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National Tiddlywinks Championships

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  • BRITAIN
Oct 30 2007

Blitz, bomb, boondock, bristol, crud, gromp, scrunge, lunch or squop? There were tense times on Sunday as players concentrated on making the right move during the National Singles Tiddlywinks tournament held at Selwyn Diamond, in Cambridge. Patrick Barrie, the chairman of the English Tiddlywinks Association explains that there’s much more to tiddlywinks than just flicking counters into a cup. ‘It is in fact a complex game of strategy and tactics, which involves a fascinating mixture of manual dexterity and intellectual activity. It’s a bit like chess, but on an infinitely squared board, and you have the added difficulty of actually […]

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World Crazy Golf Championships

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  • BRITAIN
Oct 29 2007

Crazy golfers and super-heroes demonstrated their putting prowess on the weekend for a shot at becoming the World Crazy Golf Champion. 87 contestants negotiated two 18 hole courses, with obstacles that included a windmill, a waterwheel and a lighthouse for a place on the leader-board, after the first day of competition on the seafront in Hastings, East Sussex. Organised by the BMGA this years event attracted visitors from as far afield as Finland and the Czech Republic, but it was the local players who know every hole inside out, that were hot favourites to walk away with the £1,000 prize. […]

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World Conker Championships

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  • BRITAIN
Oct 15 2007

Around 400 competitors gathered to have a crack at each other’s nuts on Sunday at the World Conker Championships in Ashton, Peterborough. Perhaps someone had cast a spell over the French this weekend? Adding insult to injury after the rugby defeat, Ady Hurrell was crowned the King of Conkers by defeating runner-up John Ingram, who led the French team! The rules are simple. Each player is given a “Competition-standard” conker attached to a piece of lace and takes turns in trying to break their opponent’s nut using a swinging motion. The world tournament came about after a group of local […]

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The BLMRA British Grand Prix (lawnmowing!)

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  • BRITAIN
Oct 08 2007

Adrenalin junkies gathered this weekend to fire up their lawnmowers for the last time this season for the British Grand Prix at the Bat and Ball Pub in Wisborough Green, West Sussex. At first sight, watching screaming, back-firing and almost-out-of-control lawnmowers zooming round the lawn at speeds of up to 60 miles an hour may seem a little mad, but it seems like a much better alternative to me than staying at home to cut the grass! Founded in 1973, the The British Lawn Mower Racing Association (BLMRA) still sticks to its origins as a non-profit making organisation (any profits […]

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The vast majority of posts in this blog are about quirky & eccentric competitions & festivals. I started it in 2006 in France with a competition I’ll never forget. Where contestants battle it out to become the World Champion Pig Squeeler, or ‘Cri du Cochon’. I had little knowledge back then of quite how far my pursuit of these kind of events would lead me. I’ve travelled all over Britain (and occasionally further afield) to capture our curiosities and quirks. There’s nothing uniquely eccentric about the British, you’ll find people all over the world up to all sorts of weird and wonderful activities, but we do have a remarkable capacity to embrace the madness. ‘A Brit Different’ is the book that was born from it, my labour of love! So what next? There’s always something interesting going on, so watch this space, only time will tell!

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