Dalston Show - Saturday 8 August 2009

Before we knew it, Dalston Show was fast approaching yet again! All staff involved were working hard behind the scenes making sure the equipment was all in order, and gathering together refreshments, nibbles and most importantly a few bottles of wine and beer!!!

On Friday 7 August a team of staff were on the show field erecting marquees and making sure that everything was in order for what we hoped would be a busy show day. There wasn’t much time for basking in the sun!! Late morning we were putting in the final touches when Fiona Armstrong arrived from Border TV and started interviewing – oh no that meant we were going to be on TV tonight! Well at least people could see we were all working hard. Once we were happy that everything was in order for our early start the next morning, we went back to the office hoping and praying for another glorious day tomorrow.

Show day arrived and guess what - another beautiful day – not like last year when we all needed our wellies. As we arrived on the showground everyone was working hard making sure their stands were all set up ready for the public to soon arrive.
All our team worked together finalising everything and then it was time for bacon and sausage butties!

Everyone started arriving around 10.30am onto our stand where they has an opportunity to meet up with some of our team and put faces to names and vice versa.

What a glorious day. The sun was beaming and the crowds were buzzing; the nice weather and other local shows being cancelled this year attracted more visitors than last year.

By 6.30pm everything was packed away ready for next year and most of us ended up sitting outside the beer tent having a well earned drink or two!

Thank you to all who visited our stand and for taking part in our “Guess the Auction Mart” competition – the winner was Philip Mattinson.

Linda Rayson

A Night at the Races

Some of our staff had a fantastic evening at Carlisle Racecourse when we attended the annual Ladies Night on 3 August.

This tends to be an regular event for us and is always a fantastic night plus we have our own little competition, which gives us all the incentive to get our most glamorous outfits on.

Most of us met up on the first floor of the main stand where we would be able to watch the races from the glass fronted balcony and have access to the bar facilities also.

Lots of bets were put on and some staff did really well on the horses unlike myself who didn’t win a race all night.

I did win the competition with hubby Colin for our most dashing couple prize though and Robert won our comp for best tie of the evening with Melissa winning best hat/head piece and for the second year in a row Louise won the best-dressed female amongst us all.

We are sure to be there again next year.
Julie Campbell