Ragley hall

[.357shooter 1,357]

Will not be going now or ever again.trying to charge £40 to walk ary a field FFS.

[jukel123 9,276]

But think what you'll be  missing. A hot day, with thousands of people shuffling along a tiny corridor of grass  basically looking at overpriced field sports goodies in tents.

You'll miss the lads being dragged by their  panting gundogs wearing their green wellies, Barbour  jackets and with their gundog whistles prominently on view around their necks. Some even dress their bored wives in similar garb and drag them along too. You'll miss the leather hat lads fulfilling some fantasy about themselves, the lurcher lads and the  terrier lads with their frustrated demented terriers screaming" come and have a go if you think you're f****n hard enough" at every passing dog. The lurcher and terrier guys will be dressed in camo and showing off their freshly polished rip _off_ price  hunting boots. Don't forget the queues for ice cream,wild boar sarnies and venison burgers...all charged at mortgage prices.

There will be some lad showing off ferrets and talking very earnestly about how to work them. I thought you just stuck em down a hole. But apparently there's loads I'm missing. I must buy one of the dozens of books about  working ferrets and educate myself.

Then there's the competition boys. Expressions deadly serious whilst  competing to shoot more clays than the next fella or whipping their fly line into a frenzy trying to cast further and more accurately than the other guy.

Don't forget the beer tent with groups of guys telling never ending macho stories about themselves. Nobody listening, everybody broadcasting.

Bah,  humbug. Cynicism rules!  

Stay f****n home and buy your stuff cheaper on the Internet,  skip the fashion show and the  hours spent queuing in your car. You will save a day you would  never get back otherwise.

Edited July 17 by jukel123

[TRUEBRIT66 2,060]

12 minutes ago, jukel123 said:

But think what you'll be  missing. A hot day, with thousands of people shuffling along a tiny corridor of grass  basically looking at overpriced field sports goodies in tents.

You'll miss the lads being dragged by their  panting gundogs wearing their green wellies, Barbour  jackets and with their gundog whistles prominently on view around their necks. Some even dress their bored wives in similar garb and drag them along too. You'll miss the leather hat lads fulfilling some fantasy about themselves, the lurcher lads and the demented  terrier lads dressed in camo and showing off their hunting boots. Don't forget the queues for ice cream,wild boar sarnies and venison burgers...all charged at mortgage prices.

There will be some lad showing off ferrets and talking very earnestly about how to work them. I thought you just stuck em down a hole. But apparently there's loads I'm missing. I must buy one of the dozens of books about  working ferrets and educate myself.

Then there's the competition boys. Expressions deadly serious whilst  competing to shoot more clays than the next fella or whipping their fly line into a frenzy trying to cast further and more accurately than the other guy.

Don't forget the beer tent with groups of guys telling never ending macho stories about themselves. Nobody listening, everybody broadcasting.

Bah,  humbug. Cynicism rules!  

Stay f****n home and buy your stuff cheaper on the Internet,  skip the fashion show and the  hours spent queuing in your car. You will save a day you'll never get back otherwise.

I know your post is very tongue in cheek but the less these shows stay going the quicker field sports will die out. I don't go to any now but think they are still a good thing for the "general public" to get an insight into what is a dying pastime.  

On a personal note I wear a flat cap, tattersall shirt and Gillet most of the time and dont own a farm even though I've been called a phoney farmer on occasions and when Im fishing I look like a extra from Duck Dynasty at times     

[FLATTOP 5,110]

20 minutes ago, jukel123 said:

But think what you'll be  missing. A hot day, with thousands of people shuffling along a tiny corridor of grass  basically looking at overpriced field sports goodies in tents.

