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Title: Westmorland Show
Post by: Fowgill Farm on September 11, 2012, 10:54:54 am
We'll be there on Thursday  :excited: so come and see our antics in the pig show rings. There seems to have been a lot of rain in that neck of the woods in the last few days so  :fc:  for :sunshine:
Mandy  :pig:
 
Title: Re: Westmorland Show
Post by: robert waddell on September 11, 2012, 11:42:18 am
are you not coming on the wed evening  rather than have the stress of traveling trying to get in and unloaded then prepping the pigs      and the beer tent is very good on the wed night :farmer:
Title: Re: Westmorland Show
Post by: Fowgill Farm on September 11, 2012, 11:46:16 am
Yes travelling over wed t-time, stella's in the fridge ready for transfer to cool box! :excited:  Sleep bags & fleecy jarmies ready to go.
Mandy  :pig:
 
Title: Re: Westmorland Show
Post by: jaykay on September 11, 2012, 06:18:09 pm
It's chucked it down for the past couple of days. I'm there but stuck in the schools tent most of the time, supervising kids blowing up the public doing science experiments  ;)
Title: Re: Westmorland Show
Post by: RaisinHall Tamworths on September 11, 2012, 07:06:53 pm
We'll be there with two tamworths. Everyone has farrowed or is due to so not much to show but enjoy Westmorland so having to drag Moanie out  ;D.
Title: Re: Westmorland Show
Post by: RaisinHall Tamworths on September 11, 2012, 07:21:13 pm
See you in the beer tent, I will have to drink to be able to get to sleep in the freezing trailer!
Title: Re: Westmorland Show
Post by: robert waddell on September 11, 2012, 08:33:26 pm
well we are booked into 5 star accommodation      air bed in back of the rangie :roflanim:
Title: Re: Westmorland Show
Post by: RaisinHall Tamworths on September 11, 2012, 08:47:15 pm
Lot warmer and more comfortable than the trailer Robert!
It wont have spiders crawling all over it, hate camping with bug things creeping about  >:( .  That road is noisy too!  Apart from my accomodation I'm looking forward to it  :excited:
Title: Re: Westmorland Show
Post by: robert waddell on September 11, 2012, 08:51:34 pm
park up next the canal it is a lot quieter   might not get there though the show layout has changed :farmer:
Title: Re: Westmorland Show
Post by: jaykay on September 11, 2012, 09:21:43 pm
So when you guys can tear yourselves away from the beer tent, where will you be? Supposing I get some time off for good behaviour (better not be seen in the beer tent, I can see the Westmorland Gazette headlines now  ::))
Title: Re: Westmorland Show
Post by: robert waddell on September 11, 2012, 09:38:32 pm
pig tent :roflanim: will be there most of the day    festivity's are for wed night :farmer:
Title: Re: Westmorland Show
Post by: Fowgill Farm on September 12, 2012, 10:11:33 am
Have you seen the weather forecast for tonite! Brrr 3 degrees! Made sure the campbeds fit in the trailer yesterday afternoon, off to dig out the hottie bottles and the woolly hats!
See you later guys, we'll be leaving home about 5pm when our housesitter arrives after work so it will be nearly dark by time we arrive as reckon it will take about 2 & 1/2hrs with trailer on, depends on wind over the A66.
Mandy  :pig:
Title: Re: Westmorland Show
Post by: Roxy on September 12, 2012, 11:07:21 am
After many years of saying I will go to this show ....I am finally going, and dragging a reluctant OH with me. Would have shown the ponies but the Fell class was way too early for us to feed the livestock and drive two and a half hours to the show.
Will come ready for the weather, with wellies and coats of course :D
Title: Re: Westmorland Show
Post by: Fowgill Farm on September 12, 2012, 11:33:35 am
Look forward to seeing you Roxy, set off as early as you can by all accounts its a right bugger of a show to get in & out of due to narrow roads that why they like all us exhibitors there the night before, the things we do for our art :-J
mandy  :pig:
Title: Re: Westmorland Show
Post by: Roxy on September 12, 2012, 01:56:40 pm
Raining hard here, and windy ....hope husband does not say he ain't going. Rain does not bother me, being out in it all the time. Although lets hope its at leastdry tomorrow. Yes, we will try and get away from the farm early .....used to narrow lanes, but it did say not to follow sat nav, but the direction signs - sat nav must take you somewhere else!!
Will the show go ahead even if it rains hard? Don't want to set off to find out its cancelled.
Will come to the pig tent ....do you have a sign on your pen ....or do we have to guess who is who? :D
Title: Re: Westmorland Show
Post by: jaykay on September 12, 2012, 05:59:48 pm
Yes, the show will go ahead regardless of the weather but in fact, it's forecast to be overcast and maybe a bit mizzly, but not chucking it down (= good weather in Cumbria  ::))

I've just come back from setting up. The show ground is already ankle deep mud in places, I'm sure the carparks will be by the morning.

It's a pain to get in, there's a one-car-wide bridge on the main route in and it can result in queuing onto the M6. Just gotta chill and queue. The road coming in the other way doesn't make a junction with the A590 though it looks like it might, so that's not much help.
Title: Re: Westmorland Show
Post by: sokel on September 12, 2012, 08:57:30 pm
Every time I have gone to wesmorland show the field has been a quagmire and loads of cars end up getting stuck.
We have a frost here tonight already
Title: Re: Westmorland Show
Post by: Roxy on September 12, 2012, 10:36:57 pm
Thank you, Jaykay ....will be in the pick up and will bring wellies of course.  My OH has just said after all the rain we have had today here (torrential) its going to be wet ....and maybe the show would be cancelled?  Then he could go to work, couldn't he? Will not mention the queueing until he gets there, he hates queues ;D
I will go and make his sandwiches now, so he is no doubt that we are in fact going tomorrow ........
 
Title: Re: Westmorland Show
Post by: Sbom on September 12, 2012, 10:40:57 pm
Have fun!
Title: Re: Westmorland Show
Post by: jaykay on September 13, 2012, 06:58:42 am
Just making my flask  ;D (not that there aren't good food and drink stalls but I get an hour off maybe a couple of times during the day and I want to spend it in the animal tents not queuing for coffee).
Title: Re: Westmorland Show
Post by: Fowgill Farm on September 19, 2012, 12:13:30 pm
If you go to the show website theres usually a gallery of pictures, i have some but only of me chasing my pigs round the show ring ;D  will try to put a few on for you.
mandy  :pig:
ps forgot to add that all TAS'ers showing came home with rosettes, yes Moanie the Tamworth struck again, Jodie yea of little faith, she's a lovely girl!  :love: ;D