Blimey – just had a fantastically rural weekend, down at the cottage in West Sussex – this time with the full monty 'ooh arr' add-on of a day at the South of England Show. A humungously massive place with endless entertainmant – animals, smells, obscure races and edible pork products a gogo. Man, how good was that bacon scotch egg…
Highlight has to have been the Piggy Pranks competiton – herding oinkers of different shapes and sizes through a Good Life-style obstacle course, with just a thin stick and a square of cardboard to guide the various porcine entrants through the course. But also the endless other things farmers and the non-urban community thinks up – from sheep shearing contests and 'here's what makes a good Lurcher' to the Pygmy Goat contest (one of my particualr favourites!) and the hysterical 'kids on shetland ponies' Grand National. Just a shame we never quite found the Working Ferrets display – sigh…
Add on some cracking sunshine, hat shopping for Jane, dog-walking raincoat purchasing for Clare, 'Paul's birthday present' sunbed action for Sarah and a few stalls with 'taste our fruit flavoured gin' signs, and twas a veritably fab day out.
Thence followed by a couple of nights at the cottage, admiring the new patio and Ross's gorgeous new garden table. All the better with 5 gin and tonics and some never-ending fizz resplendent on it.
Apart from Sarah falling not just once but twice in quick succesion in the car park on our way back (cue the car park attendant people swapping 'oh she's had a few too many scrumpy ciders' looks), it was a cracking couple of days.
Cheers girls! When are we next booked in?
Sx