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[wateroverstone]

 I started today with a small win. For the first time since mid- April I have managed to get my favourite battered  boots on by myself. This means that I must have more movement in my affected foot. I am ridiculously cheered by this small improvement. 
It's been quite a good weekend: it was the village Garden Show on Saturday and I am irrationally fascinated by the giant veg grown for it. The marrows were huge this year! I entered very little this year just a cross stitch and a few cards but I got a first and a third so that paid the entry fee for daughter Emma and myself. I usually do well with photographs in the handicrafts  and art category but I haven't taken many recently ( the difference between a pocket camera which went everywhere with me and a basic dslr which is a considered addition to the pile of stuff which accompanies me everywhere.) and I couldn't face trawling through the archives of photos on the computer. Next year I will be organised. I say this every year. I nostalgically visited the vegetable monsters in the children's class and remembered my early morning trips to Tesco to buy huge quantities of useful veg to make these with the kids on the morning of the show. From memory eyes were  always grapes skewered to carrot coins. I was very pleased that a small child named Bertie did well in the Children's classes. After the prize giving, many of the vegetable and flower exhibits are auctioned off for Charity so I spent yesterday making my traditional marrow casserole using  a marrow from the show ( not one of the giant monsters weighing in the tens of pounds)
I haven't filled my bird feeder  up for a while as the pigeons from the house across the road had found it and were behaving thuggishly ,  making  it swing so wildly the seed spilled out and then there was bird flu in the area.. I filled it yesterday and have just seen the first sparrow sampling its wares so hopefully  all the little birds will come back to it soon

Comments

[sheron]

Wow those are huge!!

[wateroverstone]

From memory, the biggest was 89lb, heavier than a small child

[philomytha]

Giant vegetables are so incredible, they're always one of the best bits of village shows. And well done on your prizes too!

[wateroverstone]

Thank you. There was a moment's panic on Friday when I couldn't find last year's trophy to return.Some of the growers will pass on spare seed for giant vegetables . I have no vegetable growing skills at all but I'm always tempted to ask for some.

[rachelmanija]

Getting boots on is very important!

Those are some Marrows of Unusual Size.

[wateroverstone]

It fascinates me how knobbly and wartythe giant marrows become compared to the smooth skinned regular sized ones

[black_bentley]

Well done on your prizes, and I hope the sensibly-sized marrow casserole turned out nicely :D and it's nice you've got the little birds back on the feeder, it's no fun when a couple of big bruisers ruin it for the rest...

[wateroverstone]

My marrow casserole is gorgeous. It will feed me for a couple of days. I miss all the birds at my last house. It was more rural so I go far more as well as red squirrels.

[sholio]

Those are indeed some amazing vegetables. I'm glad it was a good time!

[wateroverstone]

I love village fetes and garden shows and I'm lucky to live in such an old fashioned place that they are held regularly

[hyarrowen]

The marrrow train is impressive!

[wateroverstone]

It is. I like 'marrow train' as a descriptive. I want all the marrows to be topped with little vegetable jockeys to show that they are racing to victory.