Archive for NEEPS North East Eco-friendly People's Site          NEEPS Forum Index -> What's on? wildgarlic Turriff Show 2nd. 3rd August Quote: Turriff District Agricultural Association was delighted to win the Northern Lights Aberdeenshire Tourism Initiative Award in 2008. The award recognises and celebrates excellence in the tourism industry. We look forward to the 145th Turriff Show to be held on Sunday 2nd and Monday 3rd August 2009. Turriff Show is part of the ‘Homecoming Scotland’ celebrations. Overseas visitors will be warmly welcomed in a special hospitality marquee located in a prime position by the main arena and there will be many special attractions at the Show this year. Ally Bain and Phil Cunningham will start the celebrations with a large marquee concert on the evening of Friday 31st July 2009. We would expect about 700 horse and pony entries and 40 goats on the Sunday, and 450 cattle, 450 sheep and 40 Clydesdale horses on the Monday. In addition there are fur and feather classes and an Open Dog Show on the Sunday with poultry and a Companion Dog Show on the Monday. There are over 250 trade stands, a renowned food fare, indoor shopping mall, lifestyle marquee, a special forestry area and a special educational area for children plus Codona’s funfair. The Industrial Marquee is one of the largest in the country with over 1600 home based craft exhibits and an excellent horticultural show. Each day has an extensive ringside entertainment programme with many special attractions including in 2009 the famous Bolddog Lings Freestyle Motorcycle Display Team. http://www.turriffshow.org/ Smooth Hound remember to take, umbrella, coat and boots/wellies, as it nearly always rains wildgarlic doubt we'll be going as cars are still not fixed. Smooth Hound thats not good, did you measure the prop monkey nuts Hoping to go to this on Sunday. lachlanandmarcus May go on Monday but not sure...went last year tho and it was great! i wanted to buy lots of things but the only thing we ended up with was a 2500 litre heating oil tank BORING! kimmie we hope to be there on Sunday too! kimmie was Packed...only neeps i saw was PPG and Stoney, although Matty did see most of his work force!! Weather held up ok...was one heavy shower but we were on our way out by then anyway....managed to walk the whole thing twice!! am suffering for it now...would love to go tomorrow though hehehe PurpleDragon Went both days and thoroughly enjoyed my weekend Smooth Hound we had some great weather for it this yr,   a first for a long time mastercomposter Turriff Show I was there along with one of my volunteers on the Monday - really hot day.  Spoke to lots of people who were wanting advice on composting - though the uplifting thing is, alot of people came to tell us all about how they were getting on with their composting which is a positive development. We were there, working alongside WRAP and Aberdeenshire Council.  I liked their display this year - a kitchen and a shed - both showing how you can reuse materials or recycle them - think it helped people relate to their own homes and what they might look to do. Enjoyed my over expensive bacon roll, cheese on chips and ice cream - all part of the genuine Turra Show experience!! Master Composter (Chris)        NEEPS Forum Index -> What's on? Page 1 of 1