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Fowgill Farm

  • Joined Feb 2009
Re: Come & Say Hello in Yorkshire
« Reply #15 on: September 20, 2011, 09:21:00 am »
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:

robert waddell

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Re: Come & Say Hello in Yorkshire
« Reply #16 on: September 20, 2011, 10:00:26 am »
come on you are just waiting for someone to ask how you fared at all the shows ???????? :farmer:

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Come & Say Hello in Yorkshire
« Reply #17 on: September 20, 2011, 10:12:29 am »
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!
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

Fowgill Farm

  • Joined Feb 2009
Re: Come & Say Hello in Yorkshire
« Reply #18 on: September 20, 2011, 10:19:34 am »
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:

Cinderhills

  • Joined Jul 2010
  • North Yorkshire
Re: Come & Say Hello in Yorkshire
« Reply #19 on: September 20, 2011, 11:12:41 am »
It was lovely to meet you too.  Congrats to your niece.

The Yorkshire Post says filming was for "Kirstie's Handmade Britain" programme.

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
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Re: Come & Say Hello in Yorkshire
« Reply #20 on: September 20, 2011, 02:09:12 pm »
OK so can someone remind us (me) to watch Kirsty's Handmade Britain at the end of Nov?  (Please)
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

Cinderhills

  • Joined Jul 2010
  • North Yorkshire
Re: Come & Say Hello in Yorkshire
« Reply #21 on: September 20, 2011, 02:38:40 pm »
I'll make a note on my calendar.  I did like her Homemade Home series so really want to watch this.

Penninehillbilly

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • West Yorks
Re: Come & Say Hello in Yorkshire
« Reply #22 on: September 20, 2011, 10:33:11 pm »
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?

Fowgill Farm

  • Joined Feb 2009
Re: Come & Say Hello in Yorkshire
« Reply #23 on: September 21, 2011, 09:26:24 am »
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:

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
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Re: Come & Say Hello in Yorkshire
« Reply #24 on: September 21, 2011, 05:23:42 pm »
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.
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

Penninehillbilly

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • West Yorks
Re: Come & Say Hello in Yorkshire
« Reply #25 on: November 30, 2011, 02:39:44 pm »
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

robert waddell

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Re: Come & Say Hello in Yorkshire
« Reply #26 on: November 30, 2011, 05:13:49 pm »
is that the programme that is on tonight :thumbsup: :farmer: :thumbsup:

Fowgill Farm

  • Joined Feb 2009
Re: Come & Say Hello in Yorkshire
« Reply #27 on: December 02, 2011, 10:27:57 am »
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:

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
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Re: Come & Say Hello in Yorkshire
« Reply #28 on: December 03, 2011, 08:38:35 pm »
What a lot of celebrities we had on telly this week! 

So - were those your pigs, and your daughter, Mandy? 
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

Fowgill Farm

  • Joined Feb 2009
Re: Come & Say Hello in Yorkshire
« Reply #29 on: December 06, 2011, 10:48:53 am »
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:

 

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