There is something about Royal Show week that sets me on edge with an eye constantly looking for disasters, actual or impending, that will stop my visit. With fuel costs for the trip at around £50 plus tickets and food, there is never any change from £100 and these days this is not that easy to find. At this time of the year even a day away seems to encourage a mini cataclysm. So it would have been this year had not a spanner in the works saved the day as I'll explain in a moment.
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