AUCTION FEVER!
In a small country like the U.K., we don’t generally need to travel very far to amuse ourselves. Plenty of events take place through the summer and are easily reached by driving just a few hours. Summertime is when all the shows are held, of course, but tractor events take place throughout the year in one form or another. After the end of the summer show season, we have threshing days, and during the spring and autumn, we have ploughing matches, but throughout the year, there are the auctions.
Auctions are a source of great excitement for tractor folk, and it’s not all about buying things. It is often more about “the craic,” as they say in Ireland, which means enjoying a good time, catching up with like-minded people, and having a laugh. Attending an auction just for “the craic” is normal; most people don’t actually plan to buy anything, or at least not anything big, as many will have come without a trailer, having travelled just for a look. At any auction within a 50-mile radius from home, bumping into people one knows is absolutely guaranteed, as all of the familiar faces turn out for these events.
Purely, apologetically nosy
There are basically two kinds of tractor-related auctions here in the
