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Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
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Silverware
« on: March 14, 2012, 07:35:34 pm »
Here's the Scottish Smallholder and Grower Festival's first silverware - the Rosedean Salver for the best Coloured Ryeland.

We'd be very happy to recieve other prizes for the Festival  :trophy:

Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: Silverware
« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2012, 12:36:47 am »
Very smart  :trophy: :thumbsup:   
I'm still scratching my head for a suitable trophy for the best horns. I thought of a glass block with a horny sheep inside, but I could never keep up on the mortgage repayments if I commissioned that  ::) 
 Any ideas for something which won't break the bank but is still appropriate?
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SallyintNorth

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Re: Silverware
« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2012, 12:44:27 am »
I'm still scratching my head for a suitable trophy for the best horns. I thought of a glass block with a horny sheep inside, but I could never keep up on the mortgage repayments if I commissioned that  ::) 
 Any ideas for something which won't break the bank but is still appropriate?
I suppose it couldn't be a real set of horns, since that would relate to one breed specifically.  Could someone arty crafty come up with something made from horns that evoked horns but wasn't breed or type specific?   Else, a unicorn!   :D
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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

HappyHippy

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Re: Silverware
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2012, 07:44:59 am »
What about a fancy horn crook ?
Just thinking out loud, so feel free to ignore me  :D

Rosemary - the salver is cracking  :thumbsup:

Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: Silverware
« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2012, 08:54:58 am »
What about a fancy horn crook ?
Just thinking out loud, so feel free to ignore me  :D

Rosemary - the salver is cracking  :thumbsup:

Hmm, a fancy crook might be hard to get back from the winner each year  ;D

Yes, really pleased with it. It's from The Angus Trophy Centre in Carnoustie - really nice bloke and he's done a really good job with the engraving.

robert waddell

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Re: Silverware
« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2012, 07:33:17 pm »
i have a couple of horns from jersey cows      any use :farmer:

doganjo

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Re: Silverware
« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2012, 08:10:52 pm »
Rosemary - the salver is cracking  :thumbsup:
It looked perfectly sound to me  ;) ;D
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Brucklay

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Re: Silverware
« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2012, 08:12:26 pm »
Will be in touch - I'll get something for one goat section (Pygmy milker if there is one or pygmy kid)
Pygmy Goats, Shetland Sheep, Zip & Indie the Border Collies, BeeBee the cat and a wreak of a building to renovate!!

Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
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Re: Silverware
« Reply #8 on: March 16, 2012, 01:05:49 am »
i have a couple of horns from jersey cows      any use :farmer:

Now that's a question - Rosemary, is the best horns section for just sheep, or for goats  :goat:, cattle  :cow:, little devils  :reindeer: and anything else with horns?

Thank you Robert  :wave:, but I have lots of horns, some curly, some straight - mostly black as you can imagine, and Sally - a unicorn I can do  ;D  :thumbsup:.  So now I'm thinking along the lines of a Viking drinking horn..........maybe your jersey horn might be best for that after all Robert.  Will have to discuss with Him-indoors  ;)
"Let's not talk about what we can do, but do what we can"

There is NO planet B - what are YOU doing to save our home?

Do something today that your future self will thank you for - plant a tree

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Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: Silverware
« Reply #9 on: March 16, 2012, 09:14:17 am »
Just sheep.

Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
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Re: Silverware
« Reply #10 on: March 16, 2012, 11:04:58 am »
"Let's not talk about what we can do, but do what we can"

There is NO planet B - what are YOU doing to save our home?

Do something today that your future self will thank you for - plant a tree

 Love your soil - it's the lifeblood of your land.

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Silverware
« Reply #11 on: March 16, 2012, 01:43:44 pm »
So now I'm thinking along the lines of a Viking drinking horn..........
Love it! :thumbsup:
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

Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
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Re: Silverware
« Reply #12 on: March 16, 2012, 11:44:38 pm »
So now I'm thinking along the lines of a Viking drinking horn..........
Love it! :thumbsup:

So now you'll have to bring a horny sheep to win it  :trophy: ;D ;D :wave:

Pic will follow once I've got one.
"Let's not talk about what we can do, but do what we can"

There is NO planet B - what are YOU doing to save our home?

Do something today that your future self will thank you for - plant a tree

 Love your soil - it's the lifeblood of your land.

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Silverware
« Reply #13 on: March 17, 2012, 02:48:36 am »
So now I'm thinking along the lines of a Viking drinking horn..........
Love it! :thumbsup:

So now you'll have to bring a horny sheep to win it  :trophy: ;D ;D :wave:

 ;D ;D ;D
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

Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: Silverware
« Reply #14 on: March 19, 2012, 11:04:02 am »

 

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