Well, I’ve finally got a blog! (About time, too, I hear you cry!)
I’m just heading down to the Cookery School, to start on the post show ‘re-grouping’…you wonder whether you will ever get all the demo ’kit’ back into the cupboards, when you see it strewn, randomly, in boxes, all over the floor. A big, “Thank you!” to Martin, at Towngate Works, for helping me unload my kitchen, and to Graeme and David, at Barlow Trailers, Ulnes Walton, who unfailingly sort me out with just what I need, every time I call in, wanting a miracle!
I’ve had the most fantastic weekend…with the tractor pull, and glorious weather on Sunday, in particular, attracting huge crowds. What a tribute to all those involved in putting on this amazing, agricultural, and, I have to say, family event…it was so lovely to have parents who were happy to wander round the food hall, leaving their children watching the cookery demo’s, or, in the case of the wonderful Mawson family (The delicious, old fashioned cordials’ producers.) leave their three delightful little girls making pretend cakes, out of coriander seeds, and redcurrants, whilst happily munching on raw baby sweetcorn, and mange tout, and podding peas, for England! I must thank the girls for making my bespoke, and somewhat unusual ‘designer’ jewellery set…out of coloured straws!
I got the opportunity to watch some of the tractor pulling; it was a fabulous recognition of his father’s talents, Jan van Alphen, driver of the modified tractor Popeye, (Who was tragically killed last year.) that John, his son came over from Holland, to drive his father’s tractor.
With recipes to go to print for St. Catherine’s Hospice calendar 2009, copy for next month’s Lancashire Life column to start on, demo’s at Blackburn Market this Friday, and Saturday, then the Royal Lancashire Show, in my cookery editor’s role, on Sunday, it’s going to be another busy week… now I really must get on with that tidying up!
All for now!
Philippa x
