all
our members a
Merry
Christmas and a Happy New Year
Syds Titbits – December 2015
As
another year closes many of the committee members will be involved in stock
taking and the following week receiving the bulk delivery. This will then be
closely followed by the potato delivery which will then have to be weighed up
into the individual units. All to be ready for the first week of trading in
February.
We were
therefore disappointed to the negative response for our appeal for help. We
shall do our best to provide the best service we can but if you arrive and the Seedbox is closed you should now know why. This is more
likely to happen on a Saturday and we shall do our best to let you know the
week prior.
We are
still looking for assistance and if you can help training is available;
In the
meantime please note the existing Leisure Centre is due to close on the evening
of 5th February and is due to re open on Monday 8th so
there may be a high volume of traffic over the weekend.
On
behalf of all the members of the Executive Committee we wish you all a very
Merry Christmas and a good gardening year for 2016.
Syd Pye
Chairman
Autumn
Show Report
Once again we were blessed with good
weather on show day and there was quite a few people bringing in vegetables and
flowers to exhibit. By the end of staging the hall was filled with a record
number of exhibits, 177 in total, and the two people doing the checking in took
to a quiet corner of the hall to recover leaving the judge to try and complete
his judgments within the hour. Not only were there some excellent flower
exhibits but 3 pumpkins weighing over 95lbs, some seriously heavy marrows,
cabbages, and carrots and 5 foot long Tromboncino
Squashes.
When the public came to look around
there were some excellent cakes for them to enjoy. Thanks to everyone that
helped at the show, exhibited or came to look around.
FGA
Quiz
18 teams took part in our annual quiz
with questions ranging from the Wombles to Film
Musicals and lots of other subjects in between. Congratulations to one of the
teams from the Women's Institute for their win on the evening and I hope
everyone enjoyed themselves. My thanks to everyone who helped, making the
evening run smoothly.
Colin Stennett
Show Secretary
Potato
orders
If
you have not yet placed an order for potatoes come to the Seed Box on a
Saturday afternoon. If we are there (most likely) we can provide an order form
and take your order.
Membership Renewal
Membership
renewals are due by the start of the year. As usual FGA will be extending the
deadline but please make sure you renew tour membership on your next visit to
the Seed Box.
2016
Photography Classes
Note that a mistake was made in the printed and emailed versions of this newsletter
The
photography classes for the 2016 Annual Show are:
103
- Flora 104 - Fauna
105
- People 106 - Buildings
For the
Children’s photography class the subject is ‘Flitwick’.
Dates for your
diary
Saturday 5th February - First
day of Trading
Saturday April 2nd - Spring
Show
Sat/Sun May 7/8th – FGA open
weekend (to be confirmed)
Saturday August 20th - Annual
Show
Saturday October 8th - Autumn
Show
Thursday November 24th - FGA Quiz
Cookery
classes for the Spring Show
At
the Spring Show in April 2016 we’ve decided to continue with two cookery
classes. The first class is ‘A Cheesecake' - whatever flavour you decide to
make. The second class is ‘3 Cheese Scones’. Please try and enter these
classes, as well as all the usual flower classes.