Country diary: Fell running and circus skills at the Rusland Show

One of the president’s duties is to judge exhibits in the big marquee, so we went to have a look at the horticultural classes. There we met a local, Daphne Knipe, who was pleased to have won three silver cups for flower arranging at the show. Her record is 13 silver cups in one year from local agricultural shows. She showed us the exhibits in the “my hobby” themed floral class; one had homemade chocolate incorporated into it and one a stuffed owl and binoculars.