Broughton Hall Game Fair 2004 Managed a day off yesterday along with Mrs YS, we had a wonderful day out, off to Broughton Hall in the morning int he beautiful Yorkshire sunshine, walked around the game fair for half the day, then went to see Shrek 2 in the evening. Action from the BASC Gun Dog Scurry as the highly trained working gun dogs retrieve dead birds after shooting. The nice folks at the archery centre let me loose with a bow and arrows (Yorkshiresoul pictured wearing a rather nice new hat), I do like these game fairs, they seem very keen to press lethal weapons into my hands, shotguns last year, hunting bows this year. The result of my three shots was, one miss, one glancing blow but the third one was a heart shot! Bring me that deers head. A very old, and very nice, Rolls Royce at the classic cars display, alongside the older cars were at least two Rovers that my dad used to drive. Up at the shooting, the machine in the foreground throws out the clays for the shooters to hit, this is a clay rabbit thrower, the disks run along the ground the simulate a running rabbit, when the shooter hits the 'rabbit' a second machine off to his left throws out an airborne 'pheasant' clay. The rabbit runs....... ....but doesn't get away. It might be a bit hard to see, but in the very centre of the picture you can see a cloud of clay shards as the shooter hits the 'rabbit', at the back right is an airborne clay thrower. It's not all hunting, shooting and fishing though. Here is a splendid bit of Yorkshire insanity..........terrier racing, the rabbit zips past ona rope, the terriers are let loose, some follow the rabbit, some run strait back to their owners, some remain in the hutch, one or two ran out of the arena and presumably were never seen again. The traditional aftermath of a terrier race, small children chasing after excited dogs, this usually lasts four or five times longer than the race itself. There was some very good humoured Tyke commentary going on as well.......... "It's a brown dog from a brown dog from a brown dog, you'd have thought they could have mixed the bloody colours up so I could tell one dog from another" The Birdman Challenge, £1000 and a barrel of ale to the first person to fly across the river, this was the first valiant, brave and wet effort. Honestly, I think the wings held him back, he'd have jumped further without the drag. Nice try little man. The bi-plane, hang on lads, one of your team appears to have fallen off, and he's carrying the wing! The Rocketman prepares to use him home made jet pack to fly across the river. Oh dear, send for the fire brigade. Yorkshiresoul, in fashionable new hat, braves the Cave and Fell Rescue teams rope bridge, much of the proceeds of the daywas for the rescue teams. A really big chicken, Shrek was great too.