Welcome to my perfumed garden

To the kind and lovely souls who nominated my website for the LMFA's. It's up for:

Info/Resource Design: Temple of the Sentinels
Info/Resource Content: Temple of the Sentinels
Multiple Author – Design: Temple of the Sentinels
Multiple Author – Content: Temple of the Sentinels

I can only have 2. I think I'll go for content, rather than design; I'm really rather embarrassed by the look of the site; I put it together very quickly; had to learn Front Page as I went along and it's all rather crude and ugly to my eye; I'm desperate to give it a good overhaul. Maybe one day...

OTOH, the author content consists mostly of my own stories, so accepting the content nom smacks a little of massive hubris. (o:

Oh blimey. This award cove is a bit of a tricky animal,isn't it?

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::