{"id":779670,"date":"2026-09-23T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T06:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/779670\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T06:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T06:00:23","slug":"sunnyfields-farm-pumpkin-mural-unveils-sir-david-attenborough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/779670\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunnyfields Farm pumpkin mural unveils Sir David Attenborough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;We want to beat our own record&#8217;published at 18:25 BST 22 September<\/p>\n<p>18:25 BST 22 September<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A young man wearing glasses and a black top stands in front of a pile of orange pumpkins.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/dd27f89f-fed0-43c8-ae9f-90a93538ebdc.jpg.webp\"  width=\"4032\" height=\"2268\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Director of Sunnyfields Farm, Thomas Nelson, used to build the mosaic himself but now has help<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They&#8217;ve done it before and they want to do it again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thomas Nelson, director of Sunnyfields Farm, said: &#8220;Currently we&#8217;ve got two Guinness World Records for previous years and this year we&#8217;ve made the pyramid bigger for two reasons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last year&#8217;s portrait, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cn95qvrz5lgo\" class=\"ssrcss-ztter6-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">featured the late Ozzy Osbourne<\/a>, broke the Guinness World Record for largest cucurbit mosaic at 212 m sq (2,281 sq ft).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are attempting again to beat our own Guinness World Record and also when we originally built the pyramid, we didn&#8217;t do it symmetrical&#8230; so the pyramid is bigger this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;We want to beat our own record&#8217;published at 18:25 BST 22 September 18:25 BST 22 September Image caption,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-779670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}