its all over. Stickers - and coming back to Oople from the other groups is like the stickers - we do something to remember Jimmy and we keep doing something that reflects the effort Jimmy put in for us to make our RC world different or better.
My view was that doing something that has a future is a better way of remembering people than a one-off that is done and forgotten.
I'm still not sure I have put my thoughts down that well which, when you consider the way Jimmy was able to do that in his race reports and articles just reminds me how much better he was at that than I am. I don't want to make a deal out of it, and everyone should do what they think best. As one thing had been suggested (charity donation) I was just suggesting another.
Thinking of Vicky and Jimmy's family...
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