The Fair and Horticultural Show 2013

The Fair and Horticultural show was a great success this year. We had a record attendance and made over £500 for the up keep of St Mary's Church.

At the end of the day Mrs Hazel Chapman and her son Clive presented the prizes and pulled a few raffle tickets out of the hat.

A big thank you to all who organised and took part. Without you all it would not happen.

The Flower Section

The Flower Section

Jams

Children's Garden on a Tray

Yummy Cakes

Not long before the Horticultural Show and Fair

The Village Horticultural Show and Fair is almost upon us, just over a week to go. Saturday 17th August. There are various categories for anyone to enter.

Best Victoria sponge cake

Best garden floral arrangement

Best cupcakes

Best homemade jam or marmalade

Best fruit and vegetables

and for the children the best miniature garden.

Please make sure you check out the rules and regulations of the show which are available to print out from this website, as are the entry forms. Entry forms are also available at the church on the day but entries must be exhibited by 11am ready for judging. There is a small fee of 50p per exhibit into the Show. The Show itself opens to the public at 2pm.

Along with the horticultural, cake and jam exhibits, there will be a nearly new stall, cake stall, plant stall, raffle,simple games

AND

of course tea and cakes to enjoy.

Please make sure to read the rules and regulations available on the website under Downloads. 

www.eastcarletonvillage.co.uk

What? no phone box

Now you see it!!

This to me is a quintessential village scene, the post box, the phone box and a map showing a village walk. But sadly the phone box is no more.

And now you don't!!

 It's such a shame that we have lost the phone box(a K6). I am presuming that BT just came along and removed it without any consultation with the village. I wonder if anyone knows if it is going to be replaced or not. Maybe we will get one of those modern monstrosities. I just hope we can hang onto the post box. At least that has been cleaned.  

The Peacock

Have you Heard the Peacock ?

 

 

He is shouting in the morning and in the evening. Not a problem but the loud shrill raucous shrieks can be heard for some distance. He often comes into the garden in the morning for a look around. He has a look for insects and we occasionally put some bird food out for him. It's a wonderful sight to see him come down from our roof in full flight. He is a big bird and he likes to roam. My neighbor tell me he visits them as well. Let me know [by going to bottom of the page and clicking on Comment] if you see him around East Carleton.

 

 

What a lovely colour blue he is as well. He does like to show off his lovely tail feathers as well.

 

 

Been away for some time so have not been filling the blog in. Since I last blogged the snow has gone and the sun is making an effort to come out. Everything in the garden is flowering when it shouldn’t and some flowers are very late.. My Fuchsias are just about on track. Just a little behind.

I hope this will not impact on my flower display at The 2013 Horticultural Show and Village Fair in St Marys Church East Carleton on the 17^th August at 2pm.

See for more detail the

 

 http://www.eastcarletonvillage.co.uk/index.html

 

 

Keep an eye on the blog for more information. 

Also check the East Carleton website out.

 

Spring is almost here

Now the snow has gone, it gave us a chance to take a few photos of what has been happening under the snow. It never ceases to amaze us how nature still carries on regardless of what the weather throws at it.

These are just a few photos taken around the village to show that Spring is well and truly on its way.

Spring is on its way

I wanted to share with you all, the fact that my broad bean seedlings have survived all of the snow. My Dad, aged 93 and still very fit and well, told me that his father used to plant his broad bean seeds before Christmas, so the frost killed any black fly eggs that appeared on the young seedlings. So as an obedient daughter, I did as my Dad said. One very chilly autumn/winter day I was on the vegetable patch dutifully planting my seeds in very neat rows. A few weeks later, I was passing the vegetable plot, and to my horror, there appeared to be several very neat furrows just where the broad beans seeds should have been. I guessed that a little mouse had been very busy stealing my carefully sown seeds. Another couple of weeks past and Alan came in from the garden, saying my broad beans were doing well, I thought he was joking, but when I went and looked, there, in my neat rows, were the lovely young shoots of my broad beans. Shortly after that the weather forecasters were talking about heavy snow on the way, I was concerned for my young seedlings. While I was out at work one day, Alan kindly found a heavy dark coloured duvet cover and covered the seedlings. I thought they would never survive, not only the weight of the duvet and the snow but also the lack of light through the dark coloured fabric. By this point there was no going back, the seedlings had two chances, survive or perish. So we left them covered for about three weeks. When we finally managed to uncover them, we were asounded to see the young seedlings had survived. As you can see from the photos they are not the strongest looking seedlings but at least they are still with us. Now all we have to do is keep an eye on the weather and keep the duvet cover handy.

                                                                                         

Monday Walk

Had the day off on Monday so decided to take a walk through the village and take a few photos. Although the road was quite safe to drive on, it was still very slushy. The snow on the roadside banks was quite deep in places as I found out when I had to leave the road to make way for passing cars. Would you believe that the only two cars I saw came along at the same time from different directions!! I saw lots of people out and about. People walking dogs, neighbours chatting, several people busy clearing snow from their drives. Not sure what is happening with the road closure. The signs are still up but no sign of any work being carried out, not sure how long the road will be closed for now.

There is no doubt about it, even though the snow had started to thaw a little, and the road looked a little mucky it did make the village look even prettier than it already is.

And finally, I was joined on my walk by one very brave lone jogger. Well done to her!!

 

Thats it for now, but keep an eye on the website, you never know where I will turn up with my camera.

Snow As Promised

The view from the back garden looking up to the bungalow. Just had another big 20 minute snow fall while writing the blog. Tico was having a great time running around in snow.

Sun is now starting to come out.