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The Palnackie World Flounder Tramping championships! Not taken part but have spectated :) They don't seem to have their own website, but that's not too surprising...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flounde...
just off the top of my head...
The Lewes Bonfire Societies put on a good show each year on bonfire night, if that counts.There's that cheese rolling in Gloucestershire as well.
That's quite a selection Rosemary, brilliantly eccentric traditions :-)
Jim wrote: "doesn't Canada have a tourist industry?"No. We don't like people dropping round. They mess up the carpets.
Being weird is just one benefit that centuries of inbreeding brings us.
Do the Derbyshire well-dressings count as festivals?
What about the World Mountain Bike Bog Snorkelling Championships?
Kath wrote: "Do the Derbyshire well-dressings count as festivals?"I think so
Richard wrote: "What about the World Mountain Bike Bog Snorkelling Championships?"Another classic
Slaithwaite moonraking.I saw a presentation about this at a storytelling festival, which showed slides of all the community making huge objects with lanterns fixed inside, then the procession and how they rake the moon out of the canal. The theme changes every year apparently, so they make different things as well as the moon itself. Haven't been able to attend in person unfortunately.
Love it. I've heard the term but didn't know there was a festival ofthem!
Neither did I till I went to the storytelling festival a couple of years back where a couple did this presentation. They make puppets and other things and they brought along a crescent moon with a lantern inside, which was stunning when the lights in the room were turned off. And the slides they showed made it clear that it is a pretty spectacular event.
Are you only interested in British festivals, Jim?
I am for the purposes of this particular exercise.Frankly I've had to convince someone that if she wants 'ALL' British festivals she doesn't want an article, she wants a book!
Pam wrote: "Neither did I till I went to the storytelling festival a couple of years back where a couple did this presentation. They make puppets and other things and they brought along a crescent moon with a ..."sounds stunning
Jim wrote: "I am for the purposes of this particular exercise.Frankly I've had to convince someone that if she wants 'ALL' British festivals she doesn't want an article, she wants a book!"
Shame. Cuz I know of some really interesting international ones.
Perhaps a collection of books?
Jim wrote: "Pam wrote: "Neither did I till I went to the storytelling festival a couple of years back where a couple did this presentation. They make puppets and other things and they brought along a crescent ..."I have a not very good photo that I was going to post but I haven't worked out how to post photos on the forum.
Over there on the top right is a cluster of links.Click photos and you'll soon sort it out.
Upload it there, then copy the URL in here.
Did that make sense?
Thanks Patti, I forgot there was a place for group photos. I've uploaded it but I think I need to do something different with the link than the normal. I tried putting an img scr thing inside the normal tag but that hasn't quite done it. Then I tried the img src tag on its own without the a href bit. Still scratching head at present.
Oh, thanks. I meant I was trying to work out how to show an actual image in the forum post itself instead of a link. OK, well that gets the job done.
GL will have to share that magic with you. It has something to do with the 'some html is okay' link thingy.
I tried it with one of my photos I loaded in here and it didn't work.
Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "I tried it with one of my photos I loaded in here and it didn't work."I'm disillusioned.
MmmmmmmmcheesemmmmmmmI'll be needing a heavy duty grater.
Until this year the world poohsticks championships was held up the road at Wittenham lock. It's now moved to the Windrush, near Witney cos "the Thames is too busy, and prone to flooding" (it's a flood plain, duh...)
Well fancy that, a flood plain that floods
The Ashbourne shrovetide football is a 3 day event and amazing. The goalposts are 3 miles apart and the town is prepared by boarding up shop windows in case the 'hug' breaks them. A specially made and decorated football it 'turned up' by an invited VIP. The Haxey Hood is another game - I think that's New Year. Both these 'games' involve brute strength, cunning, mud and lots of alcohol.
The Mari Lwyd is another tradition in the Gwaun Valley where they celebrate the New year on the Julian calender. Its a horses skull on a stick and the local children take it from house to house. They sing and receive cake, a bit like first footing in Scotland.
The Well Dressing at Tissington (Derbyshire) is worth looking at too.
One thing that struck me was that either the Welsh ones are all advertised in Welsh and don't come up on Google, or in sheer numbers they're swamped by Scots and English ones
Did anyone see the Shrovetide. Ashbourne football on BBC breakfast last week. I also heard of a Leicestershire tradition which sounded very similar. Played with 3 small wooden barrels. One solid wood and the other two filled with beer. That too is played over 3 days with the goals about 3 miles apart and dates back to the same sort of time.
Three days makes it sound like the 'test match' equivalent to a lot of these traditions :-)
Well it certainly is testing, its cold often freezing and rivers play a big part. One day. The Hug went through my garden. I could only tell by the muddy footprints down the drive. Rain doesn't stop play either.
Anybody got any good ones :-)