The Flower Show is on Saturday 16th September.
We hope you are all planning your entries – not long to go now. The schedule / entry form is attached below and is also printed in Dorchester News.
Remember:
- Entry forms and entry fees to be in no later than 7pm on Wednesday 13th September to Christina Stores, 55 High St (post through letterbox please)
- Bring your entries to the Village Hall between 9 and 10.15am on the Saturday of the show.
Good luck to all,
from The Committee
We are sorry to announce that the Spring Flower Show has been cancelled, due to the Coronavirus.
Apart from the possible dangers from people gathering in an enclosed space, we could not guarantee to have sufficient experienced judges (one has already withdrawn) or sufficient people to organise and run the show. Some of the committee members work in essential services.
The Autumn Flower Show will be on the 12th September. Please put the date in your diaries and we look forward to seeing you all then.
The Committee
The next Dorchester on Thames flower show is scheduled in for 4th April 2020. You should now have plenty of time to:
We are very much looking forward to receiving your entries.
Remember that forms and entry fees must be in to Christina Stores, 55 High St, by 6pm on Thursday 30th August. Then bring exhibits to the Village Hall between 9 am and 10.30 on the day of the show.
The schedule is attached to this post and it’s also in Dorchester News
Good luck to all.
David (on behalf of the committee)
More than three hundred entries were a sure sign of your continuing support and the show went really well on the day. On behalf of the committee, thank you all for your hard work in preparing all those amazing exhibits, and thanks to all those who came along to see.
It is once again my pleasure to tell you that the judges were impressed by the continued high quality of the entries in our small but perfectly formed show.
A highlight this year was the first presentation of the Jenny Nudds Tomato Cup. Jenny presented the cup after retiring from the committee and she and Jerry Nudds each gave more than thirty years of service to the show. We owe them a lot, and their knowledge and experience will be much missed – thank you both. We now have Jenny’s cup and the Jerry Nudds plate for a Gentleman’s Fruitcake, so neither will be forgotten.
I would like to thank the committee members for all their hard work, i.e. for: schedule-agreeing, poster-making, poster-sticking, email-sending, plant-growing, plant-preparing, trophy-collecting, trophy-chasing, trophy-polishing, judge-booking, hall-booking, hall-preparing, banner-hanging, paperwork-doing, loads-more-paperwork-doing, prize-card stamping, email-sending, money-managing, float-preparing, tea-readying, raffle-prize-organising, entry-collecting, picking-up-scattered-small-change-off-Christina’s-doormatting, entrant-minding, judge-minding, result-running, prize-card-scribing, final-checking, tea-making, tea-selling, plant-selling, raffle-selling, door-guarding, prize-giving, non-winner-consoling, hall-clearing, hall-tidying, left-behind-entries-delivering, probably-quite-a-few-I-forgot(ing), and sorting the schedule for the next show.
Welcome to our new committee member John – he survived surprisingly well. And thank you to Dan Duke and Ian Brace for their publicity work.
The Spring Show will be on Saturday 7th April 2018 – we look forward to seeing you there.
David Wilkinson