Anyone else going to the Flower Show this year? I'll be attending on Friday. Weather shouldn't be too bad.

I'll look out for you PS, will you be wearing chain mail? :D

I'll be attending on both days...

The Severn has a stand which I'm putting together on Thursday evening then on Friday I'll be live from the show 10-2.

So come and say hello if you see me milling about!

Chris.

No, I won't be wearing chain mail - too hot at this time of year! :P

Will probably pop by. Where abouts will your stand be? Not next to Radio Shropshire?!

I,ll be going saturday with the family plus my sister and her hubby down from Tyneside. Hope the weather holds up. :lol:

There's a question I can't remember now... its near the entrance from Quarry Place, I think!

Since I live on St. John's Hill, I'll be whinging both days due to the amount of traffic (pedestrian and vehicular) passing beneath my window :rolleyes: :)

Although it's an easy walk for me to nose at the free fireworks (heh), and according to today's Admag, there's even a display involving Army helicopters and a staged battle scene tomorrow night. Wikkid...

Did you see me and daughter sampling numerous liqueurs and strange wines (like Silver Birch) in the Food Hall PS ? After fighting off the throngs of pensioners knocking back samples like there was no tomorrow, :lol: we staggered out after a tot of toffee vodka into the brilliant sunshine. I have to get my practice in, IMHO though now retirement is a distant dream at sixty I should be well rehearsed!

The lack luster response to anything from the crowd other than the Welsh Male Voice Choir/Jerusalem despite many death defying stunts is a bit of an embarrassment to be honest.

Apart from the helicopters bit, the battle scene from the territorials was IMO not impressive. The soldiers struggled to get a leg up to get back onto their vehicle making it look more like a scene from Laurel & Hardy! <_<
Still that might encourage a few younger folk to enlist and get themselves sent to Iraq where they might end up with no leg to clamber onto a lorry with. I have a friend whose sister at 51 was sent to Iraq a few years back so not so young maybe.

I thought the attendance was down this Year, despite children going in free ( this had to wait until mine were too old :( )

With the plethera of stalls catering for mobility scooters, massage chairs, alternative therapies etc I can't help feeling this show will decline unless aspects of it are modernised. The members only section appears snobby and patronising and general feel of the show is dated and perhaps now too commercialised IMO.

I had a lovely day and the fireworks were great on the Friday. We were so close they were as good as overhead a fact brought home when a smouldering bit of firework landed on the grass by where we were standing and continued to smoke for quite sometime! :o

I thought the fireworks were pretty good on both days (rattling window frames several times :)), and the 'copters were cool - I actually went over to the Kingsland Bridge to have a nose and they went straight over my head, although it would've been even better had they flown under the bridge :).

The Coldstream Guards' marches were too noisy though. Couldn't hear the TV :)

we went with our little one and all had a lovely day. the weather was great and little one loved the helicopter display but did get scared by the fireworks so his nanny took him home , shame!
day went really fast and didnt get round half the things i wanted to.
we might go on the friday next year.
very enjoyable day and i beleive they think ticket sales were up 25% which is good news :D

I went on Saturday and thoroughly enjoyed the day. The weather held out well i thought. My only grumble was i thought the entertainment in the main arena was poor this year. As we went early and only stayed until tea time, we found nothing much going on (other than the parachuters), most seemed to be on in the evening, so next year we'll go later and see more for a cheaper entrance fee! But all in all it was a great day out with my family which is nice to do as we don't get the chance very often to get together. We also met up with some relatives that came to see the show from South Wales and they were also very impressed!

Saw the fireworks on Friday from within the ground then on Saturday from my bedroom window - this year they were very good I thought.

Saw the free spirits, but didn't tempt me. What did get me was the honey tasting... :D

As for the TA's helicopter lark... lol what a lark indeed!!

We went saturday and as i hoped the weather did hold up, got a red triangle on my chest where i caught the sun, good day lots to do and done , spent small fortune, the food and drink stands must of made a few hundred thosand the prices they were charching. Still got a nice deal on some lovely garden furniture :P