Earlier this year we decided we wouldn't do any shows, so we could have the chance to get away for a holiday. Showing takes up more time than the one day at the showground. There's a lot of preparation in getting the stock to look it's best on Show Day - from haltering and ensuring they will walk quietly round the ring and present them selves well, to clipping and trimming so they look their best. We don't seem to have had much extra free time, but both Strickley families have managed a few days away.
The one exception to the No Show rule is Westmorland County Show, which we have been going to since 1875. Last year was a bit complicated as James took two cows to the Dairy Event in the same week, and travelled straight from the NEC to the Westmorland Show. This year ought to have been easier with no showing, but James has been asked to judge at the Dairy Event so will be away for as long as last year. At least he won't have to worry about transporting any stock. He has been asked to send a photo of him looking smart (for the programme/catalogue?) and after ferreting about, this is what we found. So if you're there, you'll know who to look for.
So the plan is:
This morning - finish stacking bedding straw onto top of the silage pit
This afternoon - delivery of organic feed straw due,to be unloaded and stacked on top as well
Sunday - Happy Birthday Michelle (a significant birthday!).
Sunday/Monday - Milk Recording (see a future post)
Monday morning - back to school for Michelle.
Monday afternoon - James leaves for the Dairy Event (NEC, Birmingham) in my car.
Tuesday - just another busy day, including baking for the show
Wednesday morning - back to school for Robert and Chris
Wednesday afternoon - Henry and David take all the show stuff to the show field, including the in-calf cows, using the Landrover and a tractor
Wednesday evening - take the milk cows and more feed etc. James arrives back from the NEC in my car. Leave the Landrover James and the cows at the show field and bring my car back to Strickley.
Thursday - very very early start. Milk and feed etc. Go to show as soon as possible
Thursday evening - back from the show. Have a celebratory (or commissary) drink. Fall into bed.
Friday - unload all the show stuff and put away for another year.
Saturday - another early morning start, but this time up to Scotland to catch a ferry. Yes! We're going on holiday.
I may have got this all wrong (probably not listening when I should have been).
The one exception to the No Show rule is Westmorland County Show, which we have been going to since 1875. Last year was a bit complicated as James took two cows to the Dairy Event in the same week, and travelled straight from the NEC to the Westmorland Show. This year ought to have been easier with no showing, but James has been asked to judge at the Dairy Event so will be away for as long as last year. At least he won't have to worry about transporting any stock. He has been asked to send a photo of him looking smart (for the programme/catalogue?) and after ferreting about, this is what we found. So if you're there, you'll know who to look for.
This morning - finish stacking bedding straw onto top of the silage pit
This afternoon - delivery of organic feed straw due,to be unloaded and stacked on top as well
Sunday - Happy Birthday Michelle (a significant birthday!).
Sunday/Monday - Milk Recording (see a future post)
Monday morning - back to school for Michelle.
Monday afternoon - James leaves for the Dairy Event (NEC, Birmingham) in my car.
Tuesday - just another busy day, including baking for the show
Wednesday morning - back to school for Robert and Chris
Wednesday afternoon - Henry and David take all the show stuff to the show field, including the in-calf cows, using the Landrover and a tractor
Wednesday evening - take the milk cows and more feed etc. James arrives back from the NEC in my car. Leave the Landrover James and the cows at the show field and bring my car back to Strickley.
Thursday - very very early start. Milk and feed etc. Go to show as soon as possible
Thursday evening - back from the show. Have a celebratory (or commissary) drink. Fall into bed.
Friday - unload all the show stuff and put away for another year.
Saturday - another early morning start, but this time up to Scotland to catch a ferry. Yes! We're going on holiday.
I may have got this all wrong (probably not listening when I should have been).
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