Yep, there are so many people that settle in areas of similar people to them and try and make it into the country they came from . Many don’t even learn the language ( not a problem in this families case of course being American)
This wonderful video triggered a happy smile and a memory of years ago. We were on a family holiday in rural Wales back in the day. The local milkman called at our holiday rental and in passing urged us not to miss the local agricultural show that was on that day. Of course we had to go. Our children were quite small back then and loved meeting the animals and learned a lot. There was a sheep sheering competition and (allegedly) one of the competitors was the local MP. He did quite well ( in my inexpert view). It strikes me that the current battle for PM would be cleaner, fairer and more informative based on sheep sheering. Thanks for jogging the memory.
You have been introducing me to parts of Britain and its public activities - I love it. Born and raised here but not visited most of the UK so thank you.
I understand the states will always be home but your positivity and infectious posts about our little island are always a joy….blessings to you and your family Mac 🙏
@@melvintyrone2310 Oh Melvin, as long as people, human beings, tend the land and love the land that's fine ! Thank you for your predictions, if any family from any walk of life or any culture decides to make home here and takes part in contributing and continuing looking after the countryside I'm happy 😊
i love a county show, looks like you and your wonderful family had a great day mac, this is the real england that people who only visit london never experience , good luck and god bless you and your family
The Royal Three Counties Show at Malvern in Worcestershire is an annual event held in late June. However, there is also an Autumn Show which this year is on 23, 24 & 25 September.
Intro on a Ferris wheel, good idea. Visiting country shows, best idea! I can't wait to see more. Thanks, Mac and the gang. The New Forest Show is a good one, weather permitting of course....
Hi GUYS, The start of the YORKSHIRE SHOW. began today and its over another three days. Its one of the Biggest shows because Yorkshire is a big county , it covers North and South Yorkshire as well as west and East Yorkshire. It looks like its gonna be good weather for the show and you can go at your own pace.
Hay Mac and family love your videos and family your children are so well behaved and get stuck in and enjoy themselves. The royal bath and west show in Somerset
I love seeing do great things in Britain, you're really making the most of your time and you all have a great sense of adventure. Well done and thank you for sharing.
Ooh, yeah, I never liked blue cheeses when I was a child - too strong and complex a flavour - but I love them now. On an open sandwich of good country bread, with pear, walnuts, watercress and a dressing. Or in a cheesy pasta sauce. But the best is as part of a Christmas cheese board; it's not Christmas without a Stilton!
I've really enjoyed your visits to the county shows. As part of observing some UK culture, have you ever visited a stately home? Museum quality contents in a domestic setting, walking through rooms full of history with a personal connexion to the owners. Lovely grounds and gardens attached. And usually a very nice cafe.😊 Fir example, Blenheim Palace, where Winston Churchill was born; or Chatsworth, and many more. Good luck.
I'm exhausted just watching you do so much walking on a hot day. Glad you had a good day out. :) I used to visit these kind of shows a lot when I was younger. Thank you for letting me re- live them with your lovely family.
Great video, I love the county shows, such a British summer time tradition. Ludlow has great shows and food markets dating back to medieval times, a great place with so much history to explore
Living there, I can only second that. We have possibly the premier UK foodie even on the 2nd weekend of September. Make sure to book sausage trail tickets online (if it's on) before getting to Ludlow. Most of the food festival take place inside the castle but the sausage trail is around the town.
You should try and get to the Royal Welsh Show, held at Llanelwedd, near Builth Wells in mid Wales from Monday 18th to Thursday 21st July. It’s the biggest agricultural show in Europe, and a fantastic day out.
Great video, if you get the chance check out a steam rally, they have restored Traction Engines that were used on farms and the fancier Showmans were used at fairgrounds.
What a fabulous day, and especially since you guys have more understanding of farming than most. We love our local country fair (Frampton-on-Severn) in Gloucestershire, coming up on Sunday 11 September this year. Seeing the livestock, chatting to the farmers. It's a proper traditional show, with loads of working dog events. Our favourite is the terrier racing at the end of the day. Boy, those doggies are fast! Some are at the finish before you can blink but also it's terriers racing in every direction, especially to the sausage tent. My fella won the elver-eating competition (elver = baby eels), the most you can eat in 1 minute.
