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RHS Flower Show 2019

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As per tradition, flower show came to Cardiff and I made my way there.  However this time child was at school and mother in law on holidays, so I took the husband.  Here he is looking a bit annoyed at crowds of people with wheely boxes full of plants.  But we are so different at just mooching, he cannot just mooch! That’s is rather annoying!  But he did insist on doing lots of shopping for the garden and then we did dig the garden and plated out new plant babies inculing the dwarf (little sister variety) raspberry bush.  However not having the offspring with us I realised how actually not kid friendly the event is. If last few years they had bunnies and guinea pigs or little chicks to look at, even owls to stoke, this year it was the hungry caterpillar trail that was well ... a bit rubbish and a small trampoline.  As my momma friend said it they market these events and kids friendly but they really aren’t. Oh well maybe next year they will think of somethin...

Flower Show

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Looking at flowers and wondering around is the best way to spend a day really.  My mother in law, Egg and I went to RHS Flower Show in Cardiff last weekend. Frankly we didn't know what to expect, 1st time for us, but we really enjoyed it. Edgar slept for the most of it:)  All the beautiful flowers and plants. They even had a special breed of daffodils called Doctor Who! How cute is that!  We were clearly amateurs since we didn't have a little wheely box everyone seem to  drag around full of plants!  Don't think we expected to see such a big crowd! The place was heaving with people some strolling some rushing around.  They also had a crafty market and a small food market. Some sellers were pushier than others, looking at you Toffee vodka dude, others were really happy to answers all the questions, Yvonne now knows the difference between pierogi and pasty!  The show even had some stands for kiddies and a small ch...