Last routine day for a while

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The sun is shining and it's already 20 degrees (in the unshuttered glare of our weather station) , but there's no time to sit around relaxing. Tomorrow James heads off to the NEC with Annabella and Athena. The Dairy Event has moved from Stoneleigh to the NEC (and it's also changed the date, which just adds a bit more logistical pressure onto us). He has to arrive on Sunday and will spend Monday preparing the girls for their big day. Judging is on Tuesday, and late afternoon on Wednesday he can leave and head north. But not quite to home. Thursday is our big local show and James and cows will be joining up with the rest of our entries in the new big cattle tent, before settling down as well as he can for the night.

So, if you're in Birmingham on Tuesday/Wednesday or Crooklands on Thursday, come along and see us.

And, as a bit of an aside, I can't quite visualise cows at the NEC. I've only been twice and neither times involved anything remotely agricultural.

In 1984 we went to a Queen concert, and the wonders of the Internet brought up this link to it. I know that given 5 minutes I could put my hand on our programme and tickets - just like those on the web page.

We were there again in 1995 for a motor show. In a previous life I was a navigator in Historic Rallies (1966 Mini Cooper) and that year we won our class in the "Demon Tweeks Classic - Historic Rally Championship" and part of the prize was a ticket to the motor show (I can't remember the proper name, but it was all to do with motorsport), a posh dinner in a posh hotel (where we were actually in the same room as the whole McCrae clan), and small cup (that sits between the cattle ones). I can't find any relevant links, but one day I'll post some photos.