Deleted my previous comment about lovely American family enjoying an agricultural show because it sounded too patronising. So lovely to see a proper, knowledgeable country family appreciating what's to be seen at a proper agricultural show. xxx (or, as I believe Americans say, xoxox!)
Brings back happy memories of going to country shows as a child with my family, for some reason I remember we always came home with ducks eggs. Nice to see you and your family having such a good time.
My grandfather painted rides for and ran haulage vehicles for fairs and county shows in Kent up to the second world war. The 'big wheels' as they were called then 'Ferris Wheels' were American, were a particular favourite of his along with the merry-go-rounds, for which he painted the top panels and sometimes the horses. .
Looks like a great day, there is the chatsworth country show at the beginning of September, it’s over a few days but you can get tickets for a day. I think blue Stilton should be saved for tiny cheese crackers at Xmas with port! Very brave having it on a burger xx
I love your enthusiasm and that of your family. I once spent an entire summer working with British Sugar at a number of agricultural shows. It was a wonderful experience and an opportunity to see how the countryside works. Try and see the Great Yorkshire show near Harrogate. Have a wonderful summer!
I love county shows Orsett, Tendring, Chatsworth and so on. I was especially impressed with the small livestock shows at Tendring, who knew there were so many types of hens, ducks and pigeons. Good to see you all out having a lovely day
The only county show I've visited was the Cheshire County Show on a school trip when I was 15 . Well worth visiting, I think you'd love it. Not too far from Derbyshire.
You can see everything in those county fairs. There’s usually a home made cake tent - competition is fierce. And a beer tent with home made beers and wines, again, competitions. Stilton - isn’t made in Stilton as it’s not in the right county any more. You’ll often see Stilton and Broccoli soup in the shops. There’s also one with no blue veins, but not so common.
Thanks for this! You've now make me want to head off to a county show. I've only been here 71 years and have never been to one. Those sheep are just drop dead gorgeous. It's great to see an American family enjoying the UK while they're living here. I really must check your early videos to work out your back story. Where the heck, for example, is that lovely house you appear to live in?
As wonderful as ever :) There are two agricultural/food shows in Yorkshire that I can think of straight away, unfortunately one is The Great Yorkshire Show 12th to the 15th of July but it has sold out of tickets unfortunately, the other one is a much smaller affair and is the Wensleydale Show and that is at Layburn in North Yorkshire at the beginning of May and lasts three days. The Great Yorkshire Show is on now but tickets have all gone, next year will see them back again and well worth visiting, the one in Layburn sells a lot of foods which are locally made and absolutely delicious, great video yet again, always a pleasure to see you and your family enjoying such wholesome activities, you never disappoint :)
Stilton is a very strong flavoured cheese. Very nice though. Perfect weather for a County Show. Not so nice when wet and muddy. Well worth looking out for traction engine shows. They have road rollers, farming engines and equipment, all sorts. I believe the Suffolk, Norfolk or Essex shows have them. Great you are enjoying them.
Looks like you had a great day out. There's plenty of agricultural shows around. The Cheshire Show is good, but I think it's just gone and there's the daddy of them all, The Great Yorkshire Show. Plenty in the south too.
The great Dorset steam fair in Blamford forum. National Motor Museum, Beaulieu The tank Museum all great attractions to see. The steam fair would be great for you as it shows off the old steam traction engines used in farming back in the day amazing to see the kids will love it lots to do. I don't know if you have already been there as I have started at the start of your video's
The Royal Cornwall show is HUGE. Spread over 3 days (early June),you see the very best of all livestock as they are transported from all parts of the country. But really,events like the one in this video are commonplace throughout Britain. In Cornwall in September,we have an event called Crantock Bale Push. Where teams of four push these big bales of hay around the village,and on an upward climb,there’s always one who gets “rolled over” It’s now gone international with teams from Belgium,Germany and Switzerland competing this year. It’s a great laugh. So many others I could list.
What a great day out for you and the family Mac , glad the weather was kind to you .We have the Devon county show in Exeter , always a great day out. Great video Mac .
