Marrow Celeste.

How on earth did you do that! Must be the most ingenious lantern ever!

Just amazing! Well done bampy, you are a master carver!

I am impressed well done, I bet you see some like it next year!

Fantastic ! What a good idea.

Bampy, you are So Inventive . . . no-one else would think of a Halloween marrow!! The kids will love it, and thank you for making me smile today. :)))

very easy Sticki, hollow-out, scrape flesh down to the hard skin, dessert spoon worked fine. Then I simply scraped the outer green skin with a small kitchen knife, just followed a pattern in my head. So no cutting involved apart from removal of the back which I cut top & bottom at a diagonal so it fits back in without having to use tyes. Plenty of scope for doing super dooper designs but I just had an hour so this was ok for a 1st attempt.
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Trust me Sheila, the name did'nt pop into my head until it was finished, the galleon was the only practical thing I could think of determined by the shape restrictions of said marrow so a Ghost Ship seemed appropriate for the occasion I thought.
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thanks for comments folks, possibly a tad OTT with the candles but as yet not lit so I have no idea how it will illuminate, I'll fire it up tonight & take a snap or two.

Thats very good Bampy and I love the design and name....

Brilliant Bampy!

very clever Bampy, great idea ;o)

Im gobsmacked! That is fantastic..your grandkids must totally adore you Bampy..so do I cos you never cease to amaze me with the things you think up.
David is a bit like that, sure he would love this, but havent seen him on for a while.

david is back tetrarch, i have seen a couple of comments and possibly a blog from him ~ he has changed his avatar.
i agree with tet ~ you never cease to amaze me either ~ and thats a great quality ~ thank you for sharing it with us.

Brill idea well done you.

too kind people, it is actually a courgette that got overlooked. I'll try & get some snaps of the grandbrats this w/end to see if they approve ;-))

yes please!

Sandra has done one, a marrow crocodile I think, I knew I'd seen something similar last week.
I'm now wondering just how small a lantern I can make ??

what about one of those munchkin pumpkins that are being sold or a round courgette??
or if you really wanted a challenge ~ a radish!!!

I was thinking about a grape Sticki but plummed for a tangerine, see photo ! btw: I did it just now waiting for the spuds to boil for tea, time well spent I say LOL !!!!

wow I am blown away, I can just see you walking into Ikea with this, I think they would love it ; )
Love the title, great stuff

you will be on crackerjack soon bampy ~ 'ooooh i could crush a grape' ~ cant do the accent!
or maybe blue peter could do with a new presenter!!!

you are right stevie ~ be a great light ~ could sell well!!

(nb Crackerjack 1955-1984 ; )

is that really true??? whooops!
we didnt have a tv when i was younger so i only got to watch it if i was at someone else's house!!
btw ~ i did not watch the earlier episodes!!! much too young.

I think I would have stopped watching it 76/77 but i remember the crackerjack pencil as a prize!!!

me too!!! but i would have watched it before that ~ i was married in 77!!!

Our Garden Club ran a sale in the town centre the weekend before last. We sold a few plants, excess fruit and vegetables, pots of chutney, etc.
We also ran a competition (for anyone in the town) for the biggest pumpkin which the mayor helped to judge. With next year's Olympics in mind, we called it the Marrow-thon and the idea really caught in people's imagination. I think it's now likely to become an annual event

How clever is that? well done.

great title andrew!

A Marrow-thon, that idea could go global Andrew, I'd 'run with it' as they say in the States ! ( terrible marrow-pun) but excellent concept.

Great ideas you come up with, Bampy! Few people would ever have thought of making a ship lantern out of a marrow!

Wow!! That would have looked right at home in our "pirates" themed garden, Bampy. That scary skull 'n' crossbones chills me to the marrow (groan). Ingenious idea, and great craftmanship, me 'earty. :-)

Also, love the blog title, and Andrewr's "marrowthon".
:-D)

"chilled to the marrow" good one David !! LOL

I feel a new competition coming on - the Garden Olympics. As well as the Marrow-thon, there's the Egg Plant and Spoon race and Tossing the Caper :-)

love those ideas andrew!
throwing the jalepeno?

Perhaps I should start a new blog so we discus the ideas there! (yes, that was a deliberate mis-spelling. All together now <GROAN>)

thats really good ~ yes please andrew!!