Show is in Sandra’s DNA

Since her very first entry 62 years in the past, Sandra Corridor has been a stalwart of Mid Canterbury A&P Reveals.

From pet lambs to knitting tasks and engaging baking, present season has been Corridor’s time to shine.

And this yr she’s as soon as once more been a busy bee.

When she spoke to the Guardian earlier than the Ashburton A&P Present kicked off yesterday, Corridor was busy organising the show for the artwork and portray part, hanging some splendid trying work on chains towards a big white show stand.

Corridor has been the supervisor for the artwork and portray part since 2007.

“I like doing it.”

This yr her group has created two units of butterfly wings and a cap with feelers for youngsters to have their pictures taken consistent with this yr’s present theme – Let’s Create a Buzz: Bees, Bugs and Butterflies.

After organising the artwork work show, she deliberate to go dwelling to make a few of her baking entries so that they had been recent for presentation the next morning.

Corridor stated her preserves and fruit loaves had been accomplished, however she nonetheless needed to make the breads, muffins and sponges she deliberate to enter.

“The stuff that does not preserve, it’s important to make nearer to the Friday morning,” she stated.

She additionally had two knitting entries on this yr’s present. One was completed some time in the past, however her bigger challenge was solely completed with a day or two to spare.

For Corridor, getting into A&P exhibits is in her DNA. Rising up, her household entered the Mayfield present yearly. Her father entered his greens and her mom entered baking.

Corridor’s first A&P entries had been a pet lamb and a calf again in 1961 and 1962.

As a teen and into early maturity she entered her artwork works.

When she returned from Australia in 1987, Corridor gravitated again to the Mayfield present and by 1991 began to enter the Ashburton present.

She has two containers stuffed with entry tickets and rosettes – one from Mayfield and one other from Ashburton.

“Covid was the one time I finished,” she stated.

In a typical yr, Corridor begins begins to plan the next yr’s entries simply after Christmas – any bigger tasks wanted to be deliberate round her fulltime job at Ashford Handicrafts.

Nonetheless, she plans to retire on the finish of March subsequent yr and can then have extra time for her crafts and present entries.

For Corridor the A&P exhibits have been an integral a part of her life. Her kids and grandchildren have all taken half, too.

“It is all concerning the pleasure and ambiance.”

That ambiance will probably be on full show right now, because the crowds head down on what is anticipated to be a sunnier time out than the primary day of the present.

By Sharon Davis