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I was late to fat club today. It's the farm traffic on the roads. Everything seems on a go slow.
Before I jumped on the scales, I tried to cover myself by telling Marjorie Dawes that I have just been on holiday in Broadstairs!
" one pound on!" Marjorie announced loudly
" Is that all ?" I exclaimed " I can't believe that!"
" Well it's true" Marjorie replied ..and she seemed rather morose " I put on eleven and a half pounds when I went on holiday"
I felt like saying " Where did you go on holiday...Willie Wonka's Chocolate Factory? " but I didn't
But it would have been very funny if I had.
Having said that, I have just chomped my way through a box of celebrations
- a thank you from old Lynwen Hughes for her son winning the best ornamental garden cup! I keep telling her I cannot influence the judging and that he won on merit.....but she insisted

http://whiteonricecouple.com/recipes/zucchini-soft-taco-shells/

 In an effort to be healthier , I have just made these odd looking but bloody lovely courgette tortillas for tea.......having said this, I did notice that I had hidden the celebrations wrappers in the gaudy welsh jug on the kitchen table!
WHERE DO YOU HIDE YOUR CHOC WRAPPERS?

I'll leave you with photos of William and Winnie sporting their new bandannas

Stalker

I should have known better than to slag off an affable despot's shit novelty vegetable on a public forum
Hell hath no fury than a despot scorned
Yesterday afternoon, when I had just got into bed I checked facebook to see if there was any feedback about the show and I was greeted with this photo and comment

Claire Randa added 4 new photos to the album: iOS Photos.

19 hrs · iOS · 

Jason's novelty veg isn't happy with all the negativity ..,,he is watching you ....always watching

 — with John Gray.

Innocent enough but...THE PHOTO WAS TAKEN INSIDE OUR GARDEN only a minute or so previously!
Seconds later this photo appeared

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  Claire Randa John Gray I know what you said this summer 

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 Liberties!
The fucking thing is sitting INSIDE our berlingo!
It's the morning after and I have just checked under the bed before going to bed!

The Trelawnyd Flower Show in Detail

For some strange reason Blogger has published the next seven or so entries all out of sequence

I cannot be arsed changing it so be patient...off for  another sleep now....working night shift tonight xxxx

Local girl Sandra Cameron winning the cup for best flowers

My nephew, his partner and my great neice

The whole village turned out as always

Committee members Rerry, Heulwen and John in the full sunshine

The Veg

The veg classes I had been most worried about as the weather has not been kind to the allotments. The two main exhibitors from Trelawnyd are women ( a rarity in shows) Jean Smith and Sandra Cameron share back to back vegetable plots and provided a wonderful cross section of exhibits. Jean excelled in the fruit classes whist Sandra's beetroots won the special best in Show award. Mr Butler stated that they were best exhibits he had seen all year! 

 What boosted our veg exhibits is the re emergence of two local " growers" Mr Rowlands and Mr Hughes, who come from neighbouring villages and the dark horse last minute arrival of a Mr Owen who trounced everyone to win the cup for most points in the veg class.
Mr Butler summed up the competition by clapping his hands and calling out " The Battle is on!"

Arts, Crafts, Photos and Floral Art

We had lots of paintings, so many that we had to exhibit some with the international novelty veg

The floral art is perhaps our smallest class which has been dwarfed somewhat by the photo class ( our own Yorkshire Pudding won the " Relaxation " photo class ) which did cause a bit of a stir wih many competitors ....( more about that later!)

Committee member Carol waiting for her judge to arrive.....

Teenage boffin Cameron checking the art

The miniture floral art class

Fruit, Herbs and Woodwork

This beautiful eagle is now mine, 

A gift from the man who made it 

Colin and Yola Endres have lived in the village all of their lives 

And are due to move very soon to Manchester to be near their daughter.

Both are in frail health , so I went around to their house to pick flowers from their garden in order to enter the show for a last time. Colin gave me this sculpture as a gift and I entered it into the show under his name

Of course it won a prize!

The Committee & Judging

 Auntie Gladys ( centre) always serves the judges tea and scones before they start work. Here she is discussing " scone " strategy with fellow committee members Irene and Ann.
The show treasurer " Sailor " John is looking a little bemused on the left

 Trained cook and committee member Julie is our domestic class judge...she had the biggest job of the day as our domestic classes have rocketed . We had over 65 cakes entered this year and thats not counting biscuits, flans, tarts and jams

 Sorting out the certificates

 The veg judge Mr Butler is a nationally renown judge who worksmost of the summer judging much larger shows all over the UK... He always makes a point of coming to our show as a priority.

Terry always seems to escort the cookery judge

And always tries out the tasting of everything

Yesterday

 The 43rd Annual Show was deemed a sucess by a neatly dressed Auntie Glad just before we opened. She couldn't see the lavender bunting but we brought some down for her to hold and she got the commitee gently smiling by saying over and over again " how marvellous how marvellous"
It's been our biggest show to date.
556 entries this year ,including 54 international photos.....

And the flowers kept comming.......Chris opened the Show with a wonderfully animated speech on Friendship and tradition....( i'll post a photo of this later as Cameron took some when I was having a sneaking drink in the kitchen) and he praised Auntie Glad who recieved a huge round of applause....

So I have pisted a few photos below in different sections...

Thank you to tbe committee....Sailor John, Irene, Terry & Ann, Derek & Heulwen, Boffin Cameron, Carol, Julie, Meirion & Daphne for all of their hard work 

And thank you to all that supported the day 

Jxxxx