Goodness me, I can hardly bear the suspense!
It’s the Hill show tomorrow & due to a prior engagement I could only nip to the Hill this morning to drop in the entry form.
I’ve now got a marble cake to be proud of (at last – I had four bloody goes at it!), & the beetroot, carrot & runner beans are all entered.
I’d planned to pick the runners in the morning so they would be really fresh, but Reg-next-plot & Barry both drew a sharp intake of breath at this news – apparently you pick them the day before, & store in damp newspaper (‘bound up tight with a couple of short canes – makes ‘em straight’ winked Reg).
So in the dusk tonight I’ve picked a carrier bag full & sorted out 16 likely candidates – couldn’t make my mind up beyond that – so all 16 are swaddled tightly in damp newspaper in the bottom of the fridge (hope that’s ok – forgot to ask where to keep them overnight!)
In the morning go down & pick, scrub & trim 3 beetroot, & pick enough carrots to get 3 nice even ones for scrubbing & trimming (probably all of them, then!). I’ll pick mum & her sponge cake up & the marble cake & we’ll go & ‘stage the exhibits!’
Judging is at 2 till 4.30pm, so we’ll go back with baited breath to see how we’ve got on….
It’s the Hill show tomorrow & due to a prior engagement I could only nip to the Hill this morning to drop in the entry form.
I’ve now got a marble cake to be proud of (at last – I had four bloody goes at it!), & the beetroot, carrot & runner beans are all entered.
I’d planned to pick the runners in the morning so they would be really fresh, but Reg-next-plot & Barry both drew a sharp intake of breath at this news – apparently you pick them the day before, & store in damp newspaper (‘bound up tight with a couple of short canes – makes ‘em straight’ winked Reg).So in the dusk tonight I’ve picked a carrier bag full & sorted out 16 likely candidates – couldn’t make my mind up beyond that – so all 16 are swaddled tightly in damp newspaper in the bottom of the fridge (hope that’s ok – forgot to ask where to keep them overnight!)
In the morning go down & pick, scrub & trim 3 beetroot, & pick enough carrots to get 3 nice even ones for scrubbing & trimming (probably all of them, then!). I’ll pick mum & her sponge cake up & the marble cake & we’ll go & ‘stage the exhibits!’
Judging is at 2 till 4.30pm, so we’ll go back with baited breath to see how we’ve got on….
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