So glad to have you with us here in the UK! Thanks for appreciating what our little island has to offer! I'd recommend heading to the Malverns and Wales - some wonderful shows there: they'd love to see you and I think you'd enjoy what is on offer :-) Ooh - and perhaps consider Folk East in Suffolk in August for another type of tradition!
Look forward to your next visit to a county show. Unfortunately you've missed the The South of England Show at Ardingley in my county of West Sussex for this year.
Stilton Town, where the cheese originated from, is just up the road from you. A small quiet town with a great pub for Stilton related meals. You will have to check it out some time.
I love getting out and about with you and your family, all without leaving my house. You do a great job selling Britain, but you do an even better job of selling Americans. Love to you all.
Great genuine vid, as is your channel. If you liked the show and don't live too far away checkout the Woodland Festival on the same site in Sept. All the best Ian
I would have nominated the Monmouthshire Show, but they aren't running it this year. Last I was there, the highlight was Meirion Owen and his Quack Pack (a squad of sheepdog-guided ducks, with audience participation). Though, there were also dynamic horse riding displays and competitions and the usual agricultural stuff.
Talk about embracing the culture when you move abroad. What an absolutely amazing family.
Amazing family indeed!
I know right it's exceedingly epic
Yep, there are so many people that settle in areas of similar people to them and try and make it into the country they came from .
Many don’t even learn the language ( not a problem in this families case of course being American)
The english are the ethnic minority of their own country by 2066 lol
@@melvintyrone2310 no they won't be
What a wonderful childhood you are providing for your kids.
They will cherish the memories, and flourish as they grow older.
you are doing a good job, glad you are enjoying everything british....we are a proud nation
what a lovely family, your children are a credit to you both.
Love your videos, your a great family man.
Thanks David.
I’ve lived in Derbyshire all my life and I’m ashamed to say I’ve never been to this show 😂 so glad you had a lovely time there 👍
This wonderful video triggered a happy smile and a memory of years ago. We were on a family holiday in rural Wales back in the day. The local milkman called at our holiday rental and in passing urged us not to miss the local agricultural show that was on that day. Of course we had to go. Our children were quite small back then and loved meeting the animals and learned a lot. There was a sheep sheering competition and (allegedly) one of the competitors was the local MP. He did quite well ( in my inexpert view). It strikes me that the current battle for PM would be cleaner, fairer and more informative based on sheep sheering. Thanks for jogging the memory.
Such a wonderful memory... 🙂
You have been introducing me to parts of Britain and its public activities - I love it. Born and raised here but not visited most of the UK so thank you.
Well he
lol you are the ethnic minority of your own country by 2066
I understand the states will always be home but your positivity and infectious posts about our little island are always a joy….blessings to you and your family Mac 🙏
Thanks Andy
you are the demographic minority of your own little island by 2066
@@melvintyrone2310 Sssshhhh hush now.
@@melvintyrone2310 Oh Melvin, as long as people, human beings, tend the land and love the land that's fine ! Thank you for your predictions, if any family from any walk of life or any culture decides to make home here and takes part in contributing and continuing looking after the countryside I'm happy 😊
@@Andy-zm3lp he's got no subscribers and no channels, just a troll with nothing to contribute. X
You honestly seem such a lovely family. Really nice to see you all embracing Derbyshire and being so open to immerse yourself into local life.
Local life is the best life. Thanks.
Always a pleasure watching your videos 😀👍🏾😀👍🏾😀👍🏾
Good on you and you’re family for seeing the real uk😍💪🏼
That’s not the real uk for me London is 😀
i love a county show, looks like you and your wonderful family had a great day mac, this is the real england that people who only visit london never experience , good luck and god bless you and your family
You are welcome to our beautiful country and it's good to see that you appreciate things that sometimes our citizens sometimes forget
The Royal Three Counties Show at Malvern in Worcestershire is an annual event held in late June. However, there is also an Autumn Show which this year is on 23, 24 & 25 September.
Glad to see you all enjoying what the British countryside has to offer. Hope you had a great time. All the best 🇬🇧.
