GYS (Great Yorkshire Show)

The Royal Show has ceased but the Great York­shire goes on and on — and seems to have more and more for every­one.  We always say that to really under­stand rural shows you need to go to the Great York­shire and also one of the really small ones — Farndale in York­shire or Hay­field in Derby­shire.  The GYS is enorm­ous — you can’t exper­i­ence it all in a day — even if you miss out the entire farm machinery sec­tion, and the car sales­men, and the kit­chen gad­gets and 90% of the cloth­ing stalls.  Maybe when I retire I’ll get a 3 day ticket and really linger around the forestry, and the eco-bits, and the side rings for cattle, sheep and pig judging, and really sample all the free good­ies in the food tents and see all the show-jumping.