Barrow Gurney Flower Show

The prettiest village hall there ever was 🌸

The vegetables and herbs 🥕 🫘 🎃 🥒 🍃

Delicious 😋 🍯 🍰

Until next year pretty plates! Cream tea sets all safely packed away for another fabulous Flower Show next year…..

⚽️The Barrow Gurney Village BBQ is on Sunday at 1pm. We will be showing the Women’s World Cup final on a projector from 11am and the bar opens at midday. If there is extra time or penalties 😬 the food might be slightly delayed by 30 mins, we hope you understand! ⚽️

Today is the day! Barrow Gurney Flower Show starts at 2pm in the village hall, come along and join the fun 🌸

The first few entries were delivered this evening to the village hall and it’s all looking spectacular! We can’t wait to see you all tomorrow for another fabulous Barrow Gurney Flower Show!

🍔 We have reduced the price of our village BBQ tickets 🍗 & we would love to see you all at the BBQ this year. Best wishes, the Flower Show Committee ❤️

🫛It’s time to enter the flower show! 🫛Dear all, the time has come to get your entries together for the Barrow Gurney Flower Show 2023 🍅So if you are finishing the final stitches on your handicrafts, writing the labels for your jam, or giving those tomatoes a pep talk in their last few days of growing, your efforts are nearly complete! We can’t wait to see what you have all been up to! Here is a reminder of how to enter. 🥕entry forms can be emailed to [email protected] or placed in the box at Gatcombe Farm Shop or the Village Hall, deadline is 5.30pm Thursday 17th August. Your entries must be delivered to Barrow Gurney Village Hall on Friday 18th between 6.30-7.30pm or Saturday 19th between 9.15-10.15am. 🥕Show starts at 2pm. Good luck everybody and see you there!

Did somebody say they have too many courgettes….. why not enter class no.47 a cake using a vegetable 🍰you will need butter, for the tin
2 large eggs
125ml vegetable oil
85g soft brown sugar
350g courgette, coarsely grated
1 tsp vanilla extract
300g plain flour
2 tsp cinnamon
¼ tsp nutmeg
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
½ tsp baking powder
85g walnut, roughly chopped

It might be raining today, but in Barrow Gurney the apples keep on growing, ready to be entered in the flower show! You could enter class no.29 or no.30 5 eating or cooking apples, or no.42 with some apple chutney, no.52 some homemade cider or get artistic and paint your apples portrait for no.54! We ❤️ 🍏

It’s BBQ time! Come and get your early bird tickets 🌭 🍔 🥗🍻

Whilst the weather might have taken a little turn for the worse today ☔️ at least our future prize winners are enjoying the water 🏆 🍎🫑 I hope you have all managed to get yourselves a copy of the Flower Show schedule and have started to think of your entries 🏆

🌻By now some of you may well have been lucky enough to get your hands on the 2023 Flower Show schedule. They are slowly filtering their way through the village and surrounding area. They will be delivered with your parish magazine, but you can also pick up a copy from Gatcombe Farm shop,The Princes Motto or Long Ashton Post Office. Pour over the pages, plan your entries and start getting excited, with just over 7 weeks to go it’s nearly Flower Show time! 🌻You can place your entries in a box at Gatcombe or the Motto, you can also hand in your form to a committee member or email it to us at [email protected]

Some photos of last year to get you in the flower show mood 🌸 🍯 🍅 🥒 🌹 this year shall be even ⭐️ BIGGER & BETTER ⭐️

Time to plant those seeds, look up those recipes and get crafting, the Barrow Gurney Flower Show 2023 is coming……

You could smell these beauties a mile off 🌹 🏆

This was the first time we have had a children’s activity area along with their competition and it was absolutely fantastic 🐝🌼🌻🐝🌼🌻🐝🌼🌻

Delicious! Well done honey cake bakers! 🐝 🍯 🍰

Well done to all the competitors! An excellent effort by all! Better get planning for next year! 🌻🏆🥬🏆🌼🏆🌸🏆🥦

Wow! Thank you Barrow Gurney for such a fantastic flower show 🍇🍅🥬🌻🌸🍰🧁🍯🍪

Its Fl🌼wer Sh🌼w day!! Get yourself down to Barr🌼w Gurney Village Hall for 2.45pm!

It’s T🌻MORR🌻W 🥕🥦🌽🥕🥦🌽 Barrow Gurney Flower Show is tomorrow Saturday 3rd September in the village hall! Please come on down to look at the amazing exhibits, flowers, fruit, veg, photos, jams, beer and much more! Doors open at 2.45pm and the prizes are given at 4pm 🏆 🏅 🍎 🌻

Important dates 🌻the deadline for the tallest sunflower competition is Sunday 28th August, just email us your name and address if you want to enter. 🍅The deadline for all other flower show entries is Thursday 1st Sept.

There are now less than 3️⃣ weeks until show time! Copies of the entry form can be downloaded from https//bit.ly/bgfsentry (not the 20p charge is wavered this year) Or you can pick up a copy from Gatcombe Farm shop or just email us your entry details, address in the bio. You must deliver your entries to the show on Friday 2nd Sept between 6.30-7.30 pm. The show takes place on Saturday 3rd Sept 2.45-4pm with prizes announced at 4pm 🏆

Horray! 🌻☘️🌻☘️🌻☘️

Tickets are now on sale for the Annual Village BBQ. This is a long running tradition following the flower show and is always a great event. It is a chance to catch up with others from the village and beyond, congratulate and commiserate with your fellow competitors and enjoy some delicious food.

This year the BBQ will be held on

Sunday 4th September

1pm at the Village Hall

There are vegetarian, vegan and gluten free options available and an ice cream is included in the price.

Tickets are available online via the Eventbrite website, link below:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/barrow-gurney-flower-show-village-bbq-tickets-381609202397

[email protected]

We look forward to seeing you there 🌭🍗🍔🥗🥂🍻

The flowers 💐 and vegetables class 🥬🌽🧅