The Grand Torquay Roadtrip

Got back from Torquay on Friday night. The show was a bit "teh laem" - we managed to make a whole £80 in sales whilst we were there, which covered petrol and meals... hopefully we'll see some orders come in over the next few weeks off the back of it, because otherwise it wasn't really worth the time or energy or aching legs from standing around for eight hours a day.

Here you can see Ian demostrating stuff to a couple of interested teachers. You can tell how busy it was by the crowds present. Fortunately everybody found it disappointing, so it wasn't poor-quality sales techniques, it was generally rubbish. Torquay was nice though, considering it was more-or-less closed - not much to do in a seaside town off season.

On one of the evenings we went to see The Aviator in nearby Paignton, which is an excellent film, well deserving of its 217 Oscar nominations. Once again, Leonardo DiCaprio impressed me (I thought he was great in Romeo and Juliet, What's Eating Gilbert Grape and The Beach) - the only film he's in that I thought was an absolute stinker was Titanic, and sadly that seems to be the film he's best known for.

A couple of entertaining (for me at least) photos of things I saw whilst we were there...

Puerile giggling ensued at "Homophones" as I imagined a pink sparkly telephone which went "Cooeee!" when it rang. I am easily amused.

And some motorway services had these seven-fingered gloves for sale. I don;t know what that says about people living in Devon!