by Phillida Hurn
Following my involvement with World Congress last year,
I had expected a slightly quieter, less demanding year ahead,
only to find at meetings and at shows I was encouraged and
supported to take up the role of being a Council member!
Well here I am now, as I write this report, a Council Member
for the next three years!!
At this point I would like to
say I will do my very best for the Society members and the
Simmental Breed. I will always be here for any members who
have queries or points of view to take to Council meetings.
Well now on to our Club members and activities of this year,
we have had great highs and lows. Alan Abram had a very nasty
accident with a Simmental cow in May and unfortunately broke
his back; the good news is that as I write this he has been
home for four weeks. Then four days before the Norfolk Show,
Paul Gunther phones me and say he is unable to do the food
for the exhibitors, Oh dear!! Well in the next breath he
tells me he is in hospital and not allowed home until he
has had an operation on his heart at Papworth on Monday of
the show week!! Thankfully all is well and Paul and Alan
are coming to the Club Meeting and Dinner in November!!
Thanks
to Hayley and Andrew Clarke we did have a very good BBQ in
the evening of the first day of the Norfolk Show, it was
a great success with about 30-40 exhibitors attending, thanks
goes to all involved!
Some members managed to have a meal
in Wroxham and then on to the Boat Trip on the broads again
in July! We had a lovely evening dancing on deck to the music
and drinking cool beer, as we sailed onto the broads.
I
would like to mention what an asset Tom Hume; as a member,
has been to our Club for the last two years, giving us all
very useful advice on many veterinary topics, and on the
importance or calving and conditions of animals, also over
the advice on Blue tongue vac. etc. I would like to welcome
him as a new Simmental member and Breeder, as he now owns
his first Simmental Cow and Heifer Calf!
Well I think the
cattle should be mentioned! Our members have some great Simmentals;
we have three Kilbride Farm young bulls travelled to Norfolk
farms from Northern Ireland this year! And I believe some
very good Hockenhull cattle came home too from the dispersal
sale in October! So watch out next year in the show ring!!
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| William Abram with his
heifer Wagtail winning at the Aylsham Show |
I
would like to congratulate our Club members for their tremendous
success at the shows this year, especially at the Royal Norfolk
Show, where there were some of the best cattle in the country,
and we gave them a run for their money!! Also to congratulate
William Abram (age12) for all his success with his heifer
at the local shows this summer and my Granddaughter Camilla
Morgan- Evans (age 7) for entering her first ever young handlers’ class and winning! I have to say it
was such a relief not to have restriction for blue tongue
or foot and mouth or such like!!
Some of our members are
off again to the Christmas Concert at Thursford in December,
which I am sure they will all enjoy.
Tony and I have just
come back from a lovely holiday New Zealand, Having visited
their Simmental President Helen and John Ellis’s herd
of Simmentals, I can recommend anyone thinking of going to
the World Congress in Australia, to go onto the post tour
in New Zealand, it is the most beautiful country, well worth
at visit, but please take lots of warm and waterproof clothes!!
Thanks again to our Chairman Ian and the Club members for
their support this year and to my long suffering husband
Tony!
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