Category Archives: Bizarre

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: 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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Thing of the Week: Butser Wicker Man

Giant neo-pagan equinox-worship effigies burning in the night. What’s not to like? Butser Ancient Farm Beltane Festival, 2012. (Click pic to embiggen) (And yes — technically — this is thing-of-last-week… but this is the first chance I’ve had to post … Continue reading →

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Haxey Hood

My first vid of the new year, showing the 700-year old tradition of “Haxey Hood”… Quite pleased with this one; I’ve always found these mass football games to be a bit difficult to film, since you usually can’t really see … Continue reading →

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Xmas Travels

For some inexplicable reason, instead of spending Boxing day morning happily sleeping off the gastric over-indulgences of the day (and night) before, I found myself 130 miles from home, filming obscure yuletide customs in the suburbs of Sheffield. Sword dancing … Continue reading →