Thursday, 12 June 2025 08:55

Fieldays goes urban

Written by  Milking It

OPINION: Once upon a time the Fieldays were for real farmers, salt of the earth people who thrived on hard yakka.

There were rural 'games' in the form of the tractor pull but the organisers never went the way of the Irish and incorporated ploughing into the event. In the early days the sites were very much rural but over the years this has changed.

Now, the cry of the urbanites and life sentence block owners has been answered with the news this year there'll be lawn mower racing.

Is this the start of an era which will see the return of sack races - the perfect event for the 'city suit types' to get their designer gear tucked into a dirty sack?

What about egg and spoon races, three-legged races and so on? Maybe guess how many jellybeans in the jar. For the hardy rural types, lawnmower racing and what might follow seems a far cry from the original concept of field days. The times are a changin'!

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