You'll miss the lads being dragged by their  panting gundogs wearing their green wellies, Barbour  jackets and with their gundog whistles prominently on view around their necks. Some even dress their bored wives in similar garb and drag them along too. You'll miss the leather hat lads fulfilling some fantasy about themselves, the lurcher lads and the  terrier lads with their frustrated demented terriers screaming" come and have a go if you think you're f****n hard enough" at every passing dog. The lurcher and terrier guys will be dressed in camo and showing off their freshly polished rip _off_ price  hunting boots. Don't forget the queues for ice cream,wild boar sarnies and venison burgers...all charged at mortgage prices.

There will be some lad showing off ferrets and talking very earnestly about how to work them. I thought you just stuck em down a hole. But apparently there's loads I'm missing. I must buy one of the dozens of books about  working ferrets and educate myself.

Then there's the competition boys. Expressions deadly serious whilst  competing to shoot more clays than the next fella or whipping their fly line into a frenzy trying to cast further and more accurately than the other guy.

Don't forget the beer tent with groups of guys telling never ending macho stories about themselves. Nobody listening, everybody broadcasting.

Bah,  humbug. Cynicism rules!  

Stay f****n home and buy your stuff cheaper on the Internet,  skip the fashion show and the  hours spent queuing in your car. You will save a day you would  never get back otherwise.

You forgot Sheep Shearing lol …….

[jukel123 9,276]

6 minutes ago, FLATTOP said:

You forgot Sheep Shearing lol …….

I thought that exhibition was strictly for the Welsh lads so just respected their privacy.

[jukel123 9,276]

16 minutes ago, TRUEBRIT66 said:

I know your post is very tongue in cheek but the less these shows stay going the quicker field sports will die out. I don't go to any now but think they are still a good thing for the "general public" to get an insight into what is a dying pastime.  

On a personal note I wear a flat cap, tattersall shirt and Gillet most of the time and dont own a farm even though I've been called a phoney farmer on occasions and when Im fishing I look like a extra from Duck Dynasty at times     

I think we're all a bit guilty of the countryman look at times. Luckily , I've got a missus who keeps me grounded with her vicious ,critical remarks like "who the f**k do you think you're supposed to be? Etc etc.

But I've never quite 'got' uniforms for sports...the tennis look, the cricket look and the golf look. People obviously feel a need to belong. Nothing wrong with it, just a bit weird.

Ex army is the way to go. Or as  my son says: ffs dad, you look like Compo.

Edited July 17 by jukel123

[FLATTOP 5,110]

1 hour ago, jukel123 said:

I thought that exhibition was strictly for the Welsh lads so just respected their privacy.

Great comeback lol  

[mel b 3,527]

5 hours ago, TRUEBRIT66 said:

I know your post is very tongue in cheek but the less these shows stay going the quicker field sports will die out. I don't go to any now but think they are still a good thing for the "general public" to get an insight into what is a dying pastime.  

On a personal note I wear a flat cap, tattersall shirt and Gillet most of the time and dont own a farm even though I've been called a phoney farmer on occasions and when Im fishing I look like a extra from Duck Dynasty at times     

You're lucky . I normally get told that I look like toad of toad hall

[waltjnr 7,912]

13 minutes ago, mel b said:

You're lucky . I normally get told that I look like toad of toad hall

My Mrs usually says Rambo in First Blood! Got to love the RNIB 

[Igz 1,645]

It's a much better place in the hours of darkness 

[dodger 3,587]

On 17/07/2025 at 11:21, jukel123 said:

But think what you'll be  missing. A hot day, with thousands of people shuffling along a tiny corridor of grass  basically looking at overpriced field sports goodies in tents.

You'll miss the lads being dragged by their  panting gundogs wearing their green wellies, Barbour  jackets and with their gundog whistles prominently on view around their necks. Some even dress their bored wives in similar garb and drag them along too. You'll miss the leather hat lads fulfilling some fantasy about themselves, the lurcher lads and the  terrier lads with their frustrated demented terriers screaming" come and have a go if you think you're f****n hard enough" at every passing dog. The lurcher and terrier guys will be dressed in camo and showing off their freshly polished rip _off_ price  hunting boots. Don't forget the queues for ice cream,wild boar sarnies and venison burgers...all charged at mortgage prices.

