Sunday 1

Been a pleasantly hectic weekend. Sarah, Mikey, Amelia (19), and Guy (11), accompanied by the two cocker spaniels, Ruby and Mango, arrived on Friday evening for the weekend. The above photo shows Guy, having volunteered to help Granny in the kitchen, was given the job of cleaning out the saucepan in which the topping for a chocolate cake had been made, and is shown, very generously offering his Mama a taste.
On Saturday morning we all walked down to the showground where the Annual Agricultural show was being held.
The next photo shows two very well groomed creatures in the main ring. Never found out which of them won a rosette but feel sure that one of them must have done.

In the craft tent one of the exhibitors was displaying cakes she had made, and I couldn't resist taking a shot of this very fine cake decoration.

Must include Suffolk Punch horses in a blog about a Suffolk show, and this snap shows a mare and her foal.

This snap shows grandchildren Amelia and Guywith their Grandpapa.

The above three pictures are of turnouts for the driving competition.

Son in law Mikey, grandson Guy and instructor, trying six shots at the archery display.

Your blogger about to score a bull's eye (to everyone's astonishment - not least the blogger's). It was the only bull any of us scored, but my next five arrows were all in the target. Ah well, sometimes seniority is no disadvantage.

In the evening we drove across to Monks Eleigh, and had dinner at our favourite hostelry. Our good friend the landlady volunteered to take the above photo so that all of us were in it. Sarah, Mikey, etc., etc, had never been there and were very impressed with the place, as also were Amelia and Guy. Guy carefully ordered the same dinner as his grandfather had, and ate all of it (until we came to the pudding, which he ate half of, and then retired, replete, and rather somnolent). For the record we both had smoked whole sprats as a starter, Suffolk sausage and mash, with sweet and sour red peppers, then one of the best sticky toffee puddings ever! Can't really remember the rest of the order, except that Amelia and Mikey both had steak, and declared it was the best they'd ever tasted. Everything is prepared and cooked on the premises, and is mostly locally sourced. I even ordered a bottle of white wine grown and bottled at Lavenham. It would have compared favourably to a good, full bodied Moselle. As Mikey had beer, and both ladies were driving, most of the wine was drunk by Amelia and meself, with a little help from Guy.

After dinner, and before we drove home, took the above snapshot of evening sky at Monks Eleigh. In every sense a lovely evening.