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Curmudgeons' Corner 3. I blame it on the scapegoat🐐

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    You mean that some folk would have to carry two wives 😮. That’d serve ‘em right 🥳

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    It would be an unfair advantage if the wife was the bigamist. She'd have to harness them together Ben Hur style.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    edited July 2019
    I think they do allow 'non conventional' couples. I vaguely recall a bit about it on Breakfast TV where Steph wotshername carried the little sports reporter chap. I assume on the basis that if he'd been trying to carry her, her feet would probably have still been on the floor which I imagine counts as cheating. As far as I know, that are not in any sort of long term relationship.

    Cheese Rolling is definitely a spectator sport. It has a number of key advantages over most televised sports: 1, it only happens once a year. 2, no animals are harmed but a few people often get quite seriously hurt. 3, it's technically banned on health and safety grounds but they still do it anyway. 
    It's right up there with carrying lighted tar barrels in Ottery (another one you missed, @B3 ) for being so stupidly dangerous, it's right off the HSE's scale
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited July 2019
    Of course if you're Spanish, you can indulge in an even more stupid sport once a year.
    Just checked out the ottery tar thing. That may be even more stupid than the bull run. 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Let's hope they don't turn gardening into a competitive sport.  Oh, I forgot, it already is for some people.
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    One year I'll get to see the Ottery barrels again - best 5 November ever!

    I couldn't watch cheese rolling. It is SO terrifyingly painful even to see a snippet of a video. I always think someone's going to die.
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    Mind you, I don't know how I didn't die or get horribly maimed at the tar barrels.
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    edited July 2019

    Cheese rolling.
    My Gran used to live near Brockworth, where it happens, so I vaguely remember seeing it as a child.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Someone l used to work with was a volunteer for St John Ambulance , she said the Cheese Rolling was the one event where they could guarantee plenty of "customers".....
  • RubytooRubytoo Posts: 1,630
    edited July 2019
    Thanks very much for the Dwile links and advice. I also had to go out and water wilting things. To be frank it sounds a bit messy.

    I was never the same after forgetting the proper name for Epimediums...do not go searching for Bishops hats...

    Cheese rolling is okay if you do it with mini Baby bels down our gently sloping drive.

    Significant other carrying is also inadvisable here these days too. :D

    There is nothing wrong with hockey I was really good at it at school.
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