The Scots Fancy Specialist Club Show took place on 22 October 2022. An entry of 64 saw 57 birds benched and they were ably judged by Norman Wallace of Gloster Fancy fame and now a breeder and exhibitor of Scots Fancies. The event was hosted within Grangemouth CBS and was the busiest show I have attended in a long time. 

Best Novice was awarded to Lauren Wight with her current year bred [CYB] Buff and the Best Novice trophy and the novice special rosettes for the Best Novice White and Buff.  Lauren also won a new style STA show cage gifted by member Sandy Devidge.

The Club has, this year, introduced the awards of Second and Third Best in Show in an effort to address the longstanding issue of "winner takes it all" with just a Best in Show winner. This worked at Carlisle but not at the Club Show where Best in Show, 2^nd Best and 3^rd Best were all awarded to me with my CYB Buff hen, CYB Buff Piebald and Flighted Buff cock. I also won the trophies for Best Champion, Best in Show, Best Cinnamon, Best CYB Yellow, Best Piebald and Most Points.

Gordon Alexander took the trophy for Best CYB White while the remaining champion colour specials were awarded to me. 

My Belgians were entered in the Any Other Variety classes of the Grangemouth CBS show and one won Best Any Other Variety and his son won his class, both against competition. 

Sunday 9th October 2022 saw the first specialist show of the UK Scots Fancy show season. This was the Scots Fancy Specialist Club's [SFSC's] southern show held in association with the Northern Gloster Fancy Canary Club at Rockcliffe, Carlisle. It's a lovely venue and a very nice show which is held to enable the southern members of the SFSC to exhibit at a club show without having to travel to Scotland. Disappointingly, not one of the southern members took part. All the exhibitors were from Scotland. The Club will need to consider whether it keeps hosting this show if the members have no interest in taking part.

Best in Show and Best Old Variety was won by Gordon Alexander's cinnamon and Second Best in Show was novice Lauren Wight's Buff and Third Best in Show was my Buff hen. 

There were 45 Scots exhibited and 7 North Dutch Frills and 10 Belgians, the latter two varieties included in the show by the addition of classes for old varieties, in which one exhibitor was from south of the Border. Best Frill was awarded to Sandy Innes and that bird was also awarded 3rd Best Old Variety. My Belgian was Best Belgian and 2nd Best Old Variety in show.

The colour specials were awarded as follows:-

Best Champion Cinnamon - Gordon Alexander

Best Novice White - Lauren Wight

Best Champion Yellow, Buff and White - Donald Skinner-Reid 

 After a successful - in parts - breeding season 2022, the show season began with the major show of the year - The National Exhibition held at Stafford on 2 October 2022. This year I entered only 16 birds and while the overall number of birds exhibited was clearly up from 2021, it remained down from 2019. 

There were only 19 Scots Fancies exhibited by three exhibitors but as a proportion of the Old Varieties Show within the National, the figures held up. 

I was delighted to win Best Scots Fancy in Show and Best Belgian Fancy while my Giboso took second place in his class. More impressively, the Belgian, a son of my World Champion bird, was in the run-off for Best White Canary in Show which he didn't win but to be in the running was a great honour.