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Saturday, July 14, 2007

Kent Show 2007 - overview

Our first visit to the Kent Show at Detling, and a great day out for us and the other 50,000 or so who were there. More pictures (86 altogether!) from today on Flickr.
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Agricultural exhibits included a wide range of sheep, goats, cows, poultry, rabbit and horses, oh yes and llamas and alpacas - and a blacksmithing contest.
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And some sort of elephant hiding inside a bull costume. I mean how big does a bull need to be for goodness sake?
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The vintage section had the Detling steam fair and as many hissing, steaming bits of cast iron as you could shake a stick at, as well as a proper funfair. One with fairground organs. And a proper carousel.
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And a vulture.
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And raspberries.
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And a dalek. It was a day of variety . . .
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And of course the steam. I have a few more pictures of the steam - both the engines and the vintage funfair, and you can see them (and the other usable pictures I took today) on Flickr.

And then I found myself enjoying a flower show. Unbelieeeevable. But the Bonsai and Fuschia sections were amazing. The bonsai display from The Bonsai Shop in Whitstable was a particular treat.
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The spitfire gave us a great display over the Parade of Steam, which seemed to satisfy pretty much everyone.
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And later on there was that flying advert plane again - everywhere I go, he goes. I'm starting to wonder...
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Show jumping, birds of prey, a spitfire for a few minutes and an aerial advertisment for a few minutes more, plus food, shopping, sunshine and - did I mention - crowds. Brilliant day. These are my favourite pictures of the day - you can go direct to my Flickr Set and see the lot as a slideshow if you're a real glutton for punishment.
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And venturing in to the judging tents, it was nice to see a Ramsgate address on the label of the honey that won first prize. K P Flynn, whoever you might be, well done!
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Oh yes, and thumbs up for organisation - no traffic problems, sensible parking, enough toilets, bins and catering, it all looked like an amazing triumph of planning. But then I suppose they have done it once or twice before... And we even found the car without difficulty. Grand.
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And finally... in the spirit of completely unnecessary and intrusive celebrity spotting, TV auction man Michael Hogben clearly enjoyed the floral displays - but so did we all!
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1 comment:

ZumiWeb said...

I know it's crass to comment on your own stuff but I posted this at 7.15 this evening. At 10.00 it's coming up in Google for searches for "Detling Steam Fair" or "Kent Show 2007". Amazing. Groovy. Scary.