Great to see you all enjoying yourselves Mac but I have a funny feeling dad was enjoying himself the most 😎👍
Thank you for sharing so interesting 😍😍😍❤️❤️❤️❤️👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
Intro on a Ferris wheel, good idea. Visiting country shows, best idea! I can't wait to see more. Thanks, Mac and the gang. The New Forest Show is a good one, weather permitting of course....
Thanks
Hi GUYS, The start of the YORKSHIRE SHOW. began today and its over another three days. Its one of the Biggest shows because Yorkshire is a big county , it covers North and South Yorkshire as well as west and East Yorkshire. It looks like its gonna be good weather for the show and you can go at your own pace.
Another great video Mac, I'm glad you get to do so much with your lovely family in my country. All the very best
And notice the vast amount of police and security that wern't there. Looks like a wonderful family day out
Hay Mac and family love your videos and family your children are so well behaved and get stuck in and enjoy themselves. The royal bath and west show in Somerset
Thanks for the suggestions!
I can confirm that is very good. Also on a smaller scale- the Frome cheese show
Love watching your videos when you involve the family. Your kids are having the best of childhoods.
I love seeing do great things in Britain, you're really making the most of your time and you all have a great sense of adventure. Well done and thank you for sharing.
Ooh, yeah, I never liked blue cheeses when I was a child - too strong and complex a flavour - but I love them now. On an open sandwich of good country bread, with pear, walnuts, watercress and a dressing. Or in a cheesy pasta sauce.
But the best is as part of a Christmas cheese board; it's not Christmas without a Stilton!
Great to see you and your lovely family enjoying the English countryside and shows
So great to see new people coming out to support the rural communities .
Great to see you out and about. Loved seeing the kids petting the animals - soooo sweet. Summer, when we get one, is great, isn't it?
I've really enjoyed your visits to the county shows.
As part of observing some UK culture, have you ever visited a stately home? Museum quality contents in a domestic setting, walking through rooms full of history with a personal connexion to the owners. Lovely grounds and gardens attached. And usually a very nice cafe.😊
Fir example, Blenheim Palace, where Winston Churchill was born; or Chatsworth, and many more. Good luck.
I'm exhausted just watching you do so much walking on a hot day. Glad you had a good day out. :) I used to visit these kind of shows a lot when I was younger. Thank you for letting me re- live them with your lovely family.
Great video, I love the county shows, such a British summer time tradition. Ludlow has great shows and food markets dating back to medieval times, a great place with so much history to explore
Living there, I can only second that. We have possibly the premier UK foodie even on the 2nd weekend of September. Make sure to book sausage trail tickets online (if it's on) before getting to Ludlow. Most of the food festival take place inside the castle but the sausage trail is around the town.
You should try and get to the Royal Welsh Show, held at Llanelwedd, near Builth Wells in mid Wales from Monday 18th to Thursday 21st July. It’s the biggest agricultural show in Europe, and a fantastic day out.
My tummy went watching you on the Ferris wheel, glad you had a lovely time.
I looked and formed a view, let me tell you, what a guy!!.
Great video, if you get the chance check out a steam rally, they have restored Traction Engines that were used on farms and the fancier Showmans were used at fairgrounds.
Excellent content so happy you and your family are embracing the culture. Wonderful family
Thanks for sharing. With that soothing voice, you could seriously make good money on voice overs.
What a fabulous day, and especially since you guys have more understanding of farming than most. We love our local country fair (Frampton-on-Severn) in Gloucestershire, coming up on Sunday 11 September this year. Seeing the livestock, chatting to the farmers. It's a proper traditional show, with loads of working dog events. Our favourite is the terrier racing at the end of the day. Boy, those doggies are fast! Some are at the finish before you can blink but also it's terriers racing in every direction, especially to the sausage tent. My fella won the elver-eating competition (elver = baby eels), the most you can eat in 1 minute.
The Derby show looks really good. Took my niece and nephew to the Kent County Show last weekend. Very busy but loads to see and very educational.
I lived for a while in Yorkshire and enjoyed the country shows there. You looked like you had a great time, and the weather was good, always a bonus.
