Volksworld Show 2010 pics

So, having missed the Volksworld show for the last couple of years (thanks not least to getting married on it's regular weekend slot) Thomas saved up his pennies and bought his Mummy an advance Saturday entrance arm band for a Mothering Sunday gift (which she was very pleased about indeed)...after baby swimming we piled into Poppy the Beetle and zoomed as quickly as we could to Sandown Park (near Esher), however, being a bit later than we would normally be (i.e. crack of dawn), by the time we got to the Esher Park *junction* on the motorway, the queue to even pull off to start the painful slog towards the venue was several miles long!

Spotting a cheeky splittie jumping the queue and continuing down the motorway we decided to copy (and hopefully take advantage of some local knowledge), turned out, after loosing them several times, frantic bashing at the Tomtom only telling us to "Turn around when possible", it finally managed to work out another route, and we roared triumphantly up to the entrance to the car park only to be told it had been completely full since before 10am, even waving our "for sale" sign didn't get more than a shrug from the guy in HVJ blocking our way, as he handed us a map showing other car parks in the area...bah! Anyway, we quickly found a spot in the council car park (by the tiny farmers market), popped Thomas in his borrowed baby carrier (thanks Absolute Beginner!)

- and made our way through the car park towards the show entrance -

- enjoying even the sights of the car park (not often you can say that)... ;)






- including a bit of "work in progress" -


- someone that obviously got a bit lost ;) -

- and someone who did an almost perfect disguise job on their Honda(?) mini-MPV...

- we took a look around all the shiny bugs and buses in the main halls (including some interesting new raised vehicles) -







- marvelling at these (never seen before) Baby hammocks attached to a few of the campers -



- and some seriously lowered vehicles...!

Poked around the shopping (although it felt like there were slightly less stalls this year) -

- loved these flame boots, absolutely custom made for rainy years at Santa Pod -

- and these "Plain Lazy" flasks "Don't wake me, I'm busy"...hehe... ;)


...and then we popped out onto the stands -

- to watch the "how many people can fit in/on a VW Beetle" -



- Bug Jam - quite literally...! I think they managed 94 this year...although I saw at least four people walk off without being counted (silly lot)... ;)

- then I had to run out and put some more money on Poppy (as the council office was pay and display) while Flyingpops and Thomas went to catch up with old friend Sam (hello!) and have a little ride in his beach buggy (which he thought was everso good!) -

- then we went for a quick pint, and watched someone making a real mess in the bar while we were waiting for the barrel to be changed... ;)

A lovely (if a little tiring with the baby carrier) day, we're already talking about next year... ;)