SUMMER IS COMING, and that can only mean one thing around the country:
The agricultural shows are starting up. Where you will definitely see:
1. Preparation of cattle backstage hitting professional levels
2. Before they get inspected outside for the competition
3. And eventually, the winners being declared in all their glory later in the afternoon
4. Rosettes played a big part in the day out, of course
5. Whether it was for award-winning vegetables
6. Or the bake-off, around long before the TV show was even a thing
7. The raffle was an important part of the weekend too – always featuring livestock as a prize
8. You’d watch on in wonder as competitions like sheaf throwing took place in front of you
9. But everyone could get involved in the annual tug of war competition
You didn’t need sheaf-throwing skills to join in.
10. There was always excellent farm puns
11. And events you’d convince your friends to enter “for the craic”
12. Wonderfully constructed gag bales were something to look forward to
13. As were the countless activites that your parents would tell you “not to go near”
14. You went along for the animals and stayed for the craic <3
