Well I had a good day on sunday. Saw Bilbo and Charlotte again. Bilbo did well and got his certificate. Unfortunately Lottie wasn't feeling too well when me and my mate went back later in the afternoon to watch the best in show judging and was having trouble persuading the show organisers to let her go home (despite the fact that Bilbo had finished all his classes and a few others had been allowed to go). She got to go in the end though. Hope you're feeling better now, Charlotte. We watched the best in show judging and, being used to the supreme, sat there waiting for all the "finalists" to go up against each other to get one overall winner, only for them to award several best in show awards then announce that that was the end!
Still gobsmacked by the size of some of the cats there. One of the massive ones was a maine coon on this website
http://www.ruskitamainecoons.co.uk/winners.htmlHe's the second down on the left - Titan Moon - and I think you can get an idea of his size from the pic!
We had a good time though and after GCCF shows I found it amusing that owners presented their own cats to the judges and when a cat was "knocked out" of the best in show judging the stewards just handed them to the owners over the front of the stage, resulting in people wandering around the hall carrying cats in their arms! One woman sat in the front row to watch with her cat on her lap.
Met one amusingly snobby breeder/exhibitor. We missed her class but judging by the BIS contenders, where there was another cat in that class through and hers wasn't, she didn't win her class so I was sad to have missed that as it could have been entertaining!