It hasn't reached their web site yet but I can exclusively reveal that Susan Adams has decided to call it a day on the annual Tonbridge Garden Show after 15 years of organising the event. She's apparently fed up with nanny state style safety regulations, such as having to call the traffic controller "Traffic Controller" instead of Pete or Andy, and having to put EXIT signs over the obvious exits of the marquee. She's sick of having to pay £45,000 in costs to put on the show and sick up to here of contractors taking the piss and being jobs worths, had it with the red tape of it all. In short she had enough, sick of it, fed up, pissed off with it. Do you get the idea! I'll be honest and say that, having taken a table at the last show and comparing it with the shows of ten years ago I would say that the event has seen its glory days, despite the claims of over 15,000 visitors, and it is probably a wise time to finish it. But good luck to Susan and Dick in their retirement; perhaps they can now just enjoy their own garden instead of worrying about sorting everybody else's out. So if you want to book a table for next year then make some other plans to sell your dodgy hard wood garden furniture; or if you were planning to go and buy a new chimaneya or new metal arbour arch tough luck buster; you'll just have to go to Notcutts in Pembury instead....