The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: HappyHippy on June 24, 2012, 10:11:05 am
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I'll be there this year ;D
Will we have a TAS meet up ?
I'll definately be there on the Tuesday, not sure about the other days yet.
Karen :wave:
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I won't be as they don't let dogs in the showground and we have nowhere to leave our two :dog: :dog: :'(
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We'll be there all 3 days, showing pigs, we've got 5 Tamworths and 2 Hampshires entered ;D
See you there
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Il be there taking my turn on a promote east yorkshire local food stand. Will try and find anyone whos there to put faces to the names.
Arl
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After missing the RHS over the weekend as a result of being at work, I'll be making the effort to go. Need my fix!! ;D
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Been to drop the caravan off tonight, it is a bit soggy, hopefully the weather will dry up a bit before the show starts :fc:
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Oh good ! :fc: the weather does improve !
I'd heard rumblings that it might have been cancelled if the weather got worse - really hope not :fc:
See you next week :wave:
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I have been to the larger shows (not this one) as a 'tourist' but never as an exhibitor.... I get told that the larger commercial farmers dominate the awards so its pointless for someone like me to try to contend to be placed! I am guessing from the interest the shows generate from you folks that this is a total load of old tosh! LOL
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I would love to go, weather permitting :fc:
Unless I find someone between now and then i will be a free spirit so to speak so anyone up for a cuppa come midday :eyelashes:
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I have been to the larger shows (not this one) as a 'tourist' but never as an exhibitor.... I get told that the larger commercial farmers dominate the awards so its pointless for someone like me to try to contend to be placed! I am guessing from the interest the shows generate from you folks that this is a total load of old tosh! LOL
That's an interesting point, and I guess it depends. I think some of the commercial guys do dominate some areas (the big breeds of beef cattle for instance) but look in other areas and it is smallholders- pigs, goats, poultry, some breeds of sheep, and probably some of the dairy cattle/rarer breeds of cattle. Not sure if that's the same for the Great Yorkshire, but it is for the Royal Highland. I guess it depends on what you want to show!
Beth
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people get told a lot and it is usually incorrect or without foundation you have to be in it to win it
having the defeatist attitude before entering is possibly not the best starting point
try some of the smaller shows first to see how you and more importantly your stock get on :farmer:
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we would love to be going but once again the first of my London trips falls exactly on those days >:( so working i shall be
Friends of ours show sheep there and regularly take some of the biggest accolades and they're hobbyists :thumbsup:
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OH was told it's likely to be cancelled, not so much because of the showground, but could be problems with car parking (mind you, one year they had tractors on standby to drag people out).
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(mind you, one year they had tractors on standby to drag people out).
Last year at Lesmahagow show (just a wee local show) they had tractors to pull folk in - that's die hard determination for you :o :thumbsup: ;D ;D ;D
It'll be fine :fc: ;)
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most of the car parking is on the golf course and very very different to any other show :farmer:
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(mind you, one year they had tractors on standby to drag people out).
Last year at Lesmahagow show (just a wee local show) they had tractors to pull folk in - that's die hard determination for you :o :thumbsup: ;D ;D ;D
It'll be fine :fc: ;)
But did they let / get them out? ;D
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We've just been on the web-site to check because we'd heard rumours that they were going to cancel.
They've closed some of the Car-parks and want visitors to Park and Ride if they can.
I've copied this from their Web-site.
Park and Ride: A new Park and Ride service will run from 1.5 miles south of Harrogate, at Plumpton Bar on the A661 Wetherby to Harrogate road. There will then be a free shuttle bus service to the showground.
Public transport: Northern Rail has additional services into Harrogate, plus extra carriages. See: http://www.northernrail.org/journey/planner/ (http://www.northernrail.org/journey/planner/)
More free shuttle buses will run from Harrogate Railway Station in the centre of town to the showground.
Advice:
- Please car share if at all possible
- Please consider using public transport
- Please remember this is an agricultural show, the weather has been very wet and choose appropriate footwear.
Gates open at 7.30am each day.
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people get told a lot and it is usually incorrect or without foundation you have to be in it to win it
having the defeatist attitude before entering is possibly not the best starting point
try some of the smaller shows first to see how you and more importantly your stock get on :farmer:
LOL Robert..... I am never one to be 'told' i can't or shouldn't do something. I have entered the Midsomerset show this coming August and another one the 'Frome Cheese Show' in September. Not one to be defeatest I am entering 5 classes and even if I come last, I am going to have a great time doing it.
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good on you you will enjoy yourself :farmer:
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I've only just seen this thread - still catching up after jetlag from the trip up north and back!
Had a fabulous time, despite the weather. All the staff were great - very helpful and so friendly. They could teach the Royal Welsh people a thing or two!
Managed to park okay, but was a bit hairy getting out to go home on Wednesday. And the goat people didn't help by loading up their trailers and then buggering off for two hours for lunch, blocking the way for numerous exhibitors in the process!
Showing pigs was okay the first day, but by Wednesday (when the breed champs went in for the championships) it was a nightmare getting the pigs from A to B. Didn't help that the January-born pigs were penned in the furthest pens from the ring. Decided not to bother with the qualifier for Young Pig of the Year, even though two had qualified. It would have been impossible getting them across the long stretch from their pens, through thick mud, and into the ring. Not worth the hassle.
Another gripe, if I'm allowed one (!) is that the bars had a 10pm closing time - apparently because of some problems last year. I can understand the thinking behind it, but it just meant that lots of people went back to the trailer park and got hammered and extremely loud until the early hours!
Having said that, I really enjoyed my first experience of Yorkshire Show. Three firsts, two seconds, female champ, reserve male champ, and breed champ made up for all the hassle. Above all, though, I was really impressed with the organisation and the people employed by the show. Couldn't have had a warmer welcome.
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Well done on all of your wins, despite the weather :trophy:
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we went with sheep, got 2x1st, a 2nd third ,2x4th and 5th plus reserve male.the sheep pens were fine but we had horses going in on the wednesday and the horse park was just dreadful. We were not released until 2 pm on the wednesday but couldnt get out of the lorry park until later.
Last year was sooo bad for noise at night. We witnessed a raid on a caravan at 4 am ,lots of big men just dived in and removed people and music machines,this year was so much better, we actually slept.
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Glad to hear you all got a warm Yorkshire welcome. The Yorkshire show is the time of year when i get to meet up with piggy people from far and wide that under normal cuircumstances i wouldn't get to meet, because of other committments i wasn't going this time until the Thursday but unfortunately the weather intervened and that as they say is history, so sorry to have missed you all, i know i will catch up with some of you at the local shows here in Yorkshire over the summer.
Well done all of you on your rosettes.
All the best and we'll try again next year.
Mandy :pig: