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tilt-a-whirl, tilt-a-won’t

“You have to give in to the Show experience. When you do, I swear you will have a ball. It is undeniably tacky, but it’s so novel and stimulating – especially for a city slicker like me.”

RHIANA JAY IS A REGULAR PRO-SHOW JOE.

Name a time when you feel more alive than the blood‑pumping minute spent zooming along the wooden tracks of a roller coaster that should have been decommissioned 50 years ago… Yeah, didn’t think so. Name somewhere you can go to see baby animals, motorcycle stunts, cake decorating, lumberjack log rolling, sheep shearing and Shannon Noll live in performance, all in the one space. Not many places come to mind, eh?

There’s all this and more at the Royal Show, baby. It’s the agricultural highlight of the year. kids (baby goats). I watch the monster truck shows and the cow milking displays.

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