The royal show is being cancelled, as are all my little shows in individual dales.
The ribbons of development have already run through fields and meadows, via riversides and forests, up hills and down dales.
In the extreme west of the county, there are beautiful dales which are served by roads that were constructed for the horse and buggy age.
His area has farms scattered among the dales and hills and it is difficult to get the farmers together to co-operate on a reasonable basis.
They will enjoy the dales without destroying them.
What is more, demography is against the dales; the population is changing.
Hundreds of farmsteads cover the hills and dales, as well as the rural parts of the coastal plain.
One can motor up the dales and suddenly come across chimneys and a factory, with a little village around.
