Thame Country Fair

[bruno22rf]

I cannot help but wonder who , in gods name, ever goes twice to a "show" like this? Initial impressions were not good when we heard a young lady ask a parking goon if she could park closer to the entrance because her 90 year old mother could not walk very far on uneven ground-she was dismissed with a curt wave indicating the bottom of the field ( a good 500 yards walk). A steely glance from the other half prevented me "having a word" with the idiot. We were then robbed of £12 each that enabled us to wonder around the showground trying to find something remotely interesting to look at. The ubiquitous airgun range was next to a group of American civil war re-enactors (relevance to an English country show?) and the rest was an assortment of opportunities to waste your money on more carp than you could shake a stick at. Downtrodden and depressed we headed for a watering hole that was advertising traditional cask ales and country ciders-a pint of warm watery tasting cider, 2 bottles of water and a can of coke was £10-I was so angry that I took the cider back and demanded a refund (I also noted that NO prices were being displayed)-we could have bought a cup of coffee but £3.50 for instant seemed to add insult to injury-besides the queue to pay £7 for a pork roll was in our way. We stayed about an hour and the trip for 4 adults and 2 kids set me back £66 inc drinks-what an absolute crock of old dog *****. P.S. no clay shooting-at a country fair???

[PhilR]

Never been, got forewarned some years ago by fellow beaters at a nearby game shoot to Thame that it was a waste of money. Seems they were right.

[Guest rimotu66]

And everything is so much better darn sarf