Penistone Show - Pic spam

[panik]

The Penistone Show - church on the 'Pen' (high place) in the background.



The sort of thing the people of Penistone will get up to unless physically restrained.



Simply enormous leeks! - Really, there's nothing on the pic to show the scale nut honestly...
eye-wateringly huge.



More enormous vegetables.




Russian Dolls.



Huge tartan dildo - This is an actual cactus and quite possibly the most
disturbing thing I've ever seen.



For Snailbones.



And again... I bought lots of these. (o:



For Blair... (o:



I'm as confused as you are.



Guess the weight competition. Heh heh. Only joking. A little insurance, in case the
natives cut up rough during the cake-judging.



Hilary's wine - takes first prize and the trophy.

Shana tova, everyone.

Comments

[karieflybabe.livejournal.com]

lot of phallic symbols there in the beginning... you know the cactus, Russian dolls, carrots, leeks... indeed...

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

Well it is the Penistone Show.

[karieflybabe.livejournal.com]

I wasn't gonna mention that!!!!!!

[arnie1967.livejournal.com]

That cactus is really disturbing - it looks like an alien. And 'stick making'?? I love how they have a very large sign proudly announcing it though!

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

I was genuinely frightened. *g*

[quietdarkness.livejournal.com]

That has got to be some really weird North African Cactus. I've never seen anything resembling it in the US or Central America. It DOES look like it's made of tartan. I thought it was a cloth cactus until you said it was real. Wow!

[betagoddess.livejournal.com]

What a very cool show that was! Thanks so very much for sharing your pics with us!

So, just how many pounds of olives DID you buy? *g*

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

Ooh, only about one, but that's a lot of olives. I'm still eating them and very good they are too.

And you're welcome - I took thousands. (o:

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

It was one of the strangest things I've ever seen - it really did look alien; the sort of thing they'd've dotted around the quarry on Old-School Doctor Who.

[shiredancer.livejournal.com]

Oh, I *love* this! I'll never forget my first trip to England in 1978, visiting my elderly cousin in West Hoathly (near East Grinstead) and going to the South of England Fair with her. She showed us the entry by her Ladies' Group, or Club, or something *g*, and nearly had a fit because one of the ladies had cut up her plums *all wrong* for the canning! It was a terrible situation!! (I'm having a bit of fun here with my poor old cousin.) Really, she went on about it for hours.

Those leeks! What a vichyssoise I could make with them!

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

Oh, I think those leeks were well past a vichyssoise, they were truly enormous and probably tasted disgusting!

These country shows are a hoot and you’re right, they take it *SO* seriously!

[miwahni.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for posting these! It looks like agricultural shows are the same the world over!

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

I've been to a few, on two continents, and I really think they are. Unfortunately my pictures of the welly wanging and tyre throwing aren't that great, not really fit to post, and there were so few animals this year because of the foot and mouth scares. )o:

[miwahni.livejournal.com]

One of our country shows has just been cancelled because of the horse flu that's running rampant throughout Australia at the moment. Sad, really.
And I have to know - what is welly wanging?

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

Oh yum - have I died and gone to heaven? You'd never have got me away from the cheese and olives *g*

Great pics thanks - I love country shows... but no goat tunnel? Ah well... there were stick makers instead... Stick makers???? Hey - I could do that, yes I could ::whole new career opens up before me::

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

The sort of thing more civilised nations do with horse-shoes and cabers and the like; just hurl a rubber boot as far as you can - it can keep a largish group of farmers amused for hours. (o:

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

More olives, indeed, than you could shake any number of sticks at. (o:

Happy Friday, hon. Right this moment, I'm writing fic and eating olives; I'm happy as a pig in poop. *g*

[t-verano.livejournal.com]

just hurl a rubber boot as far as you can - it can keep a largish group of farmers amused for hours

.......     ........God, I lead a sheltered life.

I have to say those carrots are almost as scary to me as that... that... succulent. ::shivers at both::

The Ostrich Farm is very cool, though. And the tank. (If only it would be used to enforce fairness in that cake-judging. It's absolutely criminal that a hedgehog won over your sister's Dali cake! But yay, her wine!)

Thanks for posting these ::smooches you:: -- I gather that's 'shamelessly' though, right? We're not supposed to ::smooch:: and all, haven't I been reading something about that -- we're supposed to be dignified and merely pleasantly, yet unenthusiastically, civil? With which there is nothing *wrong*, of course, but it just isn't nearly as much fun...)

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

I hope your shelter protects you from flying gum boots.

Re: the smooching - are we supposed not to? I have heard that writers are too self-congratulatory and spend way too much time smooching each other when they should be critiquing each other sensibly and being properly snide, snarky and bitter. Is that what you mean? Or is there some other counter-smooching movement that I've hitherto missed?

[t-verano.livejournal.com]

I'm not actually entirely sure -- just remember reading something somewhere recently that passed along a somewhat uncomplimentary non-LJ comment about how we on LJ squee and smooch so much. Eh, I don't know -- I have hot buttons of my own, so I should let other folks have their smooch and squee hot buttons in peace. (I'm just having a weird and not entirely comprehensible day -- certainly not an intelligent day. ...So naturally I pick today to send you fifteen not entirely comprehensible comments on a single afternoon. ::pities you::)

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

Well it certainly made for an interesting inbox when I opened my lappy this evening . (o:

I've heard many times on the lists that LJers are too fond of mutual back-slapping; personally I much prefer the smooching to the nastiness of the lists so smooch away, hon as I smooch you back like a shameless doxie.

[earth2skye.livejournal.com]

This looked like a lot of fun. Have never been to show even remotely like it. Only seen it on TV. Glad you had a good time. And yeah, that cactus phallic symbol looked way disturbing to me, too.