What I didn’t like is that you hand over your entry for judging, and then the show officials take on the task of staging your exhibit. I have to say the staging was such rubbish that I couldn’t find the exhibit that won first prize in the class I’d entered. In addition, the county is so large that it’s all anonymous. You’d have to enter for years before you began to have an inkling of who your competitors were.
Spencer might have given some people a run for their money this year with a cabbage he grew. In order to encourage children, some organization or other provided these vegetable starts to school children and devised a competition to see who could grow the biggest cabbage. Having never grown cabbage before (I’ve always rather felt with cabbage, there was not much point for some reason), I am amazed at the size of this thing. You can see that the slugs were also very appreciative.
I've started a bit of volunteering. A couple of hours a week at the library, and during August, at ‘The High Plains Environmental Center’, which undertakes work comparable to that at the wonderful Bore Place, which I still miss daily. Hoping in either case that the volunteering may lead to paid work at some stage, but I’m not exactly holding my breath. We were told this month that the recession officially ended LAST July. As the news itself took a year to trickle down, I’m rather thinking that it will take another year for the reality to do so, and perhaps by this time next year, a job will come begging. Ho!
