Far far a-weigh
Gather round, children, and I'll teach you how you can emulate my triumph in guessing the weight of the pumpkin at the Wisley Harvest Festival 2015.
I have unfortunately not got a picture of the vegetable in question; at the time, the stall was a bit cluttered with people and didn't make a terrribly good composition, and of course I wasn't expecting it to be so significant!
So I went trawling through the archives to see if I could find something similar...
Well, last year we found a display of carved pumpkins around a tree at Richmond Park. We didn't go to Wisley, so we don't know what might have been there.
2013: We found a pumpkin inside an oven at Leith Hill Place!
We did go to Wisley, but If there were any pumpkins, I didn't photograph them.
In 2012, we didn't do anything at all to fit the theme, so here's a moody autumn tree instead.
2011, it was a lot warmer for Wisley, but still no photographic evidence of pumpkins. And I wouldn't want people to think I only take pictures of pretty girlies.
2010: We did find some pumpkin lanterns at Petworth House.
BUT LOOK!!! It's the 2010 Wisley Pumpkin!!! I didn't enter the competition, though. This pumpkin is about the right size, but a different shape, so we won't use it for the lesson.
2009. Lots of pumpkins at Wisley, but no guess-the-weight competition this time that I recall.
Ok, 2008 is another year with nothing relevant, so let's have a shiny Prince Albert in the sun. After the Royal Parks Half-Marathon as it happens.