Glen Luce Tractors!!

 On the recommendation of our woodman friend we drove down to Glen Luce for an annual tractor show....the above is a report on their Spring rally.

We arrived at 12.30...a little later than planned (it had started at 11) on a bright hot sunny day..and the village street was lined the full length one side with parked cars( and no parking cones on the other side).

Luckily we found a space as we retraced our way through, with only a quarter mile to walk to the showground, a memorial park/ playing field.

It was full! Row upon row of tractors, a small arena, a food tent, crafts and information and selling stalls.

And transport for those from further away

All colours, sizes and ages of tractors...mostly working...when the tractor run left the field for half an hour, there were hardly any left !

Pirate had a grand time as he started working with a Standard Fordson at age 9...not ideal, but he was there and the work needed done!

And of course the stationary engines, putt-putting away! I prefer those that are doing something!

Our woodman friend had a stall there...all his wooden mushrooms had sold in ten minutes and the chopping boards were selling steadily..an imaginative use of offcuts, and a business line for his daughter to join in on too.

A beautiful piece of elm wood, similar to the ones he supplied for Pirate's bench.

Then back down the high street after a picnic lunch under the trees surrounding the showfield.

neighbourly

The weekend's garden job...I weeded, he washed...

This will pay for some travels....
We've been bartering too, old henhouse shed walls for metal roof sheeting...

his shed has a more weatherproof roof..

and the chooks over the road have a new summerhouse!!

Pirate on Tractor

 This is the model he served his apprenticeship on, in a garage in Ashford, Kent,65 years ago....

Paddy over the road has sold his trol/trailer..so how else does the buyer collect?!

and brings a friend as well....

and yet more snow

It sounds like we'll be having a week's worth of snow at least, with more warnings coming our way from the Met Office.
There is plenty to do indoors and we can do our best to walk in between showers.
Only the postlady had been when we started . The car was abandoned there late last night.

 Snowman and his dog...

 We had a slight thaw this morning, so the walk was slushy in the village. As we headed out of the village at 2pm, the temperature dropped.

 You can see the next hail cloud...the tail of it caught us a quarter mile later

 We have a model of this on the mantelpiece..the tractor that the Pirate started his tractor life on, age 9...(but not this one!)
These are in the sheds at a local farm where there used to also be a corn mill

 and back up the hill to home.