Show season is upon us.

It's Devon County Show today. 
Part of me wishes I was there, but looking out of the Active Dartmoor office window at the rain lashing down, I think maybe I'm in the right place! 
Two years ago we took the show trailer and a wonderful old VW campervan courtesy of O'Connors Camper Vans in Okehampton and camped at the show for the duration. We were situated in the Dartmoor Hill Pony Association compound by kind permission of Charlotte Faulkner and had a marvelous time promoting all things Dartmoor. The DHPA performed their wonderful musical ride twice a day in the ring directly in front of us, designed to raise awareness of these lovely ponies and show what versatile animals they are. 

That was the year that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police attended the show, they were stabled a mere few yards away from the trailer so we had plenty of opportunity to chat to the riders and get to know their amazing horses a little. The sight of one of their 17.2 hands black horses gently touching noses with one of the Dartmoor Ponies was very moving. The Mounties were fascinated by the Dartmoor Hill Ponies, and the Dartmoor Heritage Ponies, and so impressed by the children's musical ride they invited the entire team into the ring for a photo call! Happy days :-)

But enough reminiscing! We're really looking forward to going to the Dartmoor shows this year with the Active Dartmoor magazine trailer. We will be at Okehampton, Chagford, Lustleigh, Widecombe Fair, and Belstone Village Fair. We love chatting to our readers, getting feedback about the magazine and catching up with the other Dartmoor based trade stands folk. We may well have some very interesting visitors to the trailer this year, all of them with feathers. Some have feathers all over, some have feathers just on their legs, as we are hoping to have birds of prey and the big friendly giants from Adventure Clydesdale spending some time with us on our stand.