The show season has started. I think that the Shapinsay show was the first the other day and it all builds up to the County Show next saturday.
Today it was the turn of the East Mainland Show.
We had nothing entered in the show as it is for east Mainland rsidents only but we toddled over to have a look round especially at the poultry to see what competition we may be up against at the county show.
Somebody who shall not be named (but who is my daughter), rather foolishly bought Harry a bubble gun so that everyone within range got covered in bubbles.
Fortunately after a while it ran out of bubbles before Harry found the tractor display. He was very taken with the tractors because the children were allowed to climb into the cabs and mess around.
He was however very disparaging about a little grey Fergy that had done a charity run from Lands End to John o Groats for a local charity. The boy has no taste.
Why is it with kids that bigger is always better.
We were a bit encouraged that our chickens would compare well with those at the East mainland show.
We are taking an Orpington cockerel and hen to the Burray and South Ronaldsay show on Wednesday. The cockerel has already had a good bath to get him nice and clean but we have not yet done the hen as we were not sure which one to take. We have now decided, as all the others are moulting it was an easy decision and so she has had a bath today after we got home. She only had a quick rinse as I did not want to take the oil out of her feathers because she will not have time to re-oil herself before the show.
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