POEM
Pencombe Show
(the full version)
by Janet Legge
It’s time to prepare for the next Pencombe Show
Where you can exhibit some things you make or grow.
Pick your heaviest onion and your longest bean
Where no slug or aphid has ever been seen.
Scrub each perfect carrot and faultless spud,
The judge will scorn if they’re covered in mud!
Search your garden for its finest flowers
Which haven’t been blemished by wind or showers.
They’ll look magnificent along Church Pews
An array of shapes and colours of beautiful hues.
Create an arrangement depicting a woody hedgerow
Where hazelnuts, acorns and blackberries grow.
Only use flowers which grow in your garden
If you pick wild ones you’ll not get pardon.
For those of you who like to bake,
There are classes for scones and battenberg cake.
You can try your hand at a garden show stopper
Just secure it well so it won’t come a cropper!
There is even a chance to make something from wood,
A nicely lathed bowl would be really good
Youngsters can build a bug hotel
A place for our garden friends to dwell
Make a vegetable dinosaur with cucumber legs
Or ask your hens for some lovely fresh eggs
Paint a fine picture, knit a red hat
Or take a photo of a pouncing cat!
Bring jam and chutney or some flavoured gin,
You never know you might just win!
