Barnstaple Pedal Car and Lawn Mower Grand Prix

A mad event that took place along the strand in Barnstaple today. Raising money for the North Devon Children's Hospice and organised by the local college, Petroc, and the local ship building firm, Babcock.

There were a handful of mad pedal cars and a gang of souped up lawn mowers, along with lots of music and fun for kids.

I think the photos probably say it all:

 Piggy's Peddlers in the fun fur pedal car with a curly tail.

 Dick's Dastardly machine from the wacky races series

 The Dastardly machine taking advntage of a lost chain on the Babcock pedal car

 Piggy wizzes (almost) past

 This orange creation was seriously fast!

Muttley takes over on the Dastardly car

And then there were they lawnmowers....................

A hairy cornering moment!

Getting near the end and a few more chances being taken..

The winner

Lap of honour

A little bit of the sound and fury.......

There was a lot of fun and some great live music, whole families and all ages

The live stage in the square outside the museum.

I took loads of photos and I'll load the rest on Flikr

Great fun day and the weather behaved itself too!

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Seems like a long time since I posted anything. So here goes. Recently the national sandcastle competition took place in Woolacombe Bay. This is an annual event to raise money for the local Hospice.

This picture shows an attempt on the world record for the most sandcastles built in an hour, unfortunately the attempt fell a few short but there are plans to try again.

Building teams hard at work on their entries for the main competition

Finished entries

 The winner 

 second prize, can you spot the flames in his nostrils?

 Another view of the winning entry

 That flaming dragon again

 Third prize from Ilfracombe Round Table

 Smiley turtle

Woolacombe Bay holiday park entry

As you can see there were some amazing entries and lots of hard work.

Well done everyone and it was a glorious hot sunny day too!

The weekend before this, Ilfracombe held it's first ever arts festival, part of the North Devon Arts Festival, it was an amazing success and I took part in the craft fair in The Lantern, a lovely converted Methodist chapel in the High Street. I didn't make many sales but made a contact with a lady who runs a gallery at Instow, where I now have a few pieces on display.

This is a recent piece I'm quite pleased with, which is now at the Waterside Gallery Instow