The Fairlie Show: Very "UnPC"

Every now and then you glimpse the old New Zealand! You know the time when kids were not wrapped in cotton wool. Sometimes, just sometimes you see people and organisations who hold to the old ways and buggar the consequences.

Easter Monday means what to the true southerner? It means a trip to the Fairlie show of course. For those have not had the pleasure, Fairlie is a tiny little spot at the entrance to the South Island High Country (on the way to Tekapo) which fills up on Easter Monday.

We headed across the back roads from Hunter, hit the road at Cave and roared through Albury to get the show, a drive that by itself is awesome. The Grand Parade is the highlight and fter this fine posession of champion bulls, horses, tractors and pipe bands and there was a "lolly scramble". I'm almost reluctant to publish this because some PC nut will complain. Lolly scrambles have been banned in our schools for fear the kids might hurt themselves and cause a liability. Like banning bull rush! Madness, parents are even reluctant to have a lolly scramble at a private kids party.

Heres the thing with the Fairlie show lolly scramble.......no one was killed maimed or injured! When they announced it hundreds of scone grabbers vaulted the fence and risked their lives trying to get some lollys. They loved it and this pic I took shows the first wave of partakers.

Good on you Fairlie Show, I hope you continue to have one every year!