If you fancy making a will next week, or buying a new car, purchasing a tractor, signing on for a college career, having a word with the taxman, or getting your fortune told, throw on your wellies and head south to the National Ploughing Championships.
If you are interested, and the weather is not too bad, you might even consider taking a look at a top-class ploughing competition or just admiring a team of horses and a ploughman break open the ground.
If your legs get tired, and they will, you could consider going for a meal, or you might be able to squeeze into one of the many tented bars which you will find on the site. Alternatively, take in a fashion show or watch some horse showjumping, view some craftwork or just go spotting celebrities. They are normally to be found walking the steel trackways which the organisers lay down to allow people access around the tented site. This year, for instance, that trackway, which was used by the NATO forces to provide airstrips in the desert during the Gulf War, is more than five miles long.
That is the kind of action which will be going on down on the farm for three days from Tuesday next at this unique annual gathering. Few people realise that the Irish National Ploughing Championships - to be held at Castletownroche, near Mallow, Co Cork - are the largest in the world.
There is nothing quite like the three-day autumn championships even in the United States or Canada, where an individual farmer can own as much land as we put under the plough countrywide.
Over three days rural Ireland and an increasing number of urban folk will head for the ploughing site which in recent years has seen attendances of up to 180,000.
The statistics surrounding this event, run on a voluntary basis, are quite staggering. The event costs almost £1 million to stage. This year it is being held on the 300-acre farm owned by the Farrell family and an additional 300 acres have had to be set aside for car-parks and other facilities.
Just over 200 acres have been marked out for the 21 ploughing competitions which will involve 300 competitors from 32 counties and seven countries. There will be international competitors from England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Austria, Zimbabwe, Italy and the Irish Republic. A staggering 75 acres has been earmarked for the 850 trade stands and an increasing number of these stands are being run by exhibitors from overseas. Thirteen per cent of the stands have been booked by organisations from the UK and they will be joined by exhibitors from France, Italy, Belgium and Canada.
In addition, there will be a livestock "village" where pedigree and commercial cattle and sheep will be on show and where farmers and others can get information about them.
All this, of course, did not happen by accident. But the event had humble enough beginnings when it was started by J.J. Bergin from Athy in 1931.
It all began with an argument between Bergin and his neighbour, Denis Allen from Wexford, as to whether Kildaremen or Wexfordmen were better ploughmen. There was a competition and the event was born.
He was succeeded as managing director of the NPA by his secretary, Anna May McHugh, from Athy, who runs the event with the precision of a heart surgeon. In the past 10 years the event has taken on mammoth proportions under her guiding hand. In fact, McHugh has had to cap the event to prevent it becoming too large.
The timing of the championships, between the end of the harvest and the onset of winter, provides an ideal opportunity for farmers and their families to take holidays. Many farming families build a holiday around the championships which are held in a different location every year.
The visitors stay with local people, usually farmers like themselves, and this breeds friendships and contacts which many farming people say can be enduring. It also eases the burden on the local volunteers who work flat out before and during the event to deal with the thousands of people who come to enjoy themselves.
For Anna May, however, the whole purpose of the event is to have good ploughmanship on display and to demonstrate how land should be ploughed. It is dangerous to suggest to her that the ploughing is merely an excuse for a few good days out, because she genuinely loves the art.
And there is an art in ploughing. Out on the fields the competition is as fierce as can be seen anywhere, as the competitors seek perfection.
That perfection is to have clean, straight lines and uniform depths of furrow which can only be achieved by precision in the control of the tractor and plough, or the horse and plough.
The ploughmen and women have their own language. They speak of "fleshy" soil, packing, ins and outs. They are marked on their opening split and on skimming.
There can be cheating too. The judges watch for any competitor who would attempt to tamper with the furrow he or she has made by "footing" (smoothing with the foot) any undesirable sod.
This year's championships will feature two major ploughing milestones. Women, who traditionally ploughed in their own "Farmerette" class, have won the right to compete against the men in the most sought-after competition, the Test Match from which the Irish team is picked for the world championships.
This has not happened before because until recently, women needed help with the heavy equipment and could be assisted with lifting and adjusting equipment at the headland of the ploughing plot. This work was normally done by the competitor's father or boyfriend or a coach who were allowed help - but not allowed to enter - the ploughed ground.
Now, according to Anna May, the heavy labour has gone out of ploughing and what remains can be readily handled by female competitors.
The second milestone is the announcement by Martin Kehoe, from Wexford - who is a twice world champion ploughman and won 13 senior national titles, 12 of them in a row - not to take part in the race for the title this year, or the Test Match. However, both his son, Willie John and his daughter, Michelle, will be competing over the three days. The official opening will be performed at noon on Tuesday by the Minister for Agriculture and Food, Joe Walsh. The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, will be there on Tuesday evening for the closing of the first day and the Tanaiste, Mary Harney, will officially close the competitions on Thursday afternoon.
The National Ploughing Championships will be held at Castletownroche, near Macroom, Co Cork, next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 9 a.m. to 6.30 p.m.