Mardi Gras and Illuminations

The Lancs DA roller coaster

This is the day when the district associations and enthusiastic individuals parade around the site in carnival procession and are judged by the NFOL committee in the main arena. The theme was to represent your county, so Essex was a parody on TOWIE and Lancashire had an outstanding walking Blackpool roller coaster, which should have won the district prize, IMHO.

Our joint pitch illuminations

We had some lunch back on the pitch and  installed our lights for the big illumination switch on.  Many people really go to town with flag poles and strings of LEDS. We managed a token display with a selection of Christmas lights and garden centre lanterns.

We had salmon and quiche for dinner in Libby and J's van and then walked around the illuminated street scenes in the display area, where you need to go to enter the illuminations contest. Essex DA were again prominent with discos and Stansted airport featuring heavily. There were some nice individual displays and even a laser show. 

 Rain was forecast overnight and the next day, so I dismantled the lights and the wind break and put most of the outdoor stuff away before we retired.