We hadn’t planned on going to the Bakewell Show but as one of our cleaners had some spare tickets we decided we would go. One departure first thing at our Bolehill Cottages near Bakewell (see here). The forecast had been for a warm and sunny day with isolated showers although luckily we didn’t see any. Chris spent the morning watering plants and weeding whilst I did some house keeping duties and a number of emails. After an early lunch we drove down to Bakewell and parked at Yeld Road a few minutes walk from the town centre. No parking was possible in the car parks in the centre as these were being used for Coach drop off and pick up points and was manned by marshals. We entered the Show ground from Smiths Island Car Park and first of all headed for the WI tent to compare our entry with the others. From here we made our way round the show ground that extends to 30 acres. We had a look at the dog and equine competitions that were still taking place and we always enjoy the produce tents with the flowers and vegetables. In the food tent it was nice to see that our local butchers had done well in the competitions. The cattle seemed to have gone and by the time we got back to the sheep they were also on their way home. The benefit of going later on the second day is that by 4.30 food vendors start reducing the prices of stock. Two cupcakes for £1 and three pork pies with four bags of scratchings for £10 were my bargains of the day! We also got Blue a new lead. It was still warm when we got home but it had clouded up again so although I hoped we would be able to eat outside it was back indoors for dinner.