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summayah



Joined: 14 Apr 2005
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 11:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Good luck Jaydee, hope you're as successful as Jan.

The trouble with entering next year Jan, is you have something to live up to and you can't win the prize for the best newcomer. Perhaps you should put your madeira cake in the recipe section.
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Spana



Joined: 30 Apr 2005
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Location: North Cornwall

PostPosted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 12:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

summayah wrote:
Good luck Jaydee, hope you're as successful as Jan.

The trouble with entering next year Jan, is you have something to live up to and you can't win the prize for the best newcomer. Perhaps you should put your madeira cake in the recipe section.


Yes, but it was such a lovely day it doesn't really matter, and I dont have the time to do anything special, which in a way makes it more enjoyable. Laughing

I could put the madeira cake recipe in recipe section, but i thought it was really boring. Confused I like lots of cream and jam and icing Very Happy
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summayah



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 4:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

But some people can only have plain cakes and madeira is an ideal cake for that ~ nice without being over the top
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Spana



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 8:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh, alright then Laughing But it isn't my recipe, it was in the show schedule so we all made the same cake. Sad
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Fenn



Joined: 16 Jun 2005
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Location: Shrewsbury

PostPosted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 9:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well done Jan Very Happy

This is the downside of living in town - we don't have shows for anything... Rolling Eyes

Can't imagine I'd ever dare enter one, but I like noseying at other people's stuff Laughing
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CP
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Joined: 13 Apr 2005
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Location: Hampshire

PostPosted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 9:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

We have a local one in our village every year, but I've never dared enter anything. Embarassed
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summayah



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 10:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Now you've admitted they have one in your village cp ~ you'll just have to enter it now, like all these other brave people. We don't have one, thankfully ~ I think it tends to be a village thing.
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CP
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 10:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I could always pretend to be King Alfred, I suppose! To funny
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summayah



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 1:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No, sorry, that won't be acceptable.
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Attila The Hen



Joined: 19 Sep 2005
Posts: 440
Location: Shetland

PostPosted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 4:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

jaydee67 wrote:
Well done Jan, our show is next weekend and the kids have entered birds, rabbits, baking, etc - I've entered the photo section for the first time, just ahve to choose my pics now!


Ah, this is such bad news for me! I've been beaten in past years by your family in the livestock and egg classes... and now you're going for photos as well... my photo entries are doomed I tell you, doomed!!

Good luck, and we'll doubtless see you there. Hope this rain clears off though... shall be bringing a 4x4, not the useless rear wheel drive nonsense, if the field's as muddy as I suspect it'll be. Smile

Attila
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jaydee67
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Location: Shetland Islands

PostPosted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You can always park outside my house - we have nice hard tarmac! lol!
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jaydee67
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 9:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My son tells me your egg entries are impressive - Craig has only entered green eggs, duck eggs and bantams so you have no competition in the other sections! Wink Until next year when my welsummers are laying of course! lol!
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Attila The Hen



Joined: 19 Sep 2005
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Location: Shetland

PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

jaydee67 wrote:
My son tells me your egg entries are impressive - Craig has only entered green eggs, duck eggs and bantams so you have no competition in the other sections! Wink Until next year when my welsummers are laying of course! lol!


I'm glad David was impressed! I've got green, white and brown egg entries - am v proud of the brown (obviously!), but the green should be interesting - only managed 3rd last year, but these ones are darker shelled, so we'll see how they do. Have hatched a cross of the mother with a copper/black maran dad this summer, so will be interesting to see if the dark eggshell maran gene can be used to darken the dominant green gene over successive generations.

As for the white eggs - did you see the one and only entry in that class last year - it won (unsurprisingly!), but the eggs weren't even white! Rolling Eyes More a dark cream. Have got exchequer leghorns that have pulled out all the stops to produce some gleaming white beauties!

My ducks have all stopped laying as usual. Grr...

Good luck!!

Attila
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jaydee67
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

W've hatched exchequor leghorns this year, my maran egg supplier was awol so I got the welsummers instead! Wink Our khaki campbells seem to lay all year, although we are only getting 3 eggs from teh 4 of them at the moment. Maybe I will enter eggs next year - Craig can't claim the welsummers and leghorns! Wink
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Attila The Hen



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PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 11:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, my apologies about the marans - I had rather a lot of distractions on my plate with the baby!

Attila
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