Well, here we are on Good Friday and NOT in York for the second year in a row.
So let’s remember those good times. All the doors of the Knavesmire Stand open as exhibitors unload their stands, with a cold wind whistling across the Racecourse and straight through the building.
Meanwhile the car park crew is attempting the almost impossible task of trying to squeeze everybody’s vehicles onto the hard standing at the rear of the building.
Don’t forget the one or two visitors who turn up every year (not the same one or two) expecting the Show to be open on Friday.
The tea room is in full steam, generating an endless supply of tea and coffee.
The lunchtime fish and chips arrive (usually with a surplus of chips, enough to last the entire weekend) just as our good friends from Warley turn up with 2 van loads of barriers, and probably a layout or two as well.
And then the phone calls start, from those exhibitors arriving late, stuck in a bank holiday traffic jam.
Of course, it will all be alright by 10am on Saturday!
Happy Days! Here’s hoping we will be all in a position to do it for real by Easter 2022 (16/17/18 April).