Sunday 14 August 2011

Country fair


I don't know what our visitors would have made of this,
but as they had popped out for a weekend in Paris
they missed it. 


There was a brass band of course.


A spinning display.


 Very good homemade icecream.
Plenty of bric a brac.
A raffle.
Tombola.
White elephant.
Throw the ball in a bucket.


(Just thinking about explaining any of this is giving me a headache.)



And best of all -  a dog show.
Here are the dogs checking each other out.
The judging was very earnest.
Rosettes were awarded, but
although I watched for quite a while
I never had the slightest notion
what the winner had done
to deserve it.


A consolation pat perhaps?


I sense a disappointment here.

13 comments:

  1. I love a good village fete :D Ours is soon, complete with welly whanging and abseiling down the bell tower ... all in aid of the church restoration fund. I think I'll have to lobby for the inclusion of a dog show next year :D

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  2. We have a dog show at the Ham Fair in June, and all sorts of wonderful stalls. Your fair looks like 'proper' country, what jolly good fun! (and you had the weather!)

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  3. Greengage icecream sounds wonderful.

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  4. Looks like a fun day. Lots of variety and traditions maintained.
    I will be staying awake thinking about the dog show! ha ha
    Helen xx

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  5. I'm sure they will be sorry they missed it--looks like lovely old-fashioned fun.

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  6. I can just imagine the difficulty of trying to explain all that. I like the idea of Greengage icecream.

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  7. We had our county fair one week ago. Instead of a dog show, the horses, cows, pigs, chickens and all manner of things were judged.

    And homemade ice cream was served!

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  8. Wow. There are places they still do all of that? I want to move there.

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  9. I asked for a greengage ice cream and although the lid had GG pencilled on it I'm sure it was gooseberry. Still very nice.

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  10. I don't suppose the dogs mind.

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  11. That will have been GooseGog icecream then?

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  12. Yes I think that must have been it!

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