It's Showtime

Saturday was Broseley Horticultural and Craft show. Sounds serious doesn't it? For the first year I moved into this community soaked town I was too frightened to enter in any of the exhibits. I had been bitten too many times at the Young Farmers Shows in my youth by having the wrong lid on a jar of jam and my flower arrangement fabric drape slopping outside the 'given measurements' therefore being disqualified. As you can imagine I was once bitten twice shy.

This is the sort of family fun we can have out of picking vegetables!

However, Broseley show, after my first inspection, was just a big vehicle for grown ups show and tell. It was brilliant that first time. I was amazed by the amount of underground knitting going on in my local area and was astounded by how many people could cook a sponge without having different colours of brown around the edges - so it was to pass that I entered some classes the following year and the next and the next.

It is no exaggeration to say it is the highlight of our family year. The girls loved making a vegetable model, gingerbread people and painting a picture. Why not? they are just copying their mum and dad and they might win the one pound prize money for a first place.

 

 

Bloke has got rather excited this year as we have never been able to enter the '2 eggs on a saucer' class before as we only got our chickens this Easter so delight is reached fever pitch.

Finally framed and finished my cross stitch after being
unfinished for over 10 years

 

At the end of show day, we count our prize-pocket-money, look at our certificates and then wonder how we are going to eat all of this cake, picked fruit and veg and opened jars of jam and chutney. You know, we all just have to sit down with a pot of tea and start eating, it's the only way!

Do you have community shows like this where you live?