Another year come and gone, and today (Friday) the show stuff has finally been put to bed for another year.
As usual, a successful dog show cannot function without its volunteers and so there are a number of thank you’s to offer:
My son and future daughter in law Anthony & Emma for there help throughout the recent months with all the admin and preparation and their help during the day.
Julie, Neil & Rosie who have no association with the club, merely family friends, who travel up from Northampton year in year out to help set up the day before and then numerous roles during the show, such as car parking, refreshments, decoys and packing up.
The “Thursday Nighters” who attend the club training but hold no role on the committee who give up their day to assist especially Lorinda and Elaine for their photos.
One of the biggest thanks to the judges and stewards, who without them, the show cannot go ahead. It is becoming increasingly harder to get these, and like other show secretaries is a massive frustration. On that note, I’m still short for a few judges next year, Monday 3rd May 2027. This year we were lucky enough to put on a 3rd C class and find a spare judge but next year we are seriously considering capping the classes to 2 parts per class so any volunteers to judge will be greatly appreciated.
Bryan Luckock for this admin, printing and chief stewarding.
Pet needs for their sponsorship and trophies.
I’m sure there are others to thank but as you can imagine things can be forgotten in the mist of everything so thanks to you and I’m sure that all the competitors will give the above thanks as without them the show cannot go ahead so thank you.
I would like to add a thanks to everyone who attended and hope you had a good time. Parking was a dream this year, although the weather helps, and no issues were raised during the show.
We would like to apologise for the catering issue; we had a catering van booked and at approx. 630 received a text to say they had a puncture and were awaiting the RAC and would try and get to the show ASAP, unfortunately they stopped communicating with us and despite numerous efforts to get an update received nothing. Had we have known early enough we could have tried liaising with the clubhouse to try and put something on, so again we are very sorry.
Finally, we have a number of lost property that were handed to us from rugby show as well as left at our show. This will all be at Loughborough show next weekend.
We also have a rosette left over for 6th Place in Wendy Birch’s class number 352. This will also be at Loughborough.