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| Tina D |
18 July 2009 - Northlands Park Fun Dog Show, BasildonIn the spirit of keeping us all busy I have requested a stall at this dog show 
This is the info: "Northlands Park Fun Day and Fun Dog Show" Northlands Park, Felmores End, Pitsea, Basildon, Essex, SS13 1DX To be held on Saturday 18th July 2009. Registration starts from 11am. Show gets underway at 12 midday till 4pm Open to all dog types. Classes to be advised later. She is sending me the forms so will soon be able to confirm that it is all booked (fingers crossed!). But in the meantime, is anyone interested in helping out??? The East London/Essex team is all systems Go!!!
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| Sharonr - Admin |
Thank you for setting this one up. Yes, I'm with you Tina. | ||
| TheBeavisFamily |
This set up yet?Want to post details on events on FB page |
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| Tina D |
i have got the booking forms with me today to send off, i wasn't able to send them off without the Public Indemnities certificate, i will let you know when i recieve the comfirmation x | ||
| Tina D |
I probably should have told you all earlier but this one is confirmed!! 
It looks like it will be a big day if the info given by the organisers is anything to go by: "and following the success of the dog show at last years even there will be the return of the Northlands Park Dog Show as a major feature of the Fun Day. With the funfair rides, games, stalls and a stage full of entertainment for all the family the Events Group are planning another fantastic sommunity event." The confirmed classes are: 1 Cutest puppy – 4 to 12 months old 2 Golden Oldie – age 7 years + 3 Prettiest Bitch 4 Most handsome Dog 5 Child Handler – 14 years and under. 6 Best X-Breed 7 Best Pedigree 8 Best Rescue 9 Doggie Family – 2 or more dogs 10 Doggie Fancy Dress 11 Dog judge would most like to take home. 1st & 2nd placed winners from classes 1-8 go through to Best In Show. 12 Best in Show All entries are £1 per dog per class. Entry desk will be opening at 11 am, with the show starting at 12 noon. Rosettes will be given for 1st to 5th places. There will be a Best in Show & Reserve Best in Show Trophies to be won Also a Silver Salver for Best Rescue. With the Greyhound Walks, Agility and Display Team attending. They will also have lots of stalls including: dog chipping, groomers, I D tags too. and the petographer will also be there if you would like a portrait of your lovely dogs AND she says that a TV company will be filming on the day, so could be good publicity!!!!! (i must make sure Lucie has a wash and doesn't roll in anything disgusting!!!) Should be a good day if any of you can make it!!?? |
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| Bud |
Dam...........this sounds great.......would love to help....have to visit my parents who i haven't seen since Christmas...cant cancell again already changed the date as I was at Battersea... best of luck and i want to see that £300 barrier broken!!
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| Tina D |
See if you can feign illness and leave early...then come and join us!!
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| Bud |
see got my eye on the fancy dress and if we got Stevie in as well we could have a run for our money!! | ||
| Tina D |
Directions etc from the organiser
Looks like it will be a fun day and the BBC weather man has promised me it won't rain (if it does, i will be writing him a stern letter of complaint!!! )
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| karen |
The 'good weather, good times and good fortune' vibes all heading in your direction, too
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| belles mum |
Belle may be making a guest appearance here tomorrow, depending on her other commitments
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| karen |
How wonderful - the gorgeous Enfield Belle will always pull in the crowds
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| Sharonr - Admin |
Hi there
Fingers crossed and hoping to see you both. We don't have any librarian requirements (book sales) tomorrow, but we will find something for you to excell at as usual 
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| Sharonr - Admin |
Some blue sky, some fluffy white cloud and a little breezy. So far so good, fingers crossed
Paste tables packed, suitcase packed, posters printers by the bucket load. 1st time I've cooked liver cake (had to liquidize in the garage as Tex wanted to attack my domestic appliance)! Lilian (TinaD's mum) will be with us today
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| xxlynne |
Good luck! | ||
| Sharonr - Admin |
Hi everyone 
Well the weather was kind to us afterall - can't believe we've managed 5 weeks on the trot without rain! We had strong competition this week with a double gazebo next to us with tombolas and soft toys (another dog rescue) followed by the arrival of a dog biscuit supplier van all kitted out with professional wares. 
Today's highlights ... we had some lovely visitors again this week. Our fundraising photo icon, Moss, put in an appearance and the lovely Belle and her mum spent the afternoon with us and entered some of the dog show categories. Once again, we were thrilled to have their support. TinaD's dog, Lucie, got many compliments as she is so well training and TinaD entered her at the last minute into the Fancy Dress Dog Category - sporting a pink RR bandana, pink harness and guess ... the pink/white rabbit ears ... she came in with a rosette in 5th place.
