Wondering Snowleopard: Show down.

It's that time of year again.
The 21st Repton Village Show.
This year, we had 12 entries, and won 6 prizes. Not bad, but not as good as previous years. The new avenue this year was the photo competition - one of the most heavily-entered categories (that's lousy English, sorry...)
Entered a

'cold' photo and a

'wildflower' photo. Neither won anything, though the wildflower one was 'just pipped to the post' in the prizes, according to the judge's comments.
As for the wins, it was 1 1st, 2 2nds and 3 3rds (very neat)
1st prize - plate of 3 pears.
2nd prize - plate of 5 eating apples
2nd prize - 3 carrots
3rd prize -1 flowering pot plant (ok, so I dug it up that morning, and put it in a pot, but I had grown it from seed)
3rd prize - vase of 3 other flowers.
3rd prize - (joint) jar of any other jam.
The 'Hunza chutney' narrowly missed the top three. It was half a mark off the podium (so to speak). I think the scores were 1st place, 19, 2nd, 18 1/2, 3rd, 18 and mine, 17 1/2 (or something along those lines)
Other entries were:
3 cooking apples
5 spuds
Vase of sweet peas.

All-in-all, this year was a bit of a disappointment on the garden produce front:
No tomatoes - they've just not played the game.
No courgettes - weird, I know, as courgettes are usually impossible to stop, this year they didn't really do much.
No squash/pumpkins etc. Probably sown too late.
No beans ready (they were about 1/2 inch long on the morning of the show)
Beetroot wasn't presentable
Shallots failed dismally
Didn't have enough veg for 'any 5 different veg on a tray'.

I was pleased with the plum jam.

Next year, I'll have to get Big Boy working on some of the kiddie entries. I also need to be more organised, so that things that can be done well in advance are!
Roll on next year.
Oh, and we also went to the Calke Abbey Plot to Plate show this weekend. Not many entries in lots of the categories. Might enter next year. Not a single carrot entry, for example. I'm sure we could have picked up a prize or two!