AGS Harrogate Show 26 April 2008

[SueG]

Now that's what I can downright unfair taking pictures when i'm concentrating that hard!! Still when I've got nice warm hands from my gloves . . . and no dropped stitches (yet!).
There were some great plants in the AGS show and Chris had left a few for us to buy!
A couple of my favourites after an 'I don't believe it' moment
This is flower arranging!!!! Argghh
Paris quadrifolia - the plant I'd most like to take home if there was a fire. . .
and a beautifully colour matched trio

Sue

[Maggi Young]

OH! It's a flower arrangement  ..... .... I thought it was the decoration from the top of the Picnickers chocolate cake, before Shelagh S. got to it

As to the well matched three pan entry.... I DO like it when there is a real attempt to make a fully balanced entry, size, colour, presentation.... looks so good when it is done like that.

But, Sue, why do you feel the need for sludge -green gloves? I thought you'd go for something rather brighter??

[SueG]

colour resolution must be poor in Aberdeen tonight - it's sea green, hand spun and dyed silk and alpaca - not sludge green - the light in the show hall was odd so maybe that's it

[Maggi Young]

colour resolution must be poor in Aberdeen tonight - it's sea green, hand spun and dyed silk and alpaca - not sludge green - the light in the show hall was odd so maybe that's it

Probably my fault.... I didn't think somehow you'd favour sludge green..... mind you , with all the pollution there is about these days, who's to say what colour the sea is??!!    You do enjoy your luxury textiles, don't you? And why not , indeed.... good to give those silk moths  and alpacas work 

[Martinr]

Ooh, it's hard suffering from camera deprivation so thanks to those who did have working equipment. I note Diane doesn't say who was about to scoff the big plate of chips sitting on the picnic table!

Sue's new gloves will look nice in what were gentle shades but I wish she'd taken the advice to use knitting needles instead of cocktail sticks! Life is too short.

And finally...Sue, what about that pattern for knitting Daleks?

Now I'm of to the digital photography threads to figure out what new camera to buy.

[Maggi Young]

AHA!  I thought as much... I'd spotted the tasty looking chips on the table 

We just thought Sue was knitting with cocktail sticks because having spent so much on the luxury wool, she couldn't afford  metal needles.
 By the way, Martin, apropos nothing at all, certainly nothing to do with any comments you may have made in the past..... Ian's beloved Uncle Arthur, (who was a police inspector in Scarborough, though this has no bearing on the story) used to tell Ian when he was a little boy that if he rubbed the greasy chip paper on his chest ,  he would grow a wonderful hairy chest...........
!

[annew]

And?

[Maggi Young]

Well, Anne, in Ian's case, that's for me to know and you to wonder.......
As for Martin, we'll have to wait and see, but.... here's a hint.......
 Specific Genera / Primula / Re: Primula-February to April 2008  on: April 09, 2008, 06:19:58 PM   

[Martinr]

The question is....no I won't ask, it's personal. Instead, did the chips have to wrapped in a specific newspaper?

[Martinr]

Re hint...yes but I didn't say where I'd lost it or gained it did I. I've come to the conclusion that going thin on top isn't losing hair, it merley sinks due to gravity and pops out elsewhere!

[Diane Clement]

Now that's what I can downright unfair taking pictures when i'm concentrating that hard!!

Sorry Sue, it was the complete concentration that caught my eye.  Wonderful!  

[Maggi Young]

The question is....no I won't ask, it's personal. Instead, did the chips have to wrapped in a specific newspaper?

I believe any local newspaper will do the trick, Martin.
Not sure if the fancy pre-formed trays that seem to have been used in Harrogate will work... you can but try though, eh?

[Maggi Young]

I've come to the conclusion that going thin on top isn't losing hair, it merely sinks due to gravity and pops out elsewhere!

Ooh, er!
 Since women of a certain age are predisposed to become the "bearded Lady" I shall refrain from further comment and go back to admiring the plants.

I must say I thought all the nursery displays shown by Diane were just super... not much wonder there was lots of shopping to be done 

[Diane Clement]

Enough of this frivolity, back to the pictures
Part of Alan Spenceley's large 3 pan
Anemone lipiensis
Erythronium californicum White Beauty

[Diane Clement]

The previous exhibit only got second place, outdone by Tony Lee's winning trio
Sedum humifusum
Androsace studiosorum and
Trillium ludovicianum