There will be some lad showing off ferrets and talking very earnestly about how to work them. I thought you just stuck em down a hole. But apparently there's loads I'm missing. I must buy one of the dozens of books about  working ferrets and educate myself.

Then there's the competition boys. Expressions deadly serious whilst  competing to shoot more clays than the next fella or whipping their fly line into a frenzy trying to cast further and more accurately than the other guy.

Don't forget the beer tent with groups of guys telling never ending macho stories about themselves. Nobody listening, everybody broadcasting.

Bah,  humbug. Cynicism rules!  

Stay f****n home and buy your stuff cheaper on the Internet,  skip the fashion show and the  hours spent queuing in your car. You will save a day you would  never get back otherwise.

Brilliant lol

[dodger 3,587]

On 17/07/2025 at 11:41, TRUEBRIT66 said:

I know your post is very tongue in cheek but the less these shows stay going the quicker field sports will die out. I don't go to any now but think they are still a good thing for the "general public" to get an insight into what is a dying pastime.  

On a personal note I wear a flat cap, tattersall shirt and Gillet most of the time and dont own a farm even though I've been called a phoney farmer on occasions and when Im fishing I look like a extra from Duck Dynasty at times     

Agree with you it's a shame these game fairs have taken the piss tho in recent years there for the upper-class to middle class now 

[chartpolski 27,468]

Just talking to my pal who’s just got back.

£85 for a three day pass, he said smaller than usual and VERY expensive.

Loads of Pikies there, he’s a p***y so I guess he “avoided” paying the £85 ! LOL !

Cheers.

[poxon 5,913]

I ain’t been to a country show in a while they seem to be over priced shit now days nothing country about them just load of Asian food vans and tat stools last show I visited was the Thame country show I decided maybe I shouldn’t write a country show now and again off so I took my tribe for a day out had my pants pulled down to enter had my pants pulled down at the ice cream truck walked the circuit wasn’t that impressed thought right let’s go an watch some lure racing that didn’t impress me either seeing dogs running hard baked ground blowing out there asses said to my lads what do you think my kids are brutally honest they said it’s boring it’s not for us dad they would of rather went for a walk and a picnic down the woods 

[WILF 49,667]

On 17/07/2025 at 11:21, jukel123 said:

But think what you'll be  missing. A hot day, with thousands of people shuffling along a tiny corridor of grass  basically looking at overpriced field sports goodies in tents.

You'll miss the lads being dragged by their  panting gundogs wearing their green wellies, Barbour  jackets and with their gundog whistles prominently on view around their necks. Some even dress their bored wives in similar garb and drag them along too. You'll miss the leather hat lads fulfilling some fantasy about themselves, the lurcher lads and the  terrier lads with their frustrated demented terriers screaming" come and have a go if you think you're f****n hard enough" at every passing dog. The lurcher and terrier guys will be dressed in camo and showing off their freshly polished rip _off_ price  hunting boots. Don't forget the queues for ice cream,wild boar sarnies and venison burgers...all charged at mortgage prices.

There will be some lad showing off ferrets and talking very earnestly about how to work them. I thought you just stuck em down a hole. But apparently there's loads I'm missing. I must buy one of the dozens of books about  working ferrets and educate myself.

Then there's the competition boys. Expressions deadly serious whilst  competing to shoot more clays than the next fella or whipping their fly line into a frenzy trying to cast further and more accurately than the other guy.

Don't forget the beer tent with groups of guys telling never ending macho stories about themselves. Nobody listening, everybody broadcasting.

Bah,  humbug. Cynicism rules!  

Stay f****n home and buy your stuff cheaper on the Internet,  skip the fashion show and the  hours spent queuing in your car. You will save a day you would  never get back otherwise.

You forgot the CA and BASC stalls telling you how much they are fighting for you as they cave into another government ban on something and charge you £60 for the privilege!