Scorton Steam Festival

This weekend was a Mummy weekend as Matt was away at the translator's conference in York.  The weather wasn't great, but we ignored it and soldered on.

More silliness

Saturday we decided to go to Scorton Steam Fair.  We went last year the day after we got back from Japan so went round in a Jet Lagged haze (well I did anyway).  This time we were up for having a good time and with Tom being a year older, he got a lot out of it.

Pyramid of Purple Helmets

First stop was the lawnmower racing which was very loud and very muddy as it was raining - clots of mud flying here and there. Then we went for a look around the craft and food tent and then we inspected the trucks.  Being a girl - I still don't get oogling at trucks, but Tom was enjoying himself, plus we bumped into a friend from Ingleton which helped.  By now it was raining, so we headed over to the refreshments tent and got ourselves lunch (sausage roll for Tom and a tuna bun for me).  The good thing about the weather being so rubbish was that the fair was relatively empty of people, meaning we didn't have to queue for anything and we were able to get shelter inside tents when we needed to.

At 1pm we were sat by the show ring ready to see the Purple Helmets.  We have heard of these as they are a big attraction at the Isle of Man TT - we didn't see them, but we have heard they are fun - lots of men being silly on motorbikes.  Tom and I really enjoyed the show - it was full of silly antics: a pyramid of men on motorbikes, some of them doing the splits whilst a monkey bike went under them, lots of innuendo from the commentator - all of which went right over Tom's head.  There was roll over man - who tried to roll his bike over on a cage - but had quite a bit of trouble because the grass was so wet and slippy.  A naked man playing a piano whilst being ridden round on a motorbike, shattering plates with a blunder bust, wheelie bin races - lots of silliness with plenty for adults as well as children.  We did get quite wet watching it but it didn't matter, we were enjoying ourselves.

Driving carefully!

Very wet on the swings!

We also saw a parade of stock cars, (once again very noisy) a parade of vintage cars, there were birds of prey where children were encouraged to take part in the show (Tom only got his courage up right at the end for this).  All the usual things for a 'show'.

Tom had a couple of goes on the fun fair.  He said he wanted a go on the swing carousel, which he did.  Unfortunately he decided to go on the outer ring of swings and as it started going round the rain water that had collected on the roof rush down over him.  He got absolutely drenched!  He saw the funny side though and didn't mind being wet.  Although it was a rainy day, it was warm.

We had a look around some more vehicles, had tea and a bun and then discovered that it was time for the Purple Helmets again, so we found ourselves a seat and watched them again.

We then headed home, just as the sun came out - typical!!!!!