Jim Parker, from the Scottish Senior Citizens' Unity Party, was among the crowds, wearing a smiley faced rosette.

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Only a fifth of voters received a visit from someone wearing a colourful rosette, according to the British Election Study.

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Its rosette of light inspired numerous poems.

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At the Alwinton Border Shepherds' Show in Northumberland (October) anyone can nominate a new category for a small fee - so if you have a unique talent for carving dinosaurs out of butternut squashes or baking cakes that taste like burgers, next year that rosette could be yours.

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We picked out a range of flavors, including the "grasshopper" (chocolate cake filled with fudge and topped with mint cream-cheese frosting, cake crumbs, chocolate chips and a buttercream rosette) and the "Elvis" (vanilla cake filled and frosted with banana-cream-cheese icing, with a swirl of peanut butter and peanut-butter chips).

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