Next AGS Show - Summer North Saturday, 15 June

[Maggi Young]

Seems ages since we heard from any of the AGS shows  but the next one is this coming weekend:
AGS Show - Summer North  Saturday, 15 June - 12.00 noon to 4.00 pm
Venue: The Chesneys Centre, Regent Street, Featherstone, Pontefract WF7 5EW

I think our recent American visitor is being taken along to see this show - hope everyone has a great day!

[David Nicholson]

Pudsey Pigs out in force?

[Martinr]

Alas, this piglet will be missing, off to see some wild flowers

[ranunculus]

Have a great trip, Martin ... more food in the swill trough for the rest of us!!! 

[Martinr]

Thanks Cliff, who knows maybe I'll manage to sell a few book using my advanced marketing skill. 'No rucksack should be without one.'

[Maggi Young]

Friends,
 please look out for Elisabeth at the show  and say hello - she's coming, I think, with Adrian Young.

Cliff, maybe you met on your NARGS tour? Elisabeth is a friend of Anne S..... 

[ranunculus]

Friends,
 please look out for Elisabeth at the show  and say hello - she's coming, I think, with Adrian Young.

Cliff, maybe you met on your NARGS tour? Elisabeth is a friend of Anne S..... 

I can't seem to find a photo so I pinched this of her from elsewhere!
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Maggi, we were wonderfully fortunate to visit Elisabeth and Rod's magnificent garden during our NARGS Tour in 2010 and enjoyed splendid hospitality and a magnificent meal at their beautiful home.  We hope to meet up with Elisabeth at the show and entice her to the pub to experience a Pudsey Pig competition before she has to dash south for her flight to Paris?

[Maggi Young]

  Cliff, that is good news indeed -and since  Elisabeth eats like a bird your trophy will be safe!   

[ranunculus]

... and since Elisabeth eats like a bird your trophy will be safe!   

Yes, a turkey vulture!!!!  x

[johnw]

Yes, a turkey vulture!!!!  x

Speaking of which, last Monday one swooped in front of my car - about 20m ahead - in northern Nova Scotia.  This is the farthest north I have ever seen one, usually you see them circling on drafts far overhead in the Annapolis Valley, Halifax being the limit.  Now they're 100 miles north of Hfx.  Boy are they big, I thought it was a Dreamliner coming into the Caribou, NS airport for a recharge.

[ranunculus]

Just back from another splendid AGS Show held at Featherstone, Pontefract today 15th June 2013, where the benches were filled with colour, diversity and overwhelming beauty.  A wonderful array of species vied for the host of prizes and Show Secretary, Eric Rainford and his splendid team should be justifiably proud of this tremendous event.  There were a number of contenders for the Farrer Medal and Alan Furness from Hexham reigned supreme with his immaculate Lewisia rediviva.

Alan Furness - Farrer Medal winner 2013
Farrer Medal exhibit - Lewisia rediviva
Farrer Medal exhibit - Lewisia rediviva

[David Nicholson]

Thanks Cliff, WOW what a plant. Who won the PIG?

[ranunculus]

Thanks Cliff, WOW what a plant. Who won the PIG?

Hi David,  I was building up the tension ... but since you asked ... after a fraught (and gluttonous) Pudsey Pig competition, with over twenty competitors and mountains of food, we could do little else but present the prize for a second time to the voracious and very worthy John Bunn.  Congratulations, Mr Bunn ... and we hope the stomach pump worked.  LOL.

John Bunn - in the white (splitting) shirt to the right of the image.

[Maggi Young]

Congratulations to Alan for that Farrer winning plant and to John Bunn for his Pig winning performance - what a day of excitement and success 

The dining room looks pretty posh  for the average PP venue....- how did they let you lot in?
 You must have sent Sue to make the booking?

[ranunculus]

The dining room looks pretty posh  for the average PP venue....- how did they let you lot in?
 You must have sent Sue to make the booking?

They thought we would raise the profile of the place ... it's a wedding, conference venue of repute ... I should have said it WAS a wedding, conference venue of repute.