Slindon Pumpkin Festival

There's only two weeks till Halloween, and a popular family tradition around this time of year is going out to find the biggest and best pumpkins to pick!

This year, look no further than Slindon in West Sussex - known as Britain's pumpkin capital!  At their annual festival we're sure you'll be impressed with what they have to offer...

The village is well know for its autumnal displays, and adopts a different theme each year to create fun and interesting collages using over 50 different types of pumpkin available to purchase! The late Ralph Upton grew pumpkins and squashes here for over 40 years and his son has since taken over, keeping the impressive pumpkins growing as strong as ever! 

It makes for a great family trip - the kids will be spoilt for choice with all the different shapes and colours! Halloween may just be once a year, but in the tiny village of Slindon this wonderful variety of pumpkins is celebrated at a huge scale, and now is the time to go! Find out more here.

Where do you go to pick your pumpkins?

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Shoreham Airshow!

As one of the premier family airshows in the UK, the Shoreham Airshow is a brilliant event that attracts the best UK and European display acts to its event each year.

Taking place next weekend on the 30th and 31st of August, the Airshow is a family fun day, with aircraft displays and exciting aerobatic displays. If you are a plane enthusiast, this is an event for you. The event this year will also see a new attraction which is a World War Two Scenario!

Held to support the work of the Royal Air Forces Association, this event raises so much money for this great cause, which provides comradeship to all members of the Royal Air Force and Royal Air Force Regiment. Since the show first started it has raised over £1.8 million for the RAFA.

Find out more information here and enjoy this exciting day!

Tulley's Puzzle Park

If you are looking for something different to do this Summer in the last weeks of the Summer holidays, look no further than Tulley's Farm in West Sussex! Tulley's Farm is a brilliant farm with a world wide reputation of family fun!

Happening this Summer is the farms country puzzle park, which includes loads of activities, including giant games, mini mazes and logic puzzles for the kids to get involved in. They also have their giant maize maze, which might drive you mad but is guaranteed excitement for all the family.

Visit Tulleys Farm website for opening times and tickets and give yourself and the kids a great day out!

We're all moved in!

Thank you so much everybody for your messages during our big office move. We are now all moved in to our new HQ in Hove, after a big weekend clearing out the old office and then moving everything into the new one.

We've shown you some sneak peeks along the way, but we can now show off our new office to you, which we hope you love as much as us! We will be posting new photos on our Instagram over the next few weeks, showing off our brilliant new space!

This was our old space, all cleared and cleaned with everything on the way to the new office:

Here's some snippets of our new space:

Keep up with the Ellie Ellie journey on our Facebook! 

Arundel Food Festival!

Saturday the 19th and Sunday the 20th of October 2013 sees the Arundel Food Festival take place in the community of Arundel!

Celebrating the fourth annual food festival, events take place throughout the town and surrounding countryside on the 19th and 20th as well as the following week.

The historic market town of Arundel is uniquely positioned between the idyllic South Downs National Park and the Sussex coast.

 

This enables the festival to provide some of the freshest and tastiest food and drink in the South East for a great weekend!

With great events going on throughout the festival, there are many enthusiastic participants taking part in the festival.

Saturday sees the Arundel Farmers Market, which is a great way to kick-start the festival and with more than 40 stalls it brings together the best food and drink suppliers across West Sussex!

With other events such as bread making, cheese tasting, fudge making and the beer and cider festival, the weekend is sure to be a great weekend for food lovers!

To find out more about the festival visit the website now!

Fontwell Races! October Festival

Fontwell Park in West Sussex brings a thrilling 2 day festival full of brilliant entertainment.

If you fancy a day out with friends or family, Fontwell Park has it covered! There will be the excitement of racing mixed with food and drink at the festival. Starting this Friday, the 4th of October, and running till Saturday Fontwell October Festival will be a busy event full of live music and racing.

There are two enclosures to choose from and ticket options available for both days! Take a look at the website for more information!

 

Take a look at the website now! And enjoy the festival and a day out at the races!