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Showtime!

It's that time of year again, the Newbury Show, and this year I made a point of not planning on going with anyone else as that always results in dissatisfaction as we don't get to do the things we really wanted to do. The weather forecast was a tale of 2 halves this weekend, with glorious sunshine and summer temperatures on Saturday, followed by torrential rain and lightening for Sunday. Of course this meant that anybody contemplating the show made the decision to go on Saturday, us included. Given we knew the A34 would be a car park we took the back roads and despite the traffic being heavy it wasn't too bad - helped by the fact that we had already resigned ourselves to a queue. On getting there it was clear that the weather had brought out massive crowds and everywhere was packed, with the tents steaming and the poor animals looking like they'd had enough by lunchtime. We went into the pig tent and half the pigs had sensibly knocked their water buckets over to have a good wallow, with the other half chilling under damp towels offered by concerned owners. The ducks on the other hand just looked pretty distressed by the whole thing - I can't believe it's the best experience for any of them.

Despite being on our own and spending what seemed like ages, I didn't feel we managed to see a lot. The kids did however meet their friends and dumped me which meant I got a whole 45 mins on my own to head to the craft tent, until that is they ran out of money again and chased me down by phone for a top up! I should be grateful for these small moments - never used to happen!

Short one this week as I started writing this on Sunday as normal didn't finish it and then somehow it was Sunday again - a whole week having passed. Life is a but busy at the moment but hopefully some good things coming to fruition on the work front which will make life just a little bit easier!

Newbury Show 5(?) years ago!

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