Flower Show, Scotland, Mining Villages, 1953, Nostalgia - Best in Show started with a bit of an autobiography, which I asked my friend Jake Buchanan to read. It was his talking of the flower shows we remembered from our young days in the mining villages in Southern Scotland that started me exploring the idea of a book about a flower show. One of my memories of those days is of an afternoon dance organised for the teens at which my future wife asked me to dance and I, terribly embarrassed, having to admit I could neither waltz nor quickstep. Unfortunately, both Jake and my wife are dead and I hope I have created something they would have enjoyed.
Sullatober Dalton