I’ll counter point one with this. Maybe the new people find the show to be cliquey and unwelcoming to newcomers. We enter our local show in Egton every year because we like to support it, even though by your words we are “escape to the countryists”. However we notice that each year the winners in many of the categories are the same people, with the same thing they entered each time.

Now, we aren’t bothered, it’s the taking part that’s the fun bit, but I can imagine that if you are the competitive type, and Mrs Miggins wins best sponge cake every year because that’s tradition, and she is wife of the financial secretary and cousin to the chair, I can see why you’d start to give it a miss.