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Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: Fowgill Farm on July 13, 2011, 09:42:14 am
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Once again we'll be taking our pigs to some of the shows around Yorkshire this summer ( the infamous Clover will be with us! ;D) so we thought it would be a good idea to let you know where we'll be so you can come and say hello.
Driffield Show (East Yorks)Wed 20th July
Ryedale Show ( near Kirkbymoorside/Pickering) Tuesday 26th July
Thornton-le-Dale (near Scarborough) Wed 3rd August
Tockwith Show (nr Wetherby) Sat 6th August
Ripley Show (nr Harrogate) Sun 14th August
Egton Show (nr Whitby) Wed 24th August
Penistone Show (just out of Yorkshire nr Holmfirth) Sat 10th September
Nidderdale (Pateley Bridge, Harrogate) Mon 19th September
Please do come and say hi, always happy to talk especially piggy!
Look forward to seeing you
Mandy :pig:
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Should be at Penistone with the ponies. But the in hand class is very early - 8.30am I think. Going to be a big rush of feedng animals to get there for that time.
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I know what you mean, pigs have to be on showground by 9am for Driffield next week which means we'll need to leave home at 7am so the other piggies & dog will be getting an early awakening for breakfast!! ;D same again when we go to Penistone.
Look forward to seeing you there
Mandy :pig:
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I will definitely come and find you .... we are about an hour or so from Penistone, so will be up with the larks (or before!)and the mornings will be getting darker by then .......still once we have done our classes, we have the day free to look round the show!!!
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Driffield tomorrow so we will be mainly bathing Clover & Trixie this afternoon in gallons of warm water & Johnson's baby shampoo(we should have shares!!), then its packing up the truck for an early start tomorrow morning.
Sounds like the weather is going to be iffy so waterproofs all round!
Mandy :pig:
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Good luck, and hope the rain holds off for you!!
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now i am very curious with this new poster on another web site (same avatar) you are listed as anne mclanndish am i right :o :o
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Definetly not me Robert.
Got a 3rd & 4th at Driffield, dry for showing in the morning but it persisited down all afternoon. Good day apart from forgetting the coll box!!!! £9.50 for 2 chip butties & a baocn roll!!! Will never forget picnic again.
Mandy :pig:
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Just a quick note to say we won't be at Thornton Le Dale tomorrow as Twinkle the hippo pig has not farrowed yet but looks imminent! ;D
Mandy :pig:
Ps Clover got 2nd last week at Ryedale and her photo in the York Evening Press!
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Went to Ripley last Sunday and poor Clover was pounced on by a very nasty OSB, poor Clover was very shook up and at least had the sense to run away to the other side of the show ring, has a couple of nasty bites on her neck! Bit swollen but healing.
Will be at Egton show next week, so hope she has a better time should be a good day out. Fingers crossed for nice weather.
Mandy :pig:
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Hi
sorry to appear thick, but what's OSB? thought of lots of possibilities but I'm know it will be obvious. :-)
How is Clover?
might get to Penistone, planning on getting to Nidderdale.
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Oxford Sandy and Black :pig:
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as I said - obvious now :)
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Clover doing fine, will be at Penistone this coming weekend so if anyone's going do come and see us in the pig tent.
Super show too.
Mandy :pig: :wave:
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now i am very curious with this new poster on another web site (same avatar) you are listed as anne mclanndish am i right :o :o
I also recognised the avitar of anne mclanndish on the other web site, one wonders where she has gone :farmer: :farmer:
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Well thats the show season over for another year.
Its been lovely to meet some of you (Cinderhills & PennineHilly Billy yesterday at Nidderdale) and we hope we've educated a few people about smallholding/pig keeping. Even nearly had two vegetarians converted yesterday! And we had a channel 4 film crew and Kirstie Allsopp learning to show GOS pigs too so all good fun.
We look forward to meeting more of you next year.
Mandy :pig: :wave:
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come on you are just waiting for someone to ask how you fared at all the shows ???????? :farmer:
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come on you are just waiting for someone to ask how you fared at all the shows ???????? :farmer:
Plus, what programme was Kirsty filming and please let us know when it's on!
