Shirley Flynn was only 6 years old when she received her first blue ribbon. ‘My children laugh like mad now, but I won it for my handwriting in the Kelmscott show in 1941,’ she says.
By entering the competition, Shirley was following in her grandparents’ footsteps. Orchardists at Manjimup in Western Australia’s south-west, her mother’s father won prizes for his export quality apples, while Sh
