My cousin Dmitri is planning to break the 100 meters record today – Rowing in a PUMPKIN. He is setting off from Trafalgar Wharf at 1pm today in a giant pumpkin that has been hollowed out. We will be there, offering Stansted Farm Shop Pumpkin soup and offering our wholehearted support in this noble vegtable effort.
It’s blowing a gale at the moment, but hopefully if he survives the 100m vegetable dash, he can then go on to complete his main aim of crossing the solent to the Isle of Wight tomorrow. This is in a modified pumpkin that has an outboard motor on the back and some additional support.
Now the exciting thing for you is that we will have a giant pumpkin at the farm shop, and you will also have the chance to buy seeds from the record breaking pumpkin at the farm shop. So next year, once we have all grown our giant pumpkins, we can have a monster vegetable regatta.
You can read more about it in the Daily Mail and the BBC websites.