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Pa Snip that did make me smile! I turned off my touch screen as well & went back to the key board as kept finding a little smudge or something & going for a cruise through google!

Westi

I'm in Spain my laptop has given up I'm using my kindle fire to keep in touch with various websites I'm on but my finger is to big for the keyboard and I keep hitting the wrong letters as well as the spell checker is doing my head in that apart it's a cracking little tablet I can't turn the spell checker off as I can't spell

I mentioned earlier about it being our local horticultural and craft show day last Saturday.
I entered, as did Mrs Snip, as did my daughter and my almost 3 year old grandson entered some junior classes.

We won cards as follows.
Grandson, 2 x 1st. 3 x 2nd. Also won a cup for best decorated flower pot

Daughter, 3 x 1st, 1 x 2nd, 1 x 3rd Also won a cup for best cake in show

Mrs Snip, 4 x 1st,1 x 2nd, 3 x 3rd

Me, 5 x 1st, 5 x 2nd. Also won a small cup for best photograph in show

A very enjoyable day. Small local shows like this could do with more support.

Daughters cake (excuse the clingfilm, the show stewards try to cover all the cakes)


Grandsons decorated flower pot


The onions I grew from seed with the intention of entering the show in this class. '4 Onions each over 8oz'

Morning Pa Snip, what a wonderful family effort.....you all seem to have done very well, so a big congratulations to you all, especially your Grandson.

Morning OH

We did enjoy ourselves, and we had some family competitiveness in the process , thanks for commenting.
One of my fellow plotholders took the shield for most points in show jointly with one of the ladies who entered many of the craft classes. Not sure where we came overall.

Where we live would have once been called a hamlet, there were green fields between it and the town. Nowadays it cannot even really be described as a village as there are houses all the way between us and the town. I guess it is really a parish of the borough now. We live right on the outer edge of the parish
My point is there are so many residential houses in the area that this show, and others like it should be heaving with people that have entered the craft, jam & cake making, flower or vegetable growing classes or even just visiting.

Without the likes of all of us supporting such events another tradition will disappear.

Following on from the above comments about our local show, on Sunday we drove a couple of miles (literally) up the road to what is a country village. They were holding their village craft and horticultural show.
We got there and the village was heaving, cars parked everywhere, people meandering from house to house throughout the village.

Rather cleverly they had combined their local show with a village gardens open day in aid of the local air ambulance.
This particular village has housing ranging from local council housing association to homes costing a couple of million plus.

Whilst the veg section had a smaller amount of entries than our show, the tables were overladen with the home made bread & cakes, jam, wine and other home made produce along with photographic entries.

This was a really well supported local show, the village turned out in force for it.

However, I had a surreal moment when a thought came over me.
Having looked around all the entries there I stood by the tent containing the flowers and veg and as I did so a picture entered my mind>


(There were people around, honest )

The scene was a village location, local show in progress, local residents all proud of their show entries and competing with each other for top prizes.

A stranger from the next village is in their midst. He has entered the show and has taken cups and prizes, the village residents are up in arms.
A scream repeated itself, a shot rang out. Pheasants took flight, the stranger was dead.


Enter John Nettle's for yet another Midsomer Murder
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Serious stuff these village shows

We had our allotment open day in July we are not from a village but half way between liverpool and Manchester we have over a quarter of a million people in our town despite all the advertising and leafleting we did ,the turn out was poor until an hour before we where due to close, one of our local fire crews turned up ,better late than never they parked just inside the allotment just behind the police car both threw there doors open to let anyone have a sit in, the fire engine sounded his siren with in five minutes we had around a hundred people come in to have a look around, we raised over £700 for our funds

robo that is brilliant.

Amazing what the emergency services can achieve.

Crikey Pa Snip, and i thought i had a vivid imagination....

I just love your posts, they always make me smile.....well most of them...

oldherbaceous wrote:Crikey Pa Snip, and i thought i had a vivid imagination....

I just love your posts, they always make me smile.....well most of them...

OH

My posts could probably benefit from a bit of brevity at times.

In this instance the imagination was fed by the people who were the locals, the country sweaters, the clean jeans and jumper brigade, the ladies in summer dresses. The whole scene really was typical of a TV location and the characters often portrayed.

And I really did feel they would not appreciate outsiders entering their show.

The definition of an "outsider" of course being anybody who has not lived in the village.for at least 60 years and has at least half a dozen tombstones of relatives in the churchyard.

Laughing out loud after reading your comment Primrose,

As it happens ........................

I did take a picture of the village church

Ah offcomers - still classify, only been in the house 30 years.

Don't need Barnaby though. "Did you have a nice day out? Saw you got off early". We left at 07:10.

It's the inbreeding and multiple cross relationships you have to watch. Mentioned a couple to a 90 year old neighbour "Well they are both sort of cousins really" - turns out her grandmother had 64 grandchildren so the surrounding valleys are full of relations.

They have accepted my wife, she judges at the village show; perhaps on reflection its not acceptance probably more a case of neutrality!

Am searching through the dim and distant memories of my youth when I used to be a bell ringer and went on all kinds of ringing outings, ringing at different chirches . . Not sure I recognise that one though. . Usually often only remember the towers where a rope or a bell stay snapped on me !! You don't forget those events in a hurry , especially when you have a 15 cwt bell on the other end of the rope and you get thrown across the belfry. I had a very exciting youth! They didn't t have whitewater rafting in those days!

Recent posts in various forums about kitchens, kids haircuts, obesity (two of those categories started by the same person) with a thinly disguised (see what I've done there ), advert for a personal trainer in one case and even my own comments and hallucinations about village shows and a picture of a church.

And now for something completely different..................
(Background music, The Liberty Bell plays)

Yes folks its a thread about dead parrots

Nahhh I jest

Its back to actual gardening and produce

Pictured earlier in this thread was some of the onions I grew from seed for the very first time.
I sowed about 60 back at the beginning of the year and harvested 54 last Friday (11th Sept)
The variety was Kelsae and whilst I like a strong onion these are mild and sweet but we both have found them to be a nice taste and like eating them.
I shall be looking out for Kelsae seeds at Malvern Autumn show next weekend (26th / 27th Sept).

Talking of Malvern Autumn Show, Anybody going ?????? I shall be going with Mrs Snip on Saturday, Mrs Snip is going both Saturday and Sunday.