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Don't know the name of the programme but will be aired on C4 around 30th Nov.
We haven't had that good a year pig wise, our Januaries weren't good enough to show so we've taken the older girls who've managed a few seconds & thirds and one first at Egton (not many pigs there!) so really its been a learning year. Hopefully Clover is full of some good Januaries and we already have a decent looking July coming thro so fingers crossed. We love going to the shows, it hard work but rewarding, we meet some great folk and its good for my 9yr old niece as she's quite a shy wee thing, going showing means she had to talk to people & judges and learn how to socialise. She got first prize yesterday in the children's classes with her chocolate cakes. :trophy:
All in all not a bad year. :)
Mandy :pig:
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It was lovely to meet you too. Congrats to your niece.
The Yorkshire Post says filming was for "Kirstie's Handmade Britain" programme.
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OK so can someone remind us (me) to watch Kirsty's Handmade Britain at the end of Nov? (Please)
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I'll make a note on my calendar. I did like her Homemade Home series so really want to watch this.
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Good to meet you Mandy, shame I couldn't see your OSB's but the piglets were cute! Looking forward to seeing the TV programme, I kept seeing cameras and microphones round the show, were there others filming or did you only see 'Kirsty's gang'?
It's quite a few years since I've managed to get to Nidderdale show, I hoped to see more 'farmers' :farmer: stands, not the number of clothes/sweeties/hog roast stands that seem to outnumber the useful type :(
congrats to your neice, there were some very good entries in the classes.
Maybe somebody can remind us if they see Kirstys programme in the TV listings?
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I've put a note in my diary to remind myself so i'll post when its on!
We only saw Kirsty's lot but the Yorkshire post crew were doing the rounds too.
Know what you mean about the stands shows are getting more and more like general markets as agricultural companies go to the more specialised shows like LAMMA, cereals & grass&muck etc. Also alot of them have had their entertaining budgets slashed.
We got a mention in the Northern Echo!
Bestest mandy :pig:
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Know what you mean about the stands shows are getting more and more like general markets as agricultural companies go to the more specialised shows like LAMMA, cereals & grass&muck etc. Also alot of them have had their entertaining budgets slashed.
I managed to drag BH to North Sheep this year and we both thoroughly enjoyed it. Real agricultural stands, lots of educational and interesting stuff as well as many breeds of sheep on show with knowledgeable people to talk about them. Mind, if you wanted to buy a wax jacket or pair of wellies you wouldn't have had a great deal of choice - but you could have got some.
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I've put a note in my diary to remind myself so i'll post when its on!
We only saw Kirsty's lot but the Yorkshire post crew were doing the rounds too.
Know what you mean about the stands shows are getting more and more like general markets as agricultural companies go to the more specialised shows like LAMMA, cereals & grass&muck etc. Also alot of them have had their entertaining budgets slashed.
We got a mention in the Northern Echo!
Bestest mandy :pig:
Wheres the reminder Mandy ;D
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is that the programme that is on tonight :thumbsup: :farmer: :thumbsup:
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Sorry about the reminder folks been a bit tied up with BPA stuff and life generally.
Watched the prog very good, saw myself hovering in back! not pretty sight but the piggy part came across very well.
Mandy :pig:
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What a lot of celebrities we had on telly this week!
So - were those your pigs, and your daughter, Mandy?
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No they're not my pigs and the young lady is not my daughter though i would be very proud if she were. Her name is Sarah Whitley and she hales from Harrogate and she is up & coming in the GOS world and did very well during last years show season. She is a lovely girl and its the 2nd time she's been mistaken for my daughter as we go around a lot together at the shows, i keep an eye on her if her mum & dad are busy with other stuff (they have a jersey cow milk ice cream business google Birchfield ice cream) Lat year Sarah and my niece Anya and i were all sat underneath a waterproof shelter hiding from the rain when a member of the public stuck their head under and said oh girls you and your mum look nice and dry, needless to say Sarah & Anya fell about laughing, its because we're all blonde with ponytails and all have spotty pigs! I don't have any children of my own so i enjoy these two's company.
Best mandy :pig: