TOO CLOSE TO CALL: Flashback to last year’s Bowes Show, which produced a tie for the Headlam Cup for best exhibit. From left, Bella Seymour, Hazel Addison, Susan Addison and…

MEANINGFUL TWEAKS: Dale MP Sam Rushworth

FILM ROLE: Simon Hare with some of his beef Shorthorn and Aberdeen Angus cows at Tree House Farm

Where the wild things are by Dr Richard Warren Forget-me-not. Myosotis species. Scorpion grass Forget-me-not is a fairly recent name in English. Shakespeare, who mentions many other plants, does not…