We had to collect a registered post item for Bob, so headed over to the depot wondering what it could possibly be. It turned out to be some Virgin vouchers (£50!) from the work trip he made to America last year, so we’re now planning how to spend them 
Then off to church to open up for slingmeet, with a quick detour en route to pick up provisions. Spent a happy couple of hours trying, demonstrating, tweaking and cooing over a variety of different slings and carriers, then in the afternoon we thought the pumpkin fair looked like fun, plus it’s in one of the places where we could possibly afford a larger house, so a useful opportunity for a nose 
There was (as I suppose was to be expected lol) an impressive array of pumpkins, including a few contenders for the national pumpkin championships. There was also a fairly stunning collection of vintage cars, tractors and traction engines, as well as a fire engine which the boys were able to inspect from all angles, both inside and out. L was too shy and newly woken-up, so just cuddled Mummy and made eyes at the firemen
The pumpkin decorating competition had some brilliant entries; J had wanted to do one, but we failed to get hold of a pumpkin in time. This was soon remedied when we found the stall (large trailer) selling pumpkins of at least twenty different varieties for silly prices with money donated to charity. We started off with a couple of different ones recommended for cooking/eating and got some decorative ones for the children thrown in for free, then when we were leaving we saw that the stall was still going (and trying hard to get rid of stock) so went back and bought a few more, which the man kindly labelled for us so we now have one good for bread, another for pies, one for soup and another for gnocchi, one for roasting (hazelnut flavour!) and another for roasting 
Now I just need to find time to do something with them all, or a safe place to store them – or failing that friends to pass them on to 
The fair ended with a display by the Fenlanders Majorettes, which has now left L with a burning ambition to be a “dancing girl” 
I had no idea there were that many different uses for pumpkins!
Some at the fair could have been used as medicine balls, wrecking balls for demolition sites or bowling balls for giants. The collection that I carried to the car was good for bicep building too.
BTW the vouchers are because I flew with Virgin Atlantic and the airmiles I earned were about to expire but not enough to get us anywhere. The Virgin group is so huge that the vouchers I redeemed them for are probably going to turn into music or DVDs. Nice.