Village Show

[Flummery]

Well, I won a slack handful of First Prize awards again this year - sadly all you get is a card saying First Prize in red!

My peas, broad beans and tayberry jam came up trumps, together with a quilt and a vase of 3 annuals.

If your village has a show - bang something in! Someone's got to win.

[happybunny]

:O Well Done Flummy!!!

[maytreefrannie]

Congratulations ! Well done and I bet the awards are well deserved.

[seasprout]

Well done. Did you get to keep your stuff or was it sold..?

[allotmentlady]

Whoooooooohooooooo flummery brilliant news, I bet u r pleased, even if it is only a card! Its the winning that counts.

[BumbleB]

Hey that must be so pleasing. Its a pat on the back, well done!

[Flummery]

Well done. Did you get to keep your stuff or was it sold..?

You get to keep it. You should have seen me walking home - folded quilt on one shoulder - bin-bag with vases, boxes of bits & pieces of fruit and veg, husband with tray of left over plants from our Britain in Bloom stall. Was ready for a kip when I got in!

[jackie j]

Well done Flum congratulations.

[scarey55]

Woohoo, Well done you But then, I didn't really expect anything else from you.

Bestest congratulations to you well done

[Alice]

Congratulations Flummery. I seem to remember you won quite a few prizes last year too. I hope you're entering for our virtual show. It's no glory to the rest of us if the best growers don't enter - if you see what I mean, so get your camera clicking.
Enjoy your local celebrity status, at least you got it for something as opposed to some of the twits going about who are just famous for being famous - I won't go off on that.
Well done Flummery.

[SarzWix]

Well done Flum Seeing those red cards next to your entry when you're allowed back in the hall is a fab feeling, even if it doesn't bring untold riches

I had my Show Schedule delivered the other day, ours isn't til the end of August. A lot of stuff has been eaten by then, and I haven't grown anything specifically for it, but I'll probably enter the tomatoes & potatoes and anything else that looks half decent.

The 'Home' stuff I definitely will be doing - Jam/Jelly, Chutney, Victoria Sponge, Decorated Chocolate Cake, Scones, Shortbread, Shrewsbury Biscuits & 10" Plate of salad.

[FionaH]

Well done Flum!

[Hazel at the Hill]

Well done, Flum!

*big cheer!

Seeing those red cards next to your entry when you're allowed back in the hall is a fab feeling, even if it doesn't bring untold riches

It certainly is - although explaining how good it feels to a non-gardener is nigh on impossible!

Our Show is Aug 9th, but I haven't seen the schedule yet - it's about 45% flowers, 45% veg & 10% home mades (cakes, jam, pickle, chutney). They don't have a wine section, mores the pity - I'd be up for entering that.

The stuff you can do in advance (onions, pots, shallots, garlic, home mades) is far easier to plan for - I do 'panic' very well on show morning trying to pick/choose/wash/prep veg for the classes I've entered!

It's fabulous fun though - everyone should have a go!

[Woofster]

Congrats, Flummery. Entering shows is fun and I would encourage anybody who has the opportunity to enter. It is lovely if you win (or get 2nd or 3rd) but it is the taking part that counts. People always think they have to have amazingly perfect produce and are put off by this but really you just need to choose your best.
I am Show secretary of my local horticultural society and it can be very hectic getting everything set up AND preparing my entries but it is lovely seeing the tables with everybodies entries laid out and then after the judges have gone looking to see if you have won anything and reading the judges comments (I wish all judges left comments).

[HayleyB]

Congrats to Aunty Flum on another successful show, BIG Clap claps