![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
Martin King
Martin King, The Independent's Online Editor, has been working on Internet sites for about 14 years. Which is why he needed to get off his backside. Other people take screen breaks, he just entered a marathon.
The Royal Show - once the world's largest agricultural event - will soon disappear from the Great British diary. At exactly the wrong time.
About 400 of the 500-odd miles I have run since the end of October have been on rural roads - coincidentally about 100 of them close to the Royal Showground in Warwickshire, a site that is not just the geographical heart of the country but also the heart of UK farming.
I declare a bias: I covered the show (as an agriculture correspondent for the Coventry Evening Telegraph) in the late 1970s, when it enjoyed six-figure crowds and brought surrounding roads to a halt even on set-up and clear-out days.
( Just re-invent it. Read more... )
</div>