We also had several enquiries about dogs, one of which was a lady who had lost her black lab Jet (male) and was thinking about homing another. I told her about our former Jet, now Jess and she got a little twinkle in her eye - we will see, you never know. Posters were also freely given and enquiries for the liver cake & biscuit recipes made
Tracey the event organiser also made us very welcome. She has said that next year the whole event will be held in one massive field instead of split between two with the dog show being kept separate. We would definitely give it another shot next year. Well we did the best we could and we raised ... £103.50 Our next fundraising events will be: Parklife Festival/Dog Show, Haverfield Road, Mile End, London, plus Burgh Heath Companion Dog Show, Burgh Heath, Reigate Road, KT20 Both on the 26 July 2009 |
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| Tina D |
I would like to add that although £103 doesn't sound like an awful lot-especially compared to some of the others that we have done-this really was a FANTASTIC effort! The dog show was in a smaller field than the main fair (which had rides, stalls and an entertainment stage), behind a large hedge and was not visable from the main field, which meant that the only foot traffic we had was really the dog show people.
I actually said to my Mum this morning that we would be lucky if we made £50, so to have made over double that was fantastic. Mum did a great job manning the tombolas (she gets better every week!!) but the star of the day had to be the lovely Sharon who took the initiative and with just a box lid and some dog biscuits/liver cake, went around the whole fair touting her wares-a la 1950s cinema usher!! She managed to sell nearly every bag (we came away with 5 bags of liver cake) and SUBSTANTIALLY increased our takings. As Sharon said, we had competition from other stalls selling/doing the same things but i think we did better than most of them. We had some kind donations and a lady even donated her dog toys that she won in the show!! We appreciate all of these displays of kindness!! It was lovely seeing Belle and Angela again-Belle actually won a rosette!!!!! And i was so happy to see Moss (and Paul and Annie, of course!!) I LOVE Moss!!!! and i seem to have bribed him very well with my continual gifts of Liver cake and biscuits and got some LOVELY cuddles off of him Paul and Annie brought more stuff, some lovely crystal glasses and a bottle of bubbly (*hic*)
Although the money doesn't reflect it, we actually had a good day xx |
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| karen |
Well done, everybody, sounds like a great day and the image of Sharon with the lid selling the liver cake - - well
Tina, I would be very happy to buy the left over liver cake off you, if you could freeze and then post? I will reimburse you the postage. I am on my last bag and Jaspa loves it 
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| Paul&Annie |
Well done!Well done to the whole team!You guys were really up against it being in a separate field and with competing charity and comercial stands. I think that all your hard work is reflected in another great total. Don't knock it! It shows how hard you all worked to raise every penny of that money. Believe me, we know how hard it is to resist your sales techniques! It was lovely to meet the beautiful Belle, we have seen her photo, but she is even sweeter is real life. Well done Lucie for parading in bunny ears, she is such a good sport. Thanks too to Tina's Mum for voting for Moss in the photo competition. We will not be able to come to the next couple of events, but wish you well with them and will catch up with you guys soon. |
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| Tina D |
Karen, It is already in the freezer so just let me know when you want some. I have 6 packs of liver in the freezer waiting to be made into cake  so there will be plenty more liver cake where that came from!!!!!!!
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| karen |
 Yesterday, please
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| Tina D |
I will make another batch this week some time, i can send you some fresh stuff if you prefer? That way you would be able to freeze it x | ||
| karen |
Fab - thank you
Will bank the payment with the money from Marish - shall we say 10 bags? |
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| Tina D |
Blimey! Your lot MUST be keen on it!!! No probs, i can send you 10 bags xx | ||
| Tina D |
Finally!!! Here are the pictures from this one!!! It REALLY isn't my fault that it takes so long, i seem to be working with two defective computers (home and work) one doesn't like the camera but likes Photobucket and the other works fine with the camera but doesn't like Photobucket!!!
Here is our stall with the lovely Sharon and I 
We are not very short, we are kneeling down!!!
Here is the lovely Belle and Angela with Belle's rosette (she won 5th place!!!) 
Here is Moss (   ) and Lucie:
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| secret squirrel |
http://www.rescueremedies.co.uk/page90.htm
Photos of the event on the Rescue Remedies website Nice photo of Tina and the Essex bird whose name I forgot as just had a memory lapse
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| karen |
Fab photos and excellent stall management - am a lookin and a learnin
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| Tina D |
What is interesting with the stall is how we change it's shape depending on where we are. You can't really see from these pictures but the three tables that we have are in a sort of "Z" shape (along the front of the stall, down one side and out along the bushes). This was the only was we could have all three tables out in the space we were given and meant that people walked by all of them on their way into the dog show ring At Mile End, we had a different space and arranged the tables differently (with the £1 table "lining" the path into the field-see the pattern here??!! )
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