Day out, lots of photos.....

It's that time of year again, when the Great Northern Exhibition is on.  The weather was terrible on Friday with rain, and the forecast was iffy for Saturday, so we weren't sure if we would go or not on Saturday.  Anyhow, it turned out to be a stunning day, and quite hot and sunny.  Both dh and I got sun burnt while we were watching the trucks go through the mud bog. 

The first trucks that went through were the smaller ones and they all got stuck at one certain place, so the tractor had to go in and haul them out.

Took a few photos of the trucks lined up ready to go through the mud bog:

This is a type of a Mercedes Benz.

Another Mercedes Benz.  I overheard someone say these vehicles were made for the army, but are no longer made.  It had a lot of gears and was able to go through the mud bog no problem. **Please refer to my brother Nick's comment as he tells us more about this vehicle.  The guy whose conversation I overheard, obviously didn't quite know what he was talking about.**

I never did figure out how the driver got into that truck.  The girl in the photo was probably at least 5' 5".

Another Mercedes Benz, like the other one. Even after going through the mud bog, this truck remained nice and clean.

This truck was either called "Rednecker" or "Redneckin," I can't remember which.

This guy was just covered from head to foot in mud by the time he got to the other end.   I didn't get a photo of him though.

That's him going through the mud bog.

We really enjoyed ourselves, but there were so many wasps around it was awful.  Poor dh got stung by one so his arm is swollen now.

Talked to a farmer for a while regarding the cows that were on show in the ring. Very interesting and the way they pronounce Hereford over here is totally different to the way we pronounce it in Britain.  By the way, the way I pronounce it is hera-fud

Also, saw a sheep sheared and that took around a minute and a half to do that.  The fastest time to shear a single sheep is 45.41 seconds by Dwayne Black (Australia) on the set of Guinness World Records at Seven Network Studios, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on 17 April 2005.





I will post the photos of all the quilts tomorrow, there were some beauties as always.

When we got home I decided to go out in the garden for a while.  Managed to get the grape vine trimmed back for the winter.  Not sure if I did it correctly, but it has two choices, it will either grow next year and I'll have a big crop; or it won't!!!

I also spent an hour and a half trimming all the bank down.  It's much too steep for me to cut with the tractor and even the push lawn mower is hard work.  I managed to get over half done, so will finish it off today.

Good day and a productive day for us.

Great Northern Exhibition.....(photo heavy)

Dh managed to get home early from work on Saturday so we went to The Great Northern Exhibition, and we both said afterwards what a great time we had.  The only thing that spoiled our day was the weather, as it kept raining, mind you we were dressed for the weather with both of us wearing coats.

We saw a lot of neat things, and I learned a few new things.  I now know more about fan tailed pigeons than I thought I would ever need to know!!  My total knowledge about pigeons is that Jack Duckworth keeps them on Coronation Street!!  It turns out these pigeons are the equivalent to poodles in the dog world; pretty to look at but pretty useless otherwise!!

I took a pile of photos, so I am going to have to split them up over a few days so I don't bore the heck out of you.

One of the things we enjoyed a lot was the mud bog.  I have never seen this before, and was lucky enough to stand next to a guy who was really into it, and explained the in's and out's of it all.

What amazed me was some of these vehicles going through the bog were people's regular on road vehicles.  There was a mobile truck wash there that could if they wanted wash them down.

 This was a pretty neat looking vehicle.  The guy driving it was covered head to foot in mud; all I could think was his poor wife/girlfriend/mother who has to do the laundry!

 They went so fast that the mud just flew everywhere.

 This truck was driven by a young girl and she was really good.

 This was someones regular truck, as it had licence plates on it.

 Here are the tractors putting more mud in the bog to make it harder to get through.

 This was really funny, as one truck got stuck, so the big tractor went in to pull it out with the chains.  Then the tractor got stuck, so now we have a truck and a tractor in there, so they had to put chains on another tractor to pull them both out.  Meanwhile some guys were shouting at the tractor driver to use "something differential???"  I think that was the word, it meant nothing to me, but the gist of it all they all thought the tractor driver was useless!!

 Just another photo of another truck, which by the way, next time we saw it did not look like this, it was covered head to foot in mud. 

If I ever see an advert for this sort of event, I will definitely go, as I thoroughly enjoyed it.  They had a truck pull later on at 5pm, but it was cold and we were not keen on getting wet AGAIN.  However I think next year if it's warmer we will stay for that.

I also said to dh he would have loved doing this if he was 30 years younger, as I would.  Now that we are "old farts" watching is the best thing for us!!!