I love a country show! Bring on the oddly shaped vegetables.

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It's show time round our way. I know tgey showcase all the best our farms produce, but it's the frankly weird and bonkers events I love , the ferret racing, huge vegetables, fancy poultry. It's just so quintessentially British.(in a lovely village green preservation society way). Come and share your local events. We need something warm and comforting.

Yes, have been to a couple of county shows in Devon, when friends still lived there. A brilliant day out.

It was a summer village fair in Devon that particularly made me think 'quintessentially English' though. Coconut shy etc. - dh won a lot and gave most back!

But it was when we were watching the Morris Dancers that sticks most in my head. I was just thinking that the scene was straight out of Midsomer Murders - any minute someone was going to be shot with a crossbow from behind the tea tent.

Said as much to dh, whereupon the woman next to me said she'd just been thinking exactly the same, and we all cracked up.
I do love Morris Dancers though!

Ooh yes we have a good one round here. The jam competition is heavy stuff, people bring their jars in lock boxes

I spent a lot of my childhood at agricultural shows of all sizes - from local goat club ones held in someones garden to the Royal Show. In those days you entered on paper and we'd get show schedules through the post which listed all the classes. Much as I love the proper classes, my highlight was, and is still, the craft and food ones with the 'rock buns made to the given recipe, no larger than 10cm, presented on a doily' and flower arrangement on the theme of psychology. As we'd often be on the showground for the whole weekend for larger shows (the goats compete on how much milk they can make so you have to milk on site as well as their showring time) I had plenty of time to wander round and contemplate.

We have miniature rooms (often with a theme or for a character). Watched the egg judging once, (I know, rock n roll) they had micrometers measuring the size of yolks and we were asked to leave the leek tent because of our giggles. (Leeks are taken very seriously around here)

I used to have great fun competing and looking round these as a kid. Miniature gardens with moss for the 'lawn', collecting those little round balls from the conifers and neatly placing them in rows for the 'cabbage patch'. My dad and uncle were competitive veg growers and it was always amusing watching them polish their tomatoes and try to find the most uniform vegetables to make their exhibit!

Londoner here. I've wanted to go to one of these things for ages! We do have some country-style shows here but it's clearly not the same.

@tectonicplates it is worth booking an Airbnb and making a weekend out of it. Honestly, some of the best fun I’ve ever had has been looking at fancy chickens ready for their medals!