The Penistone Show

[panik]

is on today! Your one-stop shop for well-scrubbed pigs (maybe; not sure how the foot and mouth business has affected all that side of things), runaway dogs competing with small children on a sugar-high for most badly behaved in show; the scent of fried onions and candy-floss; vintage cars and face-painting; fudge stalls and baked potatoes; the Doctor Who travelling caravan display; the judging of home-baked pies, honey, jams and wines; enormous chrysanthemums and pert young carrots; WI Corruption in the cake-competition (my sister has never entered again; not since the Great Dali-cake outrage of 2004), corn-dollies, the carousel and the tunnel of goats...

Oh yes indeedy, tis that time of the year again! We were there early so my sister could enter her home-made wine; she cleans up most years, having taken the Big Silver 'You won more rosettes than anyone else here; Smug Git of the Show' cup two years running.

We met other victims of the Great Exhibit Theft of 2006 when setting out the displays this morning; a woman who lost an apple pie and a jar of lemon curd and a man who had a bottle of mead pinched; Hilary lost a bottle of damson wine. A filthy footpad made off with a ton of the exhibits after judging had closed - a large percentage of the first-prize edibles, in fact. This was Big Stuff for Penistone and made it on to the front page of the Chronicle. I'm amazed they didn't bring Special Branch in; amazed CCTV isn't installed this year. ::she smirked sarcastically::

Hoping the weather holds; 'tis very hot and humid, but clouding over ominously. I'm not going back till about 2pm when the horsey stuff comes to a close and the amateur dog shows begin. I may take pictures to bore dazzle you all with later.

ETA: We had a great time; ate fudge, took pix... Hilary's wine took 3 firsts, 2 seconds, a third, the trophy for best wine in show and, yup, the 'J.E. Depledge Perpetual Trophy' - again. ::Is looking forward to sampling some wine tonight::

Comments

[laurie-ky.livejournal.com]

Sounds a bit like aour county fairs, but we're in a dry county so no booze. If they did have a category for homemade beer , wine and moonshine, I know some folks hat would take the blue ribbons home. We have demolition derbies, too, where old cars crash noisly into each other.
Laurie

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

Dry...? No booze...? Cannot compute!

How can you live like that? (o: No demolition derbies here; Yorkshiremen are way too mean to deliberately crash a car.

[laurie-ky.livejournal.com]

I didn't say we didn't have booze. We have bootleggers, or people drive to a wet county and fetch it home, or make it themselves. For being a dry county we have a lot of drunks who live here.
and alas, it's all acadamic to me anymore. I have an ear disease that imitates the worst hangover you can imagine (or recall) and drinking alcohol can set an attack off. so I haven't had booze for about 6 years.::mourns for lost marguerita's and daqueries).
Laurie

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

It seems to me that dry places always do have the worst drunks (o: ::remembers the Sweden - Denmark ferries with a shudder of horror::

O am sorry about the ear disease; that sounds awful - is it labyrinthitis? I had that once; once was enough.

[laurie-ky.livejournal.com]

It's called Meniere's disease. but I've only had one attack in the last year. (nine hours of having to lay flat on the couch and not move or the room would spin and vertigo is me). The years before that though, were not that much fun. I can take a medicine, mecclizine, if I feel an attack coming, and sometimes that averts it. Other time, not so much.
Laurie