Ardingly - Vintage vehicle show 2006

Pretty quiet this year comparitively, but that's nice in a way... ;)

What am I missing here? FIVE QUID?? The tank had two wheels missing!!

The CAMRA beer tent, as impressive as ever, this year there were 50 beers on offer (strongest was 9%!!) and 15 ciders! Told you the beer festival at Laughton was a bit of a joke... ;)



Amazingly this was Flyingpops' old bus to work, and next door was a bus signposted "York Way", pretty freaky! The bloke let us onboard to look around (pics of all that and much more in the full Flickr stream here if you are interested in this sort of thing)...

(wish the owner had polished it!)

Lunch was a (shared) Stilton ploughmans with a pint of Fosters for me and an Aqua Libra for Flyingpops, the guy charged me just shy of £15, but it wasn't till I got to the table and moaned about the amount that it was decided that was a little too much...with either the pint or the Aqua Libra costing in the region of £5, turns out the guy charged me the wrong amount for the ploughmans (a quid too much) and also charged me for two cups of coffee that belonged to the guys in the queue behind me! I got a refund...stilton was nice though, very creamy, but not worth £11... ;)

*LOADS* of militaria...


*LOADS* of steam engines/traction engines...


A wooden sheep...quite convincing in the "flesh" actually...from a distance I was like "Wow, that's a well behaved animal"...

The baker brought his oven with him (in the craft tent for some reason)...

And the obligatory autojumble...

(Sign reads "If the Stall is crowded please leave dog or wife outside, with instructions not to wee on the outdoor stock")

So, next year I think we'll exhibit at Ardingly instead of Laughton...maybe see you there? ;)