Deleted my previous comment about lovely American family enjoying an agricultural show because it sounded too patronising. So lovely to see a proper, knowledgeable country family appreciating what's to be seen at a proper agricultural show. xxx (or, as I believe Americans say, xoxox!)
That was awesome I miss little fairs like that seems like not done much where I live in US. Thank you guys 😊
Glad you enjoyed it
County and shire are largely interchangeable today but the term "Shire" is pre Norman and "County" came into use after the Norman Conquest in 1066AD
What a great guy and a lovely family
A county show in the English sunshine is so wonderful. My local one is the Great Yorkshire show 💕
Brings back happy memories of going to country shows as a child with my family, for some reason I remember we always came home with ducks eggs. Nice to see you and your family having such a good time.
My grandfather painted rides for and ran haulage vehicles for fairs and county shows in Kent up to the second world war.
The 'big wheels' as they were called then 'Ferris Wheels' were American, were a particular favourite of his along with the merry-go-rounds, for which he painted the top panels and sometimes the horses. .
Looks like a great day, there is the chatsworth country show at the beginning of September, it’s over a few days but you can get tickets for a day. I think blue Stilton should be saved for tiny cheese crackers at Xmas with port! Very brave having it on a burger xx
Can this family be anymore likeable? They put many native Brits to shame!👏😊
Is that right..? 🙄🇬🇧
@390h8er - I assume you are talking specifically about yourself and those you know.
Great video. I love your attitude so positive and interested in new things.👍
Great Yorkshire Show 12th to 15th July in Harrogate. Its a big one.
Miss summer in the uk, remember going to the Royal show at Stoneleigh in Warwickshire , huge agricultural show but unfortunately no longer happens
It’s too bleeding 🥵 atm🤣🤣🏴, where are you calling home now then Jaqueline?
Loved this tour. 🙏
Wonderful memories, the children are very fortunate.
I am very onboard with you on the Belted Galloways. They are absolutely the best cows.
Would love to see you at The Great Yorkshire Show
Me too. 🙂
Beautiful family. Welcome to the UK!!
I love your enthusiasm and that of your family. I once spent an entire summer working with British Sugar at a number of agricultural shows. It was a wonderful experience and an opportunity to see how the countryside works. Try and see the Great Yorkshire show near Harrogate. Have a wonderful summer!
I an extremely impressed,you and your family are everything possible to be part of the british way of life
Love Derbyshire. Theres probably some farmers events in Nottinghamshire too, which isn't far. Stilton is nice with pear. Enjoy your sunny summer!
You have to see Chatsworth country fair (Derbyshire) !! Amazing stately home back drop, Grand scale! Loved watching this video.
I love county shows Orsett, Tendring, Chatsworth and so on. I was especially impressed with the small livestock shows at Tendring, who knew there were so many types of hens, ducks and pigeons.
Good to see you all out having a lovely day
Great yorkshire show, Harragate, Yorkshire. 12-15 July.
The only county show I've visited was the Cheshire County Show on a school trip when I was 15 .
Well worth visiting, I think you'd love it. Not too far from Derbyshire.
Stilton with Jacobs Cream Crackers, butter and grape's, all washed down with a fine port.....bliss
You can see everything in those county fairs. There’s usually a home made cake tent - competition is fierce. And a beer tent with home made beers and wines, again, competitions.
Stilton - isn’t made in Stilton as it’s not in the right county any more. You’ll often see Stilton and Broccoli soup in the shops. There’s also one with no blue veins, but not so common.
Smashing video...funny to see myself and my sheep in the background when you were talking about needle felting. Jon
Thanks for this! You've now make me want to head off to a county show. I've only been here 71 years and have never been to one. Those sheep are just drop dead gorgeous. It's great to see an American family enjoying the UK while they're living here. I really must check your early videos to work out your back story. Where the heck, for example, is that lovely house you appear to live in?
Lovely video. I used to live near there. Loved it.
🙂
Top people you are!
Lovely way to spend the day as a family.
