Dundee Food and Flower Festival

Rural Life has been a very busy life, lately. The day after Heartwood opened, the Dundee Food and Flower Festival opened, with a woodland theme exemplified in the picture below which combines food, flowers and woodland.

There were tradtional displays like this competitive array.

and this

and even this

This much less traditional arrangement reminded me of the styleof Charles Rennie Macintosh

and this polar exploration garden of discovery was being photographed from all sides.

There were lots and lots of crafts and lots of new contacts.

There was music of all sorts, and although there was only a small audience at this session, the crowd was so big next day, there was no room to get close enough to take a photograph.

Some people had dressed for the occasion,

 some people wore their emotions on the outside

and one little boy kept a low profile

What were all these people queuing for?

Who is the man in sunglasses?

Gino D'Acompo signed copies of his recipe books

and kissed every woman who bought a recipe book

and posed with families too!

Monty Don attracted a different audience, who admired his braces, but there was no kissing in evidence.

  This is what impressed me most and may have changed some aspects of my life. A simple, self contained stove/ space heater. Expect to see versions of this again.

. . . in Finzean.It's a way of making a log burn within itself, by introducing oxygen through a cross split in the log and fire through a packing of dry shavings.

Dundee Flower and Food festival is a great show with a huge variety of quality displays packed in a small space - I'm not getting paid to say that, I mean it.

 I have loads more photos, but no time to process them, but I will be writing about some of the exhibitors in the months ahead and giving the show a mention when I do.