The Enfield Show

Heather went off to the University of Greenwich this morning. She was supposed to be going on Monday but went today instead to give herself a day to settle in before induction. Dad's decided that since he's got Monday off work anyway, he might as well spend the night at his girlf's. Good!

Chris has already left for work so I take Anna and Rosemary with me to Halford's to get Chris a new innertube for his bike tyre. He's decided that he might as well bike to work instead of taking the bus cos it's quicker, cheaper and is good exercise! So we get the innertube, stop by MDs for lunch, and then head to the Enfield Show in the Town Park.

The Enfield Show is held over the 3rd weekend in September every year and is usually pretty good. They have marquees full of arts and crafts, stalls set up by local charities and trades, a decent-sized fairground, and live animal shows throughout each day. One of the marquees was home to the competitions for the best flowers, vegetables & fruit, paintings, and cakes & biscuits. In the corner, they had a large stall set up by local beekeepers and had beeswax candles and honey on sale.

Another marquee had stalls of jewellery, glassware, home-made sweetments and papercrafts. I saw the most perfect supplements for Christmas gifts in here! And we went a little crazy with the home-made fudge. I got quite a selection: double chocolate, rum 'n' raisin, toffee fudge, peppermint chocolate, walnut chocolate, and coffee cream. I have to say though, the rum 'n' raisin was heavy on the rum part and halfway through the walnut chocolate, I realised just how sickly sweet the fudge was! I sort of looked at Anna, who herself is tucking into her peppermint chocolate, and she looks up, we sort of grimace in unison, and then put the fudge back in the bag! Save some for another time methinks...!

We stood around outside the bouncy castle watching the dog show and then walked around the rest of the stalls - face painting, clay figure-making, recruitment by the armed forces, the fire brigade letting kids honk the horn in their engine continuously... It was fun, and it always feels good to support your local community and be able to get something in return. It's just a shame that not enough people always go and the organisers run the risk of not being able to break even.