An annual country show organised by a family events company was hit with bad weather over the bank holiday weekend, leading some to describe it as an ‘absolute shambles’ and liken it to the muddy ‘Battle of the Somme’.

The Bucks Country Show was held at The Big Park in Penn House on Bank Holiday Sunday, May 5, and Monday, May 6.

It was organised by Quintessentially British Events, a family-run company founded in 2008 that prides itself on “keeping ticket (costs) low and affordable” and “offering something for everybody” including dog and horse rings, cooking demonstrations, living history and classic cars.

Some ticketholders who paid £12 online or £12.50 at the gate for entry to the country show were not satisfied, however.

Zoe Brooks was among the disgruntled attendees, and she told the Free Press she “wouldn’t bother” going to the event again.

Adding: “It really wasn’t worth the money to get in. There were massive queues to park and to buy tickets and there was hardly anything there anyway.  

“Most of the card machines weren’t working either, so lots of stalls and vendors could only take cash.”

Other comments that appear to have been removed from the country show’s Facebook page describe it as an “absolute shambles”, with one person writing: “This cannot be classed as a country show, it’s a village fete at best”.

Another described it as a “rip-off with hardly any stalls” that, thanks to bad weather, was more akin to “the Battle of the Somme than a country show”.

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However, a spokesperson for Quintessentially British Events said the complaints came from a vocal minority that did not represent the consensus opinion of this year’s event.

They denied that any comments had been manually removed from their social media pages but said guidelines were in place to limit spam and harassment.

They also said some naysayers had used “foul language” to specifically target staff at the company following the Bank Holiday event.

“We can put on events in glorious sunshine, no problem. We were working in difficult conditions (this weekend) and managing (it) as efficiently and safely as was humanly possible.”

The organisers also took issue with claims that the show was bad value for money, suggesting instead that a “£12 ticket including dog rings, a horse ring, cookery demonstrations and craft stalls” was a reasonable price to charge.”

“(The weather) did cause some delays in people getting in and there were problems with card machines because the mobile signal was down, but that was unfortunately out of our control.

“A handful of people will always be unhappy, (but) many thousands were extremely happy.”