September round up

Well another month has been and gone. It has made me wonder where the time for blogging went?

September 2012 - marked by the Paralympics in London, wonderful end-of-summer sunshine, and the drawing in of the evenings once more.

Here's a few things I got up to.

Preston Guild

I got together with my husband way back in 1999: 13 years ago. He is Preston born and bred, and way back then told me of the one-in-twenty year event that was the Preston guild.

Well the last was 1992, and so 2012 was my first Guild.

What is the Guild, well a city festival: the sum of many parts.

Too many things went on to list, so here is a snapshot of our weekend on the guild.

1) Preston Cake City

Yes, a giant cake map of Preston was built in a big top. Contestants got their aprons on and set about to recreate the best landmarks in the city. My sister in law's entry was the law courts, as below.

Real thing here

Kids made cars during the day to add to the map

My favourite entry

The completed city before being carved up for all the spectators.

Winning entry here.

2) Retro cinema.

After much cake assembly, queuing and crowd shuffling, we trooped off to watch Bugsy Malone in the open air cinema on Saturday night.

 

Free popcorn for everyone!

3) Sunday while the cake city was being put together we went off to the 50s event in the Spiegeltent and learnt a bit of jive!

Me in action

With aching limbs, we headed back to the cakes, running into this band of chefs serenading some ladies along the way.

The weekend finished up with a picnic in the park in glorious sunshine.

Live music to eat by

Thoughts of the weekend. Well, not sure it was momentous enough to be 20 years in the making. The crowds were unbelievable and made getting around difficult. But the events themselves were fantastic, as were the moments sat in the sunshine with family and friends.