Thursday, June 05, 2008
05 Ardingly again - The end of an era and South of England Show
Today Bill and I have been in Ardingly once again - for a very different occasion.
We have been enjoying experiences at The South of England Show.
There is so much to see and so much walking that, of course, we have ended the day exhausted once again.
It was a delight to see cousin David in the cattle judging ring showing 3 Ayrshires with his daughter and grand daughter.
We had a long chat with David later in the day.
We saw pigs and sheep and rabbits - seemed to miss the goats because it was late in the day and our legs were complaining.
We bumped into Rocking Horse Karin in the rabbit tent.... "Shall I buy a rabbit?" she was asking. Well, they were adorable.
We enjoyed the floral displays.
We sat for a while at the main arena and watched the show jumping.
We sat in the warm sun and ate some lunch, chatting with interesting people who were sharing or table.
There were display stalls selling everything a country person might need, think they need or perhaps could be persuaded they needed.
We bought nothing - though perhaps we should have returned to buy plants.
We were there for 6 and a half hours and knew that our powers of concentration and enjoyment were sinking fast, so we went home.
We have masses of photos - some of which will appear here tomorrow.
But for now I have a collection of Rocking Horse photos - mainly for our colleagues there to share and enjoy and probably laugh at!
They were all taken yesterday evening as we enjoyed a Chinese meal together in the empty shop.
I played a little game of "Pass the camera" - take a picture of the person on your left and pass it on. That way I would have pictures of everybody without too much intrusion and without it taking very long.
They don't need naming - if you don't know the people, then probably you don't care - and of course Rocking Horse people know who everybody is.
Shop people might care to look at my index and go into June 2006.
http://grandma-p-ramblings.blogspot.com/2006/06/antiques-and-collectables-shop.html"
and
http://grandma-p-ramblings.blogspot.com/2006/06/antiques-shop-part-2.html
These links will take you to a couple of items I did in the early days of my blogging about the shop. I was attempting to explain and show family and friends far away just what the shop was all about.
We have been enjoying experiences at The South of England Show.
There is so much to see and so much walking that, of course, we have ended the day exhausted once again.
It was a delight to see cousin David in the cattle judging ring showing 3 Ayrshires with his daughter and grand daughter.
We had a long chat with David later in the day.
We saw pigs and sheep and rabbits - seemed to miss the goats because it was late in the day and our legs were complaining.
We bumped into Rocking Horse Karin in the rabbit tent.... "Shall I buy a rabbit?" she was asking. Well, they were adorable.
We enjoyed the floral displays.
We sat for a while at the main arena and watched the show jumping.
We sat in the warm sun and ate some lunch, chatting with interesting people who were sharing or table.
There were display stalls selling everything a country person might need, think they need or perhaps could be persuaded they needed.
We bought nothing - though perhaps we should have returned to buy plants.
We were there for 6 and a half hours and knew that our powers of concentration and enjoyment were sinking fast, so we went home.
We have masses of photos - some of which will appear here tomorrow.
But for now I have a collection of Rocking Horse photos - mainly for our colleagues there to share and enjoy and probably laugh at!
They were all taken yesterday evening as we enjoyed a Chinese meal together in the empty shop.
I played a little game of "Pass the camera" - take a picture of the person on your left and pass it on. That way I would have pictures of everybody without too much intrusion and without it taking very long.
They don't need naming - if you don't know the people, then probably you don't care - and of course Rocking Horse people know who everybody is.
Shop people might care to look at my index and go into June 2006.
http://grandma-p-ramblings.blogspot.com/2006/06/antiques-and-collectables-shop.html"
and
http://grandma-p-ramblings.blogspot.com/2006/06/antiques-shop-part-2.html
These links will take you to a couple of items I did in the early days of my blogging about the shop. I was attempting to explain and show family and friends far away just what the shop was all about.
