Thanks to persuasive Marcia Scott " le Salon du Jardin d' été " is being sponsored by Unicor. That takes a bit of pressure off the funding situation.
Today I have been sending out the information for judges and what an interesting panel we will have.
In French our experts are called " jurés"
Seven are French, six are English and one is Dutch and the President of the Show is Jean Donies from Les Jardins de Quercy.
I have also spoken on the phone today to Ross Keightley, the man from Caylus who grows big vegetables. He was very enthuisiastic and hopes next year to be on the team. For this year he will bring some of his ordinary vegetables, his monsters will not be produced till later in the year.
I did not know that at Caylus they have a biggest pumpkin competition and if I am right last year first, second and third prize went to a gardener from Varen, but this is of course in the autumn.
Tomorrow is our photo shoot for the Depeche and we have a new member of the team from Parisot, Debra Okitikpi. Her skills on display and organising will be a welcome and useful addition.
We also have willing and able volunteers for the night before to help set up and on the busy morning to take inscriptions. We will have a get together soon ladies, to run through procedure.
Hope all your vegetables and flowers are doing well, your patchwork just needs the last stitches and the last brush of paint will soon be on that masterpiece for the show.
So many categories, that there really should be something for everyone.
A rather miserable reader wondered why we needed to do the show. Well do you know, it is called having fun, having something different to do and because we are all working together in something we all believe will benefit our village, and that is good enough for me.
I am longing to know who will win prizes and who will be the overall Champion of the Show and remembering everyone who enters is a WINNER just for participating.
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