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Flower Show Awards & Bitch Slaps

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Hello m' red carpet luvas, I know to do what we do, you gotta be able to take people heckling you over the garden wall, saying stuff like "eh, you've left your fog lights on your car", or "I saw I rat by the compost heap yesterday", deliberately distracting words such as "would you like some freshly baked chocolate beetroot cake". And you gotta be able to take it when people say you are crazy for talking to plants. In this business, you gotta have to be able to have people disrespecting you, saying the previous owners had the garden lawn looking all pristine and immaculate , and you gotta smile and you gotta pretend like its ok.  Well this is a beautiful moment. *I just want to say thank you to all you lovely readers for wishing me luck and .......  [cue over riding exit music]..... *Large portions stolen from Will Smith's 2022 Oscar Speech  Disclaimer: no real 'bitch slaps' were handed out in the making of this post. That's just s...

Mrs Mulch !?!.. It's show weekend...

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 Hello m' cheese crackers, It's the Falmouth Spring Flower Show this weekend - the first since 2019. As defending champ in just one sole category, this is not something I've been taking lightly! Should any of my competitors be reading, I am keeping schtum on my entry. In fact, if this were a late summer show, I would be dousing my giant vegetables with holy water and employing the protection of Wallace and Gromit's 'Anti-Pesto' services. Being a spring show though, there will instead be daffodils, camellias and lots of springy sprigs. The 112th Falmouth Spring Flower Show 2022 @ Princess Pavillion                            Saturday 26th March 10am - 5pm | Sunday 27th March 10am - 4pm     After dropping our family entry form off at the Moor library last week, I popped into Falmouth Art Gallery upstairs, and was thrilled to see original Wallace an...