The Great Yorkshire Show 2017

We love going to a show. From the smallest village show, to the greatest of them all  The Great Yorkshire Show in Harrogate. The Gentleman Farmer and I have been several times, and always find something new to look at. We aim to arrive soon after the gates open, and leave as late as we can, but TGYS always leaves us wanting more. This year, we took MasterW with us. Sadly, we picked the only wet day of the week, but there was plenty to see.

We started off with a bit of stock-picking. I had my eye on this saddleback from the start, and she won best of breed. 

Then on to the sheep. We watched this Ryeland being trimmed and primped. 

This one's a Teeswater, which is our local sheep. You may have met our neighbours' tup, Rufus; he's a Teeswater. 

Welcome

We discovered early on that our experience of books as children had been very different. Libby loved fiction - Enid Blyton, Edward Lear, AA Milne, Lewis Carroll. Simon, on the other hand, learnt to read with books about aircraft, ships and tanks.


The books we both remembered reading, were the Ladybird series, and in particular the Ladybird Book of the Farm. We have Libby's copy, published in 1958.

It's a beautiful book, encouraging small children to read using the animals of the farmyard and their young. We planned what we would do, if we could be lucky enough one day to have a farm just like that.

So welcome to our version of the Ladybird Farm. We hope you will enjoy the Tales we have to share