Malvern Country & Western Show
Looking down from the Malvern Hills, the highest point being 425 metres above sea level, it is said that you can see parts of 13 counties. The hills form a spectacular back drop to the Three Counties Showground where Warners delivered this years Country and Western Motorhome Show. For Gillian & I, it is less than 60 miles and about 75 minutes’ drive, in good traffic conditions and is one of our favourite places to go in our motorhome. We had a friend from Liverpool stay over on Wednesday night and she left lunchtime Thursday. She kindly gave us the heads up that there was an accident on the M5 so we took a more windy route up the B4208 which, thankfully, was very quiet. We arrived later than planned to a warm reception from Trevor and Sheila and parking up was simple.Interesting how things work out, we were in row three, rows 1 & 2 where all but one white cab vans, while rows 3 & 4 where all black cab vans. Seventeen vans were booked in and fifteen made it to site six where the SMOC was established. Anthony & Jane very kindly placed a table outside their motorhome with fresh greenhouse produce for members to share. They even went home and returned restocking the table, thank you.One of our great pastimes is of course watching other people, and even more interesting seeing what they buy at the show. Our list of purchases was as diverse as any, from a garlic grater to a tow car. To be fair the tow car was pre planned but the garlic grater was a spur of the moment impulse buy. I just hope it really does grate the root ginger well when I make our next curry. At a previous Malvern show our impulse buy was a microwave oven, left over stock when Woolworths closed down. That took a bit of puffing to carry it to the van which was parked as far away as possible.Friday was generally a dry day and we all got together at 10:00 for a meet and greet before going off in all directions. In the evening Gillian & I went into Severn Hall and enjoyed the music of Texas Tornados and Rocky Road Ramblers and the obligatory liquid refreshment.Saturday was on the whole a rainy day with people scurrying around between showers. Sunday was again sunny with a few black clouds passing over quite quickly, so sitting out for Sunday morning raffle and coffee was a pleasant and fun event. One significant observation was that many of the motorhomes for sale we very old, normally they are either new or recent trade ins.Sunday morning church service was delivered by Hope Country Gospel Band, a very moving, thought provoking and joyous service. If you would like to hear them, they are on Facebook and YouTube. Sadly, we had to leave late on Sunday to be home in time for Gillian’s Godmothers funeral in Oxford on Monday. We were closely followed by our new Tow Car. Thank you to the organisers for making our weekend run so sweetly and thank you all for your friendship.
Looking down from the Malvern Hills, the highest point being 425 metres above sea level, it is said that you can see parts of 13 counties. The hills form a spectacular back drop to the Three Counties Showground where Warners delivered this years Country and Western Motorhome Show. For Gillian & I, it is less than 60 miles and about 75 minutes’ drive, in good traffic conditions and is one of our favourite places to go in our motorhome. We had a friend from Liverpool stay over on Wednesday night and she left lunchtime Thursday. She kindly gave us the heads up that there was an accident on the M5 so we took a more windy route up the B4208 which, thankfully, was very quiet. We arrived later than planned to a warm reception from Trevor and Sheila and parking up was simple.Interesting how things work out, we were in row three, rows 1 & 2 where all but one white cab vans, while rows 3 & 4 where all black cab vans. Seventeen vans were booked in and fifteen made it to site six where the SMOC was established. Anthony & Jane very kindly placed a table outside their motorhome with fresh greenhouse produce for members to share. They even went home and returned restocking the table, thank you.One of our great pastimes is of course watching other people, and even more interesting seeing what they buy at the show. Our list of purchases was as diverse as any, from a garlic grater to a tow car. To be fair the tow car was pre planned but the garlic grater was a spur of the moment impulse buy. I just hope it really does grate the root ginger well when I make our next curry. At a previous Malvern show our impulse buy was a microwave oven, left over stock when Woolworths closed down. That took a bit of puffing to carry it to the van which was parked as far away as possible.Friday was generally a dry day and we all got together at 10:00 for a meet and greet before going off in all directions. In the evening Gillian & I went into Severn Hall and enjoyed the music of Texas Tornados and Rocky Road Ramblers and the obligatory liquid refreshment.Saturday was on the whole a rainy day with people scurrying around between showers. Sunday was again sunny with a few black clouds passing over quite quickly, so sitting out for Sunday morning raffle and coffee was a pleasant and fun event. One significant observation was that many of the motorhomes for sale we very old, normally they are either new or recent trade ins.Sunday morning church service was delivered by Hope Country Gospel Band, a very moving, thought provoking and joyous service. If you would like to hear them, they are on Facebook and YouTube. Sadly, we had to leave late on Sunday to be home in time for Gillian’s Godmothers funeral in Oxford on Monday. We were closely followed by our new Tow Car. Thank you to the organisers for making our weekend run so sweetly and thank you all for your friendship.