To celebrate Royal Ascot this weekend, we’re giving you a sneak peek of “A Day at the Races” – a panel from the million bloke march.

Growing up on the south coast of England, I was fortunate enough to be near some of the most beautiful race tracks in the world. I have fond memories of Glorious Goodwood, the steeplechase at Fontwell Park, Ascot and Newmarket.

I have even fonder memories of running up and down the rows of bookies trying to find the ‘best’ odds, eating too much hog-roast – and meeting the awesomely insane John McCrick!

So what is the million bloke march exactly?

Inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry, the goal is to create a seamless image that tells the story of the littleblokes and their world in 244 panels. Two more panels and 500+ littleblokes will be needed to complete the scene – so look out for more updates!!

Each panel contains 250-400 littleblokes, which means at the end we’ll have close to 80,000 littleblokes! But why stop there? We may be little, but we dream big! So why not draw one million littleblokes? No – seriously, why not?

This means we’ll need to create over 3000 panels … and by my calculations it should only take 24 years … best get started!

MH.