Penguins and Moonboots (London Vintage Fair)

Another photo heavy blog this one. Last weekend we went to South Bank to a vintage fair. It was great, lots of people dressed up (I looked quite out of place in my running shoes), there was loads of things to see and eat and the weather was great.

So without further adieu, a pictorial blog of the London Vintage Fair...

There were lots of great vintage vehicles selling various types of food. We visited this one later in the day.

A working mobile cinema

I asked Jackie to go an stand near these people so I could get a photo of them as they had made a good effort of dressing up

This bus was filled with lots of random stuff, you could go in but we didn't, it was hot and I don't think they had aircon

Kids of all ages took to this fountain to cool down. We also took the opportunity to do some pram spotting.

These were competitors in the 'Chap Olympics' which is basically a bunch of people dressed up like English 'chaps' doing silly sports. 

The ice creams were knitted

Next to the vintage fair was a separate exhibition of table tennis tables decorated in different ways.

This one was rigged so that whenever the ball bounced on the table it made a noise linked to speakers, I think it would have been better if the people playing on this one were not so hopeless that they missed the table lots. 

You can't really see it very well but right next to the river they have set up a sandy beach that kids were playing in

Again this is from a different exhibition but continues the fox theme from previous post, it's a massive fox made out of hay, I imagine it's a terrible fire risk but guess they've thought of that. 

Looking beautiful next to a garden at the end of the 'beach'

A band that was playing as were were leaving (via the ice cream van). They're called We Were Evergreen, they're quite good...http://www.wewereevergreen.com

As I like to include a video from time to time, I've found this one from We Were Evergreen which is appropriately called Vintage Car, it's not my favourite of their songs but the title fits so there you go...

Jackie has decided we need to include the video below, it's the We Were Evergreen song that we saw them play and we both like, the video is well done too, hope you enjoy...

So that was the Vintage fair, there was lots of looking at vintage stalls but no purchases. The only shame was that it was so hot.

Lots of things to report on the blog so check back often over the next week and we'll try and catch up, but don't expect anything too exciting.