Mumsnet Village Show - An Afternoon Tea Tray for One

[Slubberdegullion]

So here we are again.

So far the rules are:

Tea tray for one

Can include anything you want suitable for a summer high tea (sandwiches, scones, cake, biscuits etc) with suitable cutlery and crockery and the like. (Silver service if you are terribly posh)

Five quid budget (on top of what you already have in your larder).

SlightlyMadScientist is the judge (heaven help us...is she properly qualified???)

Oh and all entries will be anonymous this time (A, B, C etc).

Time limit is 9pm next sunday so we can be judged before bed time.

The rules will obviously be bent or completely ignored but so long as its tea ish then anything goes.

but SMS could be a potter, who knows. It's all a bit of a gamble this one. So many factors involved.

afternoon tea tray you say?

ta da!

or it could be retro Cappuccino circa 1996

Two Marlboro Lights

Cup of Kenco

Galaxy

VERRRRY impressive logo LL!!

and BTW Slub - I'M a potter, hence the home made cups!!

Oh well in that case PM, go for the cups....this comp is meant to be anonymous this time though

LL, very, very impressive. Maybe this is your calling. sahm & professional rosette and certificate maker.

oh shit. IGNORE THAT POST!

Cuppuccino, please feel free to enter and put anthing you like (within the remits of good taste of course)on your tray.

Don't come over all upset and crotchety mind when you don't get a rosette though.

There was trouble at mill after the cupcake judging let me tell you.

It's gone PM (let's hope SMS doesn't read the thread).

Do you do an advent candle holder made out of coathangers every year then?

Right ladies......

As long as nobody objects the entrance class will be as follows:

Class 1. Traditional (posh cups & stuff)
Class 2. Most artistic/imaginative (anything goes...so you don't have to try and compete with LLs bone china and Califraus silver tray that is currently in the UK)
Class 3. Childrens entry

All classes must be relevant to the subject matter "An afternoon tea for one.

Any objections must be posted before 6pm tonight for consideration by the appointed judge
Further guidance on the marking criteria will be published by bedtime tonight.

Could I just make a comment about the anonymity thing

I am of course happy to abide by the rules as decided by our esteemed committee, but I do think that it makes it a lot more, well, DULL not to know whose is whose as they are posted up. I mean looking at a load of trays, no matter how fab they are, is a bit blah if you don't know who made them. I trust our judges to be impartial and I think the anonymity / no children's pictures thing just makes it more impersonal and not in the spirit of a Real Village Show, where there would be favouritism and rivalry and cheating, in all likelihood. And very entertaining too.

I quite like the idea of anonymity....but I will go with the consensus. I could be good to guess whos done what.

Proper names would obviously be revealed at the end.

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F&Z, at our Village your entry will have your name by it. The judges however are shipped in from 'outside the village' so cannot show bias as they do not know whe the entrants are.

In a MN context (not wanting to fire SMS from her position btw as currently she is doing a very impressive judgy job), come 8pm on a sunday, maybe the 'committe' could swoop in on an unsuspecting thread (like an antenatal...or telly addicts or something).

"Dear MrsX (previous poster) you have been selected for MN Village show jury duty. Please come along with us straight away and have a look at out trays." Maybe SMS could be co-judge to explain rules and deviations of them therein.

See this is turning into a RL WI....things are happening by commitee, soon there will be an upsurgence of twisted knicker syndrome, and splinter groups forming

we could sell the copyrights to these cake comps threads to a film maker. It is such an unusual thing for rl peeps to do. They did the WI calendar after all, and this is on the same lines. Do you think Steven Spielberg may be interested? (wanders off to look in yellow pages under 'F')
[steven spielberg film director emoticon]

tigi (can I call you that, or are you still miffed cupcake judge), I think we are setting a trend here.

I think modern women yearn to show off their baking skills, delicate tablewear and nice cups & saucers. But there is no forum for it (unless you live in a villge, with a village show).

I tell you, give it a few years and there will be tonnes of online baking and craft competition forums.

And yes cod, you're right, if I had a nice tray I would like to show it off. I don't however, but I do have a drawer of fancy linen.

I've got a white plastic tray and a couple of paper napkins... classy in its own way??

MrsFish I have a lovely hard back book full of different ways to fold your napkins (I kid you not, my beloved Mother gave it to me for my birthday).

Now I bet a fancy folded napkin would garner judge approval.

lol LL, yes a beautifully folded g-string next to your plate of scones would be very in keeping with MN.

do you really have a drawer of fancy undies? I have a drawer of very sensible undies and a shoe box of slightly lacier yet in most people eyes still sensible pants & matching bras.

My poor DH.

I am not fussed about anonymity or not....I can remain impartial...I am currently drawing up a marking scheme as we speak...

But I DO NOT WISH TO SEE ANYONES UNDERWEAR -100 points to start...

Hmm the bold worked well there didn't it