Chicken wire, Dr Peppers and recycling bins

This time last year the house and grounds were packed with visitors and we won the sandcastle building competition. This year we had no visitors and I was working so it was up to Jussi and the girl to keep up the record. The girl designed a magnificent picture of dolphins leaping from the sand. (Sorry no piccies!)but the judges awarded all prizes to sandcastles that looked like castles. Pah!

Saturday is the Gala Day itself and I think that's another post

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Sunday is all about racing - rafts, ducks and sheep. We skipped the sheep racing but here are a couple of piccies from the others.

The chicken wire and

Dr Peppers bottles was the coolest but hopeless when it came to the actual race, though most hopeless was the REUSE of the blue RECYCLING* wheelie bin. But see next year? Me and The Girl? We're going for it.

The photo journalism is a bit thin on the duck race cos I had to throw myself into the river to help rescue the ducks - the north wind had kept all the ducks clustered together and when they eventually arrived the official race stewards were

overwhelmed. Jussi was too busy laughing to record my heroism.

*Crofters instinctively understand the waste hierarchy and correctly judged re-use to be more important than recycling