Honley Show

Cockerel
Cockerel

Off to Holmfirth for the weekend. Good journey up, under 3 hours despite missing the junction. Came in past Yorkshire sculpture park which is always good to visit.

On Saturday went to Honley show. Great weather and got there via the little backroads as you can see the showground from Kev n Rons. Luckily they had got prepaid tickets as people had to queue for ages to pay. Arrived for the bike display but their slot had been moved so watched the bird man instead. Saw the sheep, tractors and stationary engines, both Ben and Hayleigh and Bruce were allowed by a kind man to sit on a tractor. Then a picnic lunch before carefully scrutinising numerous chickens, ducks (no Aylesbury), rabbits and mice. There were also guinea pigs which seemed to be very en vogue with the gay fraternity.

Fancy machine

Ron went to put in an hour of selling at her NCT cake stall. We had tried some earlier, just for moral support obviously, and can say they were excellent. Then we had some fab local Yorkshire ice cream, which was well worth the long queue. Ben and Hayleigh went on the little train, then a tricky decision had to made, what should be the last treat? Ben chose the bouncy castle whilst Hayleigh and Bruce decided on the roundabout. Then it was back to the car via the honey stall.

Surreally a childrens firemans helmet flew over a wall on the way back to the car and could not find the owner, so we took that home too. Kev and Ron cooked a great curry which we ate outside and was a perfect end to the day.