Mundane News

[Paulus]

My neighbour has just emptied the paddling pool and flooded my patio. I had words again.

 

[Smithbat]

CAn I just say, Diet Coke Chicken for the win! I forgot how lush it is!!

 

[TVC]

Back in Reykjavik, booked into the hotel. It must be food time again.

 

[potsy]

Back in Reykjavik, booked into the hotel. It must be food time again.

Are you having what I had, Holland's potato and meat pie with a side helping of Tesco baked beans?

 

[Gravity Aided]

Sounds really good. I may have to go out and get some next time I'm over by the Jewels. They have it there, not Hollands, but a meat and potato pie. Or I suppose I could make one. When the weather cools in September, I am planning a pork pie attempt.

 

[Reynard]

Totally cream crackered...

Crap night's sleep again, but had an uber fabby day stewarding in the HP section at the Eastern Counties show. Got to cuddle some truly super cats. There were some real time wasters in the entry and it was lovely to meet cats that were so very different to my terrible twosome. Also ended up doing table work once I'd finished stewarding.

Gonna have the pizza I bought yesterday, a brew and then I'll crash out. Not sure how much longer I can stay awake.

 

[Speicher]

What is table work? I have never been to a cat show.

 

[Reynard]

Table work is basically processing the results. The steward takes their judge's results slips to the table. The bods there then put one counterfoil in the master book, the other goes to the people who award the rosettes, prize cards and title certificates. Those all have to be labelled up for the cats' pen numbers and classes. That slip then goes into a tray, where someone else collects it and puts it up on the results board. Then there are other people who take the rosettes, prize cards and certificates and put them on the pens.

 

[Speicher]

That sounds very straight-forward.

 

[Illaveago]

Evening all! We have been to Yeovilton for the air show and had a good day. It got very H O T /warm at one point, I mean a bit of a long point.
I need to sort through my pictures.
I will say that there was a great model of HMS Ark Royal in a tent thing. I think it might have been 1/72 scale, it had all of the aircraft and helicopters on the deck, some with propellers and rotors spinning, even the radar scanners were turning. I asked if it floated and was told that it was actually radio controlled.

 

[Reynard]

You'd be surprised at how often it gets cocked up Some shows are better than others at keeping mistakes to a minimum. I'm lucky that the friend I usually travel to shows with always does the household pet table, and between her and me (doing the dogsbody running around type stuff) we usually get things squared away without problems.

Although today's classics that I spotted while stewarding was a) a sphynx pedigree pet kitten entered into the non-pedigree kitten open class, and b) a pedigree pet kitten entered into one of the adult open classes. Both kittens were actually supposed to be in the same pedigree pet kitten class.

 

[TVC]

Are you having what I had, Holland's potato and meat pie with a side helping of Tesco baked beans?

Not quite, I had a shellfish risotto.

The bad news is that Reykjavik has been discovered by the Americans since I was last here. The centre is now burger bars and fake Irish pubs, there is litter and the local kids seem to have picked up on tagging. I will no longer be recommending the capitol of Iceland, it's like any other European tourist city, such a shame. The rest of the country remains beautiful though.

 

[TVC]

What is table work? I have never been to a cat show.

I think she means waitress.

 

[slowmotion]

My sister's two pigs have been suffering in the hot weather even though they have a shady shelter in a bit of woodland. I replenished their mud bath with some more water this afternoon.

 

[Drago]

Euphemism overload!!!