Leigh984, The creative portfolio of Leigh Spencer

A look at Cosby Yarnbomb 2024 with it`s theme of Fun & Games, Mischief & Mayhem. My film of the Cosby Yarnbomb 2024 comes in three distinct sections. Starting with sports, including the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, but first off to the Tour De France where a Knitted life sized rider has the yellow jersey, next we see Team GB diver Tom Daley represented in knitted form and asking "How Are You ?". There are flags strung all around the village giving a French feel to this Leicestershire village, we see the Eiffel tower, a swimming competition and no games would be complete without the flame burning away. Next we move onto Computer games with Kirby, Sonic and Minecraft characters all in knitted form. Pikachu and friends sit under a tree and the plants and Zombies are about to start another Vs match. Back to the Nook and it's all the fun of the fairground with Clowns, wacky mirrors and even a chance to have your fortune read by the resident fortune teller. The galloping...

The Queens Baton Relay arrives in Market Bosworth on it`s tour of the country ahead of the Commonwealth games in Birmingham. Having previously followed the relay in Leicester City Center I followed it to the village of Market Bosworth where we see the relay pass a Primary School with pupils waving flags they have made. Following the Baton Bearers along Station Road and into the square in the center of the village, we are met by hundreds of spectators cheering and clapping the baton as it passes through and onto the country park on the edge of the village. Keep a look out for a cameo from Perry the Bull mascot of the games !.

My view of the spectacular fireworks that signalled the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Filmed from just outside the Olympic park the stadium is dwarfed by Anish Kapoor`s Orbit tower. During the final moments of slumdog millionaire director Danny Boyle`s 'Isles of Wonder' Opening ceremony the tower signalled the start of the games with a ring of fireworks from its roof this was closely followed by a spectacular display from the atop of the stadium itself which answered with a show of colour, movement and a barrage of loud bangs and noise as it illuminated the East London sky.

On 29th May 2012 the Olympic Torch Relay reached its highest point visiting the summit of Mt Snowdon in Wales. The Torch was carried to the summit aboard a Snowdon Mountain Railway steam engine with the Everest mountaineer Sir Chris Bonington who then carried the flame the final few meters to the summit of the mountain cheered by an enthusiastic crowd of supporters waving welsh and union jack flags. The Steam engine and its precious cargo then travelled back down the mountain to continue its journey to London for the 2012 Olympic Games.