Trying to strike the right balance with this one, so let's just put it out there.
Might be opening a can of worms but here goes:
This is an attempt [maybe not a good one] to respond to common remarks this time of year along the lines of "why go up to the steam fair when you can see it all for free at Eli's?"
Ok, but it's hardly the same thing is it?
For anyone new to the area - or the "no never been and don't intend to" brigade - they work hard to put on a large annual event up on the field there at Ham and it's not all about steam and vintage folks if that's not your thing.
[Why wouldn't it be? What's wrong with you? 😂]
It's rather more than that.....
There's plenty more to see and 'kids go free!' according to the posters around town.
You could even do both. Maybe the showground first, Eli's for the Saturday tea time run and back up to Ham for the Saturday night dancing or maybe go up and take a look on Sunday?
Either way, let's try to support a big decades-old event right here on our doorsteps.
Yes the annual arrival of steam engines [and the usual eight hundred tractors] at the Rose & Crown is a great spectacle but it and what happens up the showground all weekend are two entirely different things.
Whatever you choose to do, enjoy your weekend folks!
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[can of worms well and truly open]
