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Post by Chuckles on Oct 7, 2007 6:33:33 GMT
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Post by Plocket on Oct 7, 2007 17:43:48 GMT
Oh what fun! What was it like?
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Post by Chuckles on Oct 7, 2007 18:27:43 GMT
Oh what fun! What was it like? Had a fab time thanks P. It was nice and quiet first thing and we (sister and I) arrived at 10.30 on a free bus they had laid on from our local town. Entry was £7.50 at the gate but pre bought tickets were £6.50 I think. We had free tickets so that was good ;D The guy at the entrance tried to wind me up and say the tickets I'd got were only valid for Saturday  I nearly had a fit. By lunch time it had really filled up and when we left at around 2pm it was heaving  Loads and loads of stands, yummy food to taste and buy, all manner of kitchen gadgets, pans, pots. Bought some Goats Cheese, Spicy Red Current Jelly, a huge Spicy Apple Cake and 4 different types of Garlic to plant in the garden. Celeb chefs were there too, Clarissa Dickson Wright was signing books, just as cruffy as ever  but I like her  Jean-Christophe Novelli too although I didn't manage to catch a glimse of him, the sound of his voice does it for me  others were Aaron Patterson, Rachel Green Chris Wiley, Teresa Bovey and Stephen Hallam. They were doing demo's but it was busy so we didn't have a peek at them. As well as food stands there were some craft type stands, jewelery, knitted garments, handbags, country crafts like sticks with nice tops on etc etc etc. All round a really good show, one of the better ones I've been to. Did one at Lincoln show ground last year but this one was better IMO. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2007 19:39:31 GMT
Oh what fun! What was it like? Had a fab time thanks P. It was nice and quiet first thing and we (sister and I) arrived at 10.30 on a free bus they had laid on from our local town. Entry was £7.50 at the gate but pre bought tickets were £6.50 I think. We had free tickets so that was good ;D The guy at the entrance tried to wind me up and say the tickets I'd got were only valid for Saturday I nearly had a fit. By lunch time it had really filled up and when we left at around 2pm it was heaving Loads and loads of stands, yummy food to taste and buy, all manner of kitchen gadgets, pans, pots. Bought some Goats Cheese, Spicy Red Current Jelly, a huge Spicy Apple Cake and 4 different types of Garlic to plant in the garden. Celeb chefs were there too, Clarissa Dickson Wright was signing books, just as cruffy as ever but I like her Jean-Christophe Novelli too although I didn't manage to catch a glimse of him, the sound of his voice does it for me others were Aaron Patterson, Rachel Green Chris Wiley, Teresa Bovey and Stephen Hallam. They were doing demo's but it was busy so we didn't have a peek at them. As well as food stands there were some craft type stands, jewelery, knitted garments, handbags, country crafts like sticks with nice tops on etc etc etc. All round a really good show, one of the better ones I've been to. Did one at Lincoln show ground last year but this one was better IMO. Me Too Chuckles.......Jean Christophe and Thierry Henri in the same room......I wouldn't know which way to turn ;D Sounds like a good day, and Garlic to plant aswell....just like a trip to a GC ;D |
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Post by Plocket on Oct 7, 2007 20:23:43 GMT
Oh it sounds fantastic Chuckles - I'm rather jealous but I'm so glad you had a good time. Did you spend a fortune then, or were things reasonably priced?
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Post by Chuckles on Oct 7, 2007 21:22:48 GMT
I was quite good with the pennies really P although most stuff was expensive as you'd imagine. Always is at these types of events  225g of Goats Cheese was £3.25 The Spicy Red Currant Jelly was only £1.40 of the WI stall, always good value from the WI 4 Garlic £6 Spicy Apple cake £5 roughly 8" x 4" The biggest rip off was a hot chocolate drink I had £2 |
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Post by Plocket on Oct 8, 2007 7:00:09 GMT
OMG £2 for a hot chocolate!!! At least you had a good time though. Is the Food Fair on every year? I would love to go to something like that.
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Post by Chuckles on Oct 8, 2007 8:38:59 GMT
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Post by Plocket on Oct 8, 2007 9:17:52 GMT
Oh FIDDLESTICKS! I could have seen Paul Rankin (yummy!!!)! I'll have to keep an eye out next year. They can't have advertised it all that well if I didn't know a thing about it |
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I nearly had a fit. By lunch time it had really filled up and when we left at around 2pm it was heaving 
but I like her 
Jean-Christophe Novelli too although I didn't manage to catch a glimse of him, the sound of his voice does it for me 
others were Aaron Patterson, Rachel Green Chris Wiley, Teresa Bovey and Stephen Hallam. They were doing demo's but it was busy so we didn't have a peek at them.
