orange-vested orderlies arranged mini-stands filled with leaflets and brochures and whistles and hats and florescent items , torches , bangles and just about everything else that could conceivably be used to get attention , whilst friends took photos , made phone calls , engaged sleepy-eyed passers-by with excitedly jabbered information about all that planning and preparation , the long nights and early mornings , quick teas and gulped down luncheons , the perspiration , the self-denial , the covert brilliance , the heroes unsung ; all that and more coming together to a single point , smoothly like marshmallows drenched in honey , thought drade with satisfaction .