Category Archives: Calendar Customs

The World Black Pudding Throwing Championship

We’ve visited quite a few odd events over recent weeks (most of which are still to be downloaded and documented!). This is one of the quirkiest — the World Black Pudding Throwing Championship at Ramsbottom… We bought a couple of … Continue reading →

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Thing of the week: Joust!

This week we went to see the Battle of Bosworth commemorative event, on Bosworth Battlefield in Leicester. This entailed lots of battle re-enactments, falconry demonstrations, a huge medieval market, a beer tent selling the (excellent) wares of the Williams Bros … Continue reading →

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Thing of the week: “A Very British Games”

(or: how I made a TV documentary without really knowing). A couple of months ago, an interesting email arrived in my inbox. A TV producer had spotted the string of clips about unusual British customs & traditions that I’ve been … Continue reading →

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Thing of the week: Television

Did I mention that I’d made a TV show? 🙂 A couple of months ago, I was contacted by The Community Channel, a UK freeview/satellite TV broadcaster. They’d seen the footage I’d filmed and edited for the Calendar Customs YouTube … Continue reading →

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Thing of the week: Cheese Rolling

We travelled to Gloucester for the bank Holiday, to watch the (notorious!) cheese rolling event. Apparently there also was some kind of monarchy-related thing going on at the weekend too, but I wasn’t so fussed about seeing that. It was … Continue reading →

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