Arghhhh where to start?
Good news first ~ Kipton won his class, (WW Pearl) and came 3rd in Grand challenge. He also got BIS Junior! Bingley got 3rd in WW Sapphire, despite being extremely tatty and his eye is still not quite right.
Pringle got second in Non-standard, so the Dwarfy Beans did well!
We were quite pleased with the Syrians, though neither of them got anything. Napoleon's class, LH Satin was quite big, and he scored quite well, though didn't get placed. We are pleased with Lola, who, despite coming joint last in SH Patterned, scored very well for a baby, and the judge commented that she had excellent colour and quite a good band!
On the bad side, we got rather lost getting there. It took us 1 1/2 hrs instead of 27mins, and we were panicking because we thought we wouldn't be able to bench them on time!
The day started off all right, but it soon started to pour down! It was a nightmare trying to leave again, as our car had been penned in between a large tree and 3 other cars (2 of them hamster people, luckilly). It was a mud-bath there, and I had to stand in the pouring rain and direct Souf in reversing out. Our hams were still in their show pens, as we couldn't get into the boot to put them in their cages as a large puddle was in the way! We stopped at the side of the road in the park whilst I jumped out to put them in the cages. Whilst doing this a giant horse-box came up behind! I had to frantically shove them in and race round again so I didn't get run over!
We were both drenched and frozen by this point, so it was really not the best end to the show!
Congrats to all the winners, especially Bunsey, who got BIS Dwarf, LMDH (BOS Dwarf), Scorpio Syrians (BOS and BIS Syrian), Sam Moussette (BIS Junior Syrian) and Dan's Hams (BOS Junior Syrian). Also congrats to everyone on the forum who entered, and nooboo for doing a great job of being show sec ~ we really need to buy a club umbrella as the rain was dripping all over her and the prize cards!
Mollz, I think there were 99 hams entered in total in the show.