Hello from Sunday night, and a field walking, car showing me!

Hello everybody,Well, this is a turn-up for the books.Oxfordshire seems to have gone from winter to summer overnight.The weather turned and suddenly we have highs of 26 degrees, full-on summer dress weather, and I didn't pack for that...lol.But the fields are so tempting that, heat or no heat, I'm walking across them almost every day.As I walk I see the village children enjoying their regular after-school activity.And I have a chance to check in with our neighbours to see what's new.Along the ditches, the yellow flag irises have doubled in height in the past two days.And there are millions of dandelions everywhere.So many that I didn't feel guilty for picking some and twisting them into a dandelion crown.It only takes minutes but it leaves you with yellow hands...lol.(tutorial is here)So I put it on and continued my walk.Within minutes I was being circled by one or two of those huge flying grape bumblebees.They followed me and buzzed around me in great circles for a couple fields.I tried to get a photo for you but they were too fast for me. I managed to get a photo of a bumblebee bum! :DSunday Robert and I jumped into my TVR and hooned X country to the Bister Heritage Sunday Scramble; a thrice-yearly event held in an old WWII airfield.Since we were driving a heritage car, we were sent to the show grounds instead of the filed parking lots.We looked around for other TVRs and found the TVR Club area and parked up there.Most of the cars were modern TVRs and mine was the only one of two vintage cars there.We looked around the massive show area and headed into the complex of buildings.This is my favourite part of this car show.I love that all the buildings and airplane hangers are open and various companies set up displays for their engineering or selling trades.Some of the more valuable cars are housed in the hangers too.You never know what you can find.Here is a Datsun like my son has. I took some photos for him.Here is one of my favourite cars ever; a Jag E type!I've been threatening Robbie with a new project. Ever since I was a little girl, I wanted a car like Mr Toad from Wind in the Willows.So I always look around for the best "Toad" car I can see, and I come back to these.They are Alvis cars from the mid 20s.And this one is it.This beautiful, soft grey with black two seater, convertible, little dickie seat for the huge pot of margaurites and picknic basket.This one is perfect.And it happens to be for sale too! The only problem is that the price is 32,000 GBP, which is about $53,000 canadian! Yikes!This is one of R's favourite cars in the show. Amazing art deco details.And here is another one he loved. Except he said he wouldn't have done the roof chop.I loved this weddgie thing. No idea what it was. AC? Have to look it up.There was nothing here even remotely close to Robert's Medusa, but this one was very interesting and one-of-a-kind.So as the day wore on, we went back to my car and sat in the shade side for our lunch picnic, and some TVR people wandered by. This is our new friend Paul who we spent a good time chatting to.Then we met up with some of our Turbo mini friends, walked around some more......and by the time we were ready to go home, there were only two or three TVRs left!Anyway, that's it from our week and weekend. Hope you've all had an amazing week and are looking forward to your week ahead.It's back to work for us. Art for me and Medusa for R.Any special plans for your week ahead?Hope spring/autumn is bursting forth in abundance in your corner of the old globe. :D

The beauty and the beast at Blenheim

Here's something!I learned how to grab a still image from the GoPro movie files!Ha!Prepare to be inundated with more and possibly more interesting photos...lol. (here's a GoPro still)On Monday, Robbie and I jumped into our TVRs and hooned x-Oxfordshire to Blenheim.The drive was glorious and we expected it to take the usual 20 or so minutes, so we had a great time chasing each other (actually, what it looked like was me in my V6, trying to keep up to R's V8 turbo charged engine), but then we got stuck in a 15 minute queue trickling into the palace grounds.By the way, R's car is called Clara, as in Clara Bow, so I have to stop calling it beasty.(Hmm, my car doesn't have a name yet)So we finally got thru the queue and drove the cars straight into the show grounds, instead of into the parking lots. We didn't even ask...lol...and looked around for other TVRs but couldn't see them right away, so we parked up in our car year categories.As soon as I turned the car off, a little steam started escaping from under my hood.More gremlins!This time a bit of a leak somewhere, maybe?I tried to get Robbie's attention, but as soon as he parked up, he had a crowd around him! This always happens.But my pretty car got loads of attention and I saw four people take photos of it within just a few minutes. :DAnd, just parked up for a while, the car cooled off and the temps came down.Then the announcer called all older convertibles and sports cars into the central show.So I said let's do it!Robbie said, "really? No."But I said "please please please", and so he did.Then we went for a little walk and found the TVR club. Now we're not members of any club, but we asked if we could quietly trickle in and join the other TVRs.The club people said, "yes, no problem, the more the merrier". :DI said, "thank you, and, while I'll trickle in, Robert may not be so inconspicuous".So we jumped back into the cars and R blipped the throttle and roared...slowly...into the TVR club area.Yeah, I see you...and so does everyone else...lol.So we parked up the cars and I took the GoPro off the headrest and turned around...And there was another group around Robbie.Half hour later, and the group just got bigger.I was getting pretty hungry, so found a near-by tree, spread out our picnic blanket, took off my shoes and sunhat......walked back to the cars, grabbed our picnic basket and persuaded R to join me.Even with no owner there, Clara attracted a lot of attention.After our lunch, we went for a tour of the show grounds to see the other cars.We started with the TVRs.Here's a beautiful TVR M just like Robert's, but unmodified.That's something. Car club members can sometimes be very purist about their cars and a bit anti modifications, but mostly everyone is friendly and welcoming.Here's a yellow S2 like mine.And here is a classic 1980s wedge.The thing about the wedges; people seem to either love them or hate them.I loved this one in this golden colour.And here is our new friend Barry, who I met thru the TVR S FB group and his lovely S2 Garv.Isn't it stunning? I love the black and white contrast.We toured the rest of the field and I spied my new look!Love the ruby slippers...lol.Also, love the VWsHere is a beautiful mini engine like mine that I'm working on now for my grey mini.And look at this stunning vintage mini with a complete modernisation.Kind of cool.Interesting prismatic paint job.We walked past the bikers who were all called into the show grounds just then.Love that one guy's passenger. :DThen we came across this Batmobile.Oh people know how to have fun!A few more lovely cars......before we went to get icecream.Then we walked back to our cars, said goodbye to our new friends,and raced each other back home.We each got a metal show vehicle plaque for this year, and just before he roared out, a man came running up to Robert and awarded him the TVR car club mug for the best pre 1980s TVR!Well, if you can believe that...lol.