Thread: Maidstone and Medway Cat Club show

Ok spill the beans,how come you are involved with the above club but your address is Germany....?Thats a long way to come.
That was one of my favourite when I was showing GCCF,I still have a pen that we were given & it must be from at least five years ago.I can always remember leaving here at 5am in the morning & we had really thick snow & nearly gave up because we thought we were being stupid,we decided to get a few miles under our belt & then make our minds up what to do,less than thirty miles on there was nothing but it was bitterly cold, we pulled up at the venue with snow still on the roof of the car & people kept coming over to see if it was real,I think they thought we had really got into the xmas spirit & sprayed the car with artificial snow ! If my memory serves me right,used to be cake too.....

Originally Posted by jckkerrison

Ok spill the beans,how come you are involved with the above club but your address is Germany....?Thats a long way to come.
That was one of my favourite when I was showing GCCF,I still have a pen that we were given & it must be from at least five years ago.I can always remember leaving here at 5am in the morning & we had really thick snow & nearly gave up because we thought we were being stupid,we decided to get a few miles under our belt & then make our minds up what to do,less than thirty miles on there was nothing but it was bitterly cold, we pulled up at the venue with snow still on the roof of the car & people kept coming over to see if it was real,I think they thought we had really got into the xmas spirit & sprayed the car with artificial snow ! If my memory serves me right,used to be cake too.....

I have been involved in doing the Club website now for about 7 years, I love the show, I missed it last year because I was stuck in snow at Calais and I will miss it this year.. Its one of the best shows in the show calender, a well run show with nice people, plenty of goodies and lots to see and do.. I have a few cats that have pets passports and I will be attending next year!! After being a steward for over 20 years, I can highly recommend this one...

I must have been there a couple of times when you were stewarding then,it was only last year that I threw out all my catalogues,typical,or I would have known exactly when it was.I gave up with GCCF as Merlyn got upset at coming out of his pen,I always knew if he had been judged for all his side classes because he would lay relaxed at the front,if he hadn't then he would be curled up tightly in a corner,I got so I used to put him under the same judge for as many classes as I could & hope then that they wouldn't get him out each time,decided that ii wasn't fair on either cat,stewards,judges or us...
Do second though that it was a great show...

Originally Posted by jckkerrison

I must have been there a couple of times when you were stewarding then,it was only last year that I threw out all my catalogues,typical,or I would have known exactly when it was.I gave up with GCCF as Merlyn got upset at coming out of his pen,I always knew if he had been judged for all his side classes because he would lay relaxed at the front,if he hadn't then he would be curled up tightly in a corner,I got so I used to put him under the same judge for as many classes as I could & hope then that they wouldn't get him out each time,decided that ii wasn't fair on either cat,stewards,judges or us...
Do second though that it was a great show...

More than probably, I used to steward a lot for Anne Gregory, George Gow, Freda Matthias, John Hansson, to name but a few... Plus a couple of the foreign judges when they came over!

Hi Debbie,just went to use one of my pens & it has 2005 on it,so either done 2004 or 2006 as well,know we went two years in a row,I have all Merlyn's winning rosettes on a board still & normally I write on the back who the judge is that awarded them but typically the super tartan one he got from there,nothing......
Won't catch you there again as none of mine would show GCCF now,hate being taken from their pens especially by someone they don't know, but who is to say that one day,somewhere else,stranger things have been known to happen & in the meantime I carry on remembering everytime I use the pen !