Sunday, May 22, 2005

Devon county show

On Saturday we went to Devon County show http://www.devoncountyshow.co.uk/home.asp . Last year Devon got summer 3 month early and in May we were in the middle of a very hot dry spring. This year we were back to cold and wet again.




Typical grey day - view from the Ferris wheel. The view is about half the showground.









We always go visit the sheep - our favourite part. Last year we heard a massive great ram *say* "Baa", this year they were all mahahah-ing again.

Anyway Lizzie found one that wagged its tail if you rubbed its head.


This year as I have been having a lot of trouble from what may or may not be ME/CFS or even MS (We will find out eventually), I hired a mobility scooter from shopmobility. It made the day completely enjoyable - I even raced Lizzie to the strawberry stand. The only difficulty came when we tried to watch a 'robot' who was being wheeled around by a man in a "Men-in-black" outfit (black suit, black tie, dark glasses). I couldn't get a good look. But then the Robot abruptly got off his Trolly and charged into the audience - since I forgot how to reverse I got to be front of audience view for the next few minutes.



He serenaded ladies in the audience by miming to song clips - and did the whole of wonderful world by lois armstrong.















Lizzie found a great bouncy slide and managed to get at least 10 goes for her £1:50 - when she was supposed to have 5!, in this picture she'd just done a complete flip.