Mood: Pleased \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n
This weekend saw the annual local garden show with both boys entering things they’d grown.<\/p>\n
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K entered some tomatoes that he’d grown (i.e. he’d look at the pot occasionally) whilst N entered tomatoes, a pot plant and a miniature garden. At the very last minute, I was persuaded to enter some knitting (a jumper I finished a few months ago) on the grounds that the competitor fee was actually cheaper than paying the normal show admission price.<\/p>\n
N won 3rd prize for his tomatoes, 2nd prize for his garden and 1st prize (complete with nice medal) for his pot plant.<\/p>\n
K won 2nd prize for his tomatoes and was not<\/strong> pleased! As something of a minor veteran (he’s entered tomatoes for the last three years running and won 2nd place last year), he figured he was a dead cert to win first this year. Not winning is tough when you’re only 6.<\/p>\n N was more than slightly suprised and pleased (this is only the first time he’s entered the show properly) and is already planning next year’s entries.<\/p>\n I was totally surprised to get a 2nd place for my last-minute entry. It made me more determined to finish off that sampler afghan that I’ve been knitting for the past 18 months. 15 squares knitted. Only another 32 to go…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mood: Pleased \ud83d\ude00 This weekend saw the annual local garden show with both boys entering things they’d grown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[70,19,69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}