Romsey Show this year was one of the rainy days in September, luckily all the exhibitors managed to get in and lots of people decided that the rain wasn’t going to put them off, so all was well. The main reason I went, was the fact that my brothers were taking dads old motor bike … More ROMSEY SHOW 2016 ‘Where Town and Country Meet’
Well, we’ve been to, Hampton Court Flower Show, Netley Marsh Steam fair, New Forest Show and The Great Dorset Steam Fair in the last couple of months, BUT……the one we all get really excited about is……. THE…. ‘Godshill Village Produce Show’ The excitement starts to build, we get the show schedule earlier in the year … More The Village Produce Show!
Taskers of Andover is where this little engine was made It takes three days to travel to the ‘Great Dorset’ from Sussex which is where Simon and Nicky live, this year they bought it down a few weeks before, so my brother Shaun helped with the last leg of the journey filling up with water … More ‘Steaming to the Steam Fair’
Well…….We got the truck, lorry and the hitch cart painted, at one point I was painting the lorry in the dark, with a head torch, at 1.30 in the morning, just so the paint would be dry enough before it rained……and it did! all the next day. Always a bit of a worry as the site … More Phewww!……we did it!!!!
When I wrote “Only 19 days to go” on facebook,
I thought Oh no…..
I was going to paint the lorry, the truck, the hitch cart,
make more shelves for the corn flakes and the marmalade,
clean the fridge out ready for the Gin and tonic
sort the harness for the horses and clean it…. … More Only 8 Days till ‘THE GREAT DORSET STEAM FAIR’
‘This is the every day story of country folk’ That may sound a bit cheesy but that’s exactly what this is, sometimes it does get a little like the ‘Archers’ (radio 4 Sunday mornings) I’m not sure who’s character I would be….as yet I’m not a great writer, I write as though I would be talking to you, … More Gosh! you found us!
Hills Corner 