{"id":799,"date":"2012-05-30T06:16:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T10:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=799"},"modified":"2012-05-30T06:16:10","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T10:16:10","slug":"jolly-good-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/jolly-good-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Jolly good show!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It certainly was for our English friends and partners, Joy and Angus Cottey.\u00a0 Their young cow, Garradon Fuschia<\/em>, won top honors at the British Society’s recent national show.\u00a0 Not only was Fuschia<\/em> the champion cow, but grand champion as well, besting all the bulls in the competition.\u00a0 That doesn’t happen very often.<\/p>\n

Angus and Joy are a wonderful couple and great fun to be around.\u00a0 She’s a midwife and he is a “copper”.\u00a0 An earlier bull of theirs, Cutcombe Jaunty<\/em>, a champion in his own right, plays a key role in our breeding plans and his calves are already here at Thistle Hill.<\/p>\n

Fuschia<\/em>, by the way, was sired by Gavin Hunter’s Tilbrook Fireworks<\/em>.\u00a0 Gavin is another of our English colleagues and so congratulations to him as well.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, we have to admit that in all our time in England we’ve never heard anyone say “jolly good show”.\u00a0 Just seemed appropriate for this post.<\/p>\n

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It certainly was for our English friends and partners, Joy and Angus Cottey.\u00a0 Their young cow, Garradon Fuschia, won top honors at the British Society’s recent national show.\u00a0 Not only was Fuschia the champion cow, but grand champion as well, besting all the bulls in the competition.\u00a0 That doesn’t happen very often. Angus and Joy are a wonderful couple and great fun to be around.\u00a0 She’s a midwife and he is a “copper”.\u00a0 An earlier bull of theirs, Cutcombe Jaunty, a champion in his own right, plays a key role in our breeding plans and his calves are already here at Thistle Hill. Fuschia, by the way, was sired by Gavin Hunter’s Tilbrook Fireworks.\u00a0 Gavin is another of our English colleagues and so congratulations to him as well. Incidentally, we have to admit that in all our time in England we’ve never heard anyone say “jolly good show”.\u00a0 Just seemed appropriate for this post.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":804,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions\/804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}