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Totnes Orange Races

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Aug 20 2009

Every year the Totnes Elizabethan Society host a series of tricky and sticky races down the town’s steep high street involving the humble orange. This year it was held on Tuesday, to coincide with the Elizabethan Market. The idea is to be first through the finishing tape, with your orange, or at least part of it, having kicked or thrown it ahead of you whilst running the course. You don’t have to finish with the same orange you started with, as there are no rules to prevent competitors from pinching each other’s, and in all honesty it’s not as though […]

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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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