As wonderful as ever :)
There are two agricultural/food shows in Yorkshire that I can think of straight away, unfortunately one is The Great Yorkshire Show 12th to the 15th of July but it has sold out of tickets unfortunately, the other one is a much smaller affair and is the Wensleydale Show and that is at Layburn in North Yorkshire at the beginning of May and lasts three days.
The Great Yorkshire Show is on now but tickets have all gone, next year will see them back again and well worth visiting, the one in Layburn sells a lot of foods which are locally made and absolutely delicious, great video yet again, always a pleasure to see you and your family enjoying such wholesome activities, you never disappoint :)
Stilton is a very strong flavoured cheese. Very nice though. Perfect weather for a County Show. Not so nice when wet and muddy. Well worth looking out for traction engine shows. They have road rollers, farming engines and equipment, all sorts. I believe the Suffolk, Norfolk or Essex shows have them. Great you are enjoying them.
Looks like you had a great day out. There's plenty of agricultural shows around. The Cheshire Show is good, but I think it's just gone and there's the daddy of them all, The Great Yorkshire Show. Plenty in the south too.
Great Yorkshire show starts tomorrow, it’s worth a visit if you’ve got the time and can get tickets. It’ll be a hot one this year 😀
Absolutely love your videos about nature. Animals and nature ...love it😊
The great Dorset steam fair in Blamford forum. National Motor Museum, Beaulieu
The tank Museum all great attractions to see. The steam fair would be great for you as it shows off the old steam traction engines used in farming back in the day amazing to see the kids will love it lots to do. I don't know if you have already been there as I have started at the start of your video's
The Royal Cornwall show is HUGE.
Spread over 3 days (early June),you see the very best of all livestock as they are transported from all parts of the country.
But really,events like the one in this video are commonplace throughout Britain.
In Cornwall in September,we have an event called Crantock Bale Push.
Where teams of four push these big bales of hay around the village,and on an upward climb,there’s always one who gets “rolled over”
It’s now gone international with teams from Belgium,Germany and Switzerland competing this year.
It’s a great laugh.
So many others I could list.
Make sure you go to chatsworth show, it’s in Derbyshire
What a great day out for you and the family Mac , glad the weather was kind to you .We have the Devon county show in Exeter , always a great day out. Great video Mac .
You should try Steam Rallies if you like the old traction engines. Astle Park, Cheshire this weekend.
What a lovely family
Grasmere in the Lake district is a one to see they have Fell running both people and dogs its amazing place
So glad to have you with us here in the UK! Thanks for appreciating what our little island has to offer! I'd recommend heading to the Malverns and Wales - some wonderful shows there: they'd love to see you and I think you'd enjoy what is on offer :-) Ooh - and perhaps consider Folk East in Suffolk in August for another type of tradition!
The Yorkshire Show is on this week. Hope you can make it next year it’s a great day out
The Bakewell show is on Sunday 17 July, it’s in the same region but Bakewell is such a beautiful place I’m sure you and your family would love it.
Lancashire Agricultural Show is 22-24th July. Love this video.
Look forward to your next visit to a county show. Unfortunately you've missed the The South of England Show at Ardingley in my county of West Sussex for this year.
im glad oyo enjoyed yourself,county shows are always interesting
Welcome to the best county in the UK. It would be the perfect county if it were by the sea .
Stilton Town, where the cheese originated from, is just up the road from you. A small quiet town with a great pub for Stilton related meals. You will have to check it out some time.
Always a pleasure. Thanks guys
I love getting out and about with you and your family, all without leaving my house. You do a great job selling Britain, but you do an even better job of selling Americans. Love to you all.
The New Forest Country Show is a huge one and runs 26th to 28th July, well worth a visit. Plenty of other things to do in the area as well.
We was at this show ,we took are ponnies and are daughter rode it there webhad a great to
Great genuine vid, as is your channel. If you liked the show and don't live too far away checkout the Woodland Festival on the same site in Sept.
All the best
Ian
I would have nominated the Monmouthshire Show, but they aren't running it this year.
Last I was there, the highlight was Meirion Owen and his Quack Pack (a squad of sheepdog-guided ducks, with audience participation). Though, there were also dynamic horse riding displays and competitions and the usual agricultural stuff.
Thanks
The royal Welsh show 👍🏴