Cheese Rolling

[Gix11]

While I'm back I've managed to have timed it well enough to catch a traditional event from my home town which I haven't seen for many years, the ancient art of cheese rolling. The rules are simple - take a round 10" diametre cheese, roll it down a hill as steep as a cliff and run after it as fast as you can. The winner is handsomely rewarded with the cheese and maybe a neck brace - second prize is a tenner. Big stakes here, I can see why you'd want to do it. Bloody mental cases. No wonder I'm deranged.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rmED3lVGvE

My video's rubbish after it's resolution is lowered by Youtube, but check this also:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/gloucestershire/entertainment/festivals/cheese_rolling/

My personal favourite bit being cheese cam head at the bottom of this page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/gloucestershire/content/articles/2007/05/25/cheese_camera_feature.shtml

[alfiestorm]

You were one of the lucky ones then Gix and learned to read a map and navigated around the cattle grids and escaped from those Gloucester hill billy's ain't that rite my lovely :D

[Gix11]

Yea, but spot the VB t-shirt in the helmet cam video. Bloody Aussie came second. (This is all last year's footage on that site though).

[alfiestorm]

yep spotted that one.

Crazy stuff that chasing cheese down hill

[Jockney Rebel]

ur all mad i tell you... mad
suppose it s no different to chuckin telegraph poles about tho or big rocks to prove how much of a nutter u are

[BANDITROD]

dont forget breakin watermelons on ya head isnt that what they do up QLD way somewhere im pretty sure that a bloke up that way holds the record:)