August 27, 2013

Help please – a cake to ‘wow’ them at the village show

Posted by grumpytyke under Baking, cakes, Cooking, Food, Uncategorized, Yorkshire, Yorkshire villages | Tags: , , , , , , |
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I’m looking for suggestions for a cake to submit in the ‘annual show’ for the village in which I live – Menston – in Wharfedale, Yorkshire. The class is ‘My favourite cake’ and, very quaint, there is one class for women and one class for men!

Cakes for village show

Cakes for a village show

There are over 80 classes in all. If you are interested in how one English village show competition is organised you can go to a new blog I’ve recently created for the village, in which I’ve listed all the classes under ‘Events’:

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August 11, 2013

Menston village and other website have kept me absent

Posted by grumpytyke under Blogging, Bradford, Uncategorized, Wordpress, Yorkshire, Yorkshire villages | Tags: , , , , , , |
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Menston and Wilberforce have kept me away; many apologies for the long absence. First of all I was busy night and day (literally) getting a much-needed completely new website to its Beta form for the charity (Wilberforce Trust) for which I work, so it could be viewed by all the 70 or so staff for their feedback by the time I return from annual leave in early September. I’ll take into account the feedback then it can go live, hopefully that month. It’s a WordPress.org site so a lot more work than these wonderful free ‘wordpress.com’ sites. 

Menston village blog; screenshot with first post

Top of the new Menston village blog showing the first post

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