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This post must begin with hearty congratulations to our National Show Committee (NSC) for organising a show to remember. Apart from judging, the JSC’s role in the National is to provide a JSC representative to that committee and Head Bencher for the show. The National is also the training ground for JSC Trainees, but for several years there hasn’t been enough to make a dent in the NSC’s workload. But times have changed. This year we contributed 3 extra bodies,…

An initiative by the North East Koi Club to train their members took place on the 8th June at the premisise of Alan Cunningham one of their members.  As stated on their Facebook page “We take a professional approach to our show, with the care and health of our exhibitors koi being the number one priority at all times. For this reason, all members of our show benching team must undertake and pass the benching, health check, handing and netting…

A large team of BKKS judges participated in the international jury of the  European Koi Show presented by the Koi Club Nederland on the 25th May at Oldenzaal. The Brit team comprised of Gary Pritchard, Carol McCall, Tony Sheffield, Kieron Burns and Gary Hillier. In keeping with the tradition of International shows our team presented a Friendship Trophy on behalf of the BKKS. The winner was a size 7 Aka Matsuba exhibited by Freddy Roolvink. “An Aka Matsuba Size 7…

One of the oldest, independant koi clubs in the UK, the Yorkshire Koi Society (YKS) held a photo/garden show at the end of May, begining of June (31st May/1st June) at the premises of their members. JSC Chairman Allan Tait was the judge that they invited to adjudicate.  Although the list of entries was relatively small the quality was high.  Allan’s results were recorded at the time but the prize giving will be at the club’s next meeting where Allan will…

“I was arrested/detained at Schipol on the way home for overstaying in Holland, which surprised even me. On entry at Schipol they stamped my passport as 2024 so it looked like I was there over a year. Eventually it was cleared up and I had to have a special stamp on my passport lol. Picture explains it all.” Gary Pritchard.