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So you gonna go chase some cheese then Debs??

http://www.crankworx.com/whistler/mediarelease.php?story=20080721

"We want to give families in BC a chance to experience Canadian cheese in a whole new way this summer"

I think the Poms are just about to retire for the night. I'm awake, or is this a bad dream, so it must be bed time.

I have my snorerometer set to register the noise level. I'll warn them there will be an IQ test in the morning. The inhabitants of Nut Lodge will enjoy that. Most of them have mastered writing their names and the more advanced even fly broomsticks, dance on tables, crochet parachutes and eat mole stew.

It might mean you will have some lurkers to this thread but it matters not ,they have been trained in dignity, decorum and catapult usage.

To go with the cheese rolling.
The sack of coal race .
The tin bath race,on water that is.

I've been called a lot of names.......but never "Boring"
I'm sure those that know me can vouch for that.

Deb

Explains for aunty......
Vivienne=Vivienne
Yng=in
Nghymru=Wales.

Its in Cymraeg/welsh you see bach.
You know, in one of those countrys that you can hear us snoring from over there.

Well, it looks like Canadians can only ape other people's dorky competitions.

http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-strange-competitions.php

(Yes, if you google *strange canadian competitions*, it tells you.)

"Back to Britain, where this curious and frankly dangerous competition sees hundreds of people throwing themselves down a hill after a wheel of cheese – often sustaining hideous injuries. The competitions usually take place in Gloucester, but have recently arrived in British Columbia, where the “Dairy Farmers of Canada” hosted their first Annual Canadian Cheese Rolling Festival in August. The fastest one to the bottom wins the cheese."

I join Debs.

Boring lot

No........... even I can understand that.....

Just joined Viv in the anderson shelter.

Do you understand the connotations of every person's nom de plume Viv. I've often wondered how you thought up yours.

Now how can you possibly demonstrate wellie-pitching prowess if you are all sitting on your hands??

Perhaps a competition for cow riding while sitting on hands ... that would take skill, that would.

LOL - We both had the same idea at the same time.

Numb hands now.

**Sits on hands**

LadyBarbara, if you are unable to find the exit from this thread, someone will be happy to help you.

Let me try to help you before you go. The conversation to which you were not a party went like this:


AuntySherlock
Today at 05:28
... I am able to hear the mob from UK snoring, even over on this side of the planet.

JaneyCanuck
Today at 22:52
Boring lot on that little island in the North Atlantic, aren't they?? ...


But I'm sure it looks different on your monitor.

I have been told it is best to sit on ones hands at times.

Consider sitting on the hands as an option.

I have become very adept at sitting on my hands particularly on the doom and gloom board.

Janey,
Remember I'm an import, so most definitely Wellies.

Bog snorkelling race in /near tregaron.
Wet cold and slimey,the americans and canadians love it apparently.
Never been, but its only about 20 miles away.
Maybe next year.

You wouldn't know real life unless it bit you up the backside so keep your fancy words and your innuendo's about our country till you do.

Deb, perhaps you are referring to "rubber boots"?

Never catch a Canuck pitching a wellie, I don't think.

I'm seeing a fine demo of fit-pitching I think, though.

VIV runs for the anderson shelter.............



And waits for fallout to clear.

You made me google before I got through and saw your next post -- Melbas Chocolate Cow Pat. Sounds quite yummy actually. I've always thought how those Hershey's drops things look a little that way.

Eddie the cat likes the Hershey's Christmas commercial, with the little foil-wrapped drops jingling like bells. Of course the rest of you won't have seen that, because Hershey's is a US outfit. A few years ago they adjusted their chocolate bars to make them sweetier and milkier, on the Canadian model, and they're most yummy now, especially with almonds.

I'm trying to think of something dorky that gets done here to compete with riding cows and throwing chocolate ...