Plans for the bank holiday...

[pritchp]

So what has everyone got planned for the bank holiday?

I've just ordered a load of cleaning/detailing products so i will be washing and detailing my car... might do my mums for her as well

 

[Matt]

Relaxing! Hopefully not having to do any work or stickers for a week

 

[Daveyb133]

working friday and monday, off saturday and sunday !! gutted.

the joys of working for a 24/7 organisation, not even double time. lieu time to be taken though

 

[Chicken]

Working friday,sunday, monday to pay for saturday when ill take car in for service and take the miss' shopping :S

 

[Mr_Ben]

Hallaton bottle kicking for me

 

[TURBO]

im working fri and sat

but then no plans for the other days so hopefuly the weather is good so maybe a bbq and some beers
:mrgreen:

hopefuly get one of the bikes out two

 

[pritchp]

Hallaton bottle kicking for me

Doing what??

 

[Karl]

Off to sunny cornwall on a cycling holiday so cant wait.

 

[Bones]

Bugger all :lol:

 

[Mr_Ben]

Hallaton bottle kicking for me

Doing what??

Courtesy of Wikipedia......
There are virtually no rules to the bottle-kicking, except that there is no eye-gouging, no strangling, and no use of weapons.[1] In the early afternoon, the hare pie is spread on the ground at a dip at the top of Hare Pie Bank,[4] which is possibly the site of an ancient temple.[7] Each bottle is then tossed in the air three times, signaling the start of the competition.[8] Each team tries to move the bottles, on a best-of-three basis, across two streams one mile (1.6 km) apart, by any means possible.
The contest is a rough one, with teams fighting to move the bottles over such obstacles as ditches, hedges, and barbed wire.[4] Broken bones are not unheard-of, and emergency services are generally on standby.[9]
After the game, participants and spectators return to the village. Those players who put in an especially good effort (for example, carrying a barrel across the goal stream or holding on to a barrel for quite some time) are helped up onto the top of the ten-foot-tall Buttercross, and the opened bottle is passed up for them to drink from before being passed around the crowd.
The festive day normally draws to a close with participants and spectators retiring to pub for drink and banter.

 

[TURBO]

Hallaton bottle kicking for me

Doing what??

Courtesy of Wikipedia......
There are virtually no rules to the bottle-kicking, except that there is no eye-gouging, no strangling, and no use of weapons.[1] In the early afternoon, the hare pie is spread on the ground at a dip at the top of Hare Pie Bank,[4] which is possibly the site of an ancient temple.[7] Each bottle is then tossed in the air three times, signaling the start of the competition.[8] Each team tries to move the bottles, on a best-of-three basis, across two streams one mile (1.6 km) apart, by any means possible.
The contest is a rough one, with teams fighting to move the bottles over such obstacles as ditches, hedges, and barbed wire.[4] Broken bones are not unheard-of, and emergency services are generally on standby.[9]
After the game, participants and spectators return to the village. Those players who put in an especially good effort (for example, carrying a barrel across the goal stream or holding on to a barrel for quite some time) are helped up onto the top of the ten-foot-tall Buttercross, and the opened bottle is passed up for them to drink from before being passed around the crowd.
The festive day normally draws to a close with participants and spectators retiring to pub for drink and banter.

WTF!! :lol:
so basicaly a fight but instead of bottling people over the head (coz thats not allowed) u kick the bottle??
:mrgreen:
i think we all need a video link..... :mrgreen:

The last bit sounds good tho

 

[Mr_Ben]

Yup, I was at Ashbourne Shrovetide Football too this year. That's basically the same but with football and over 3miles between the goaling areas.

 

[Dazza1]

I'm workin all bank holiday on rest day money plus 2 bh's in loom. Not off till next Tuesday Wednesday

 

[TURBO]

mr ben!im seeing u in a whole new light :lol:

i think iv seen the football one on the news before?

sounds like thats gona b some bank holiday mate!if u survive get some pics :mrgreen:

 

[Daveyb133]

Shrovetide football is awesome, id recommend anyone doing it, be prepared to use your elbows though, even watching it is awesome fun.

What Mr ben is doing sounds amazing, i want to go, lol

 

[Ollie133cup]

My plans include working..............grr oh well i get the friday of the wedding off .

 

[Dee1983]

Got the Easter off and ripping up the back garden grass (Hate grass, makes me sneeze) and then sort over leveling the back garden as its on the pi$$ and then build a wall to stop the mud falling as making it two levels and then lay the patio stone and somewhere in between that, go to the allotment and clean and detail the Kia Soul.

Back to work on the tue and gotta work on the royal wedding (Who is gonna come in with a truck or van for a service :? ) then prob back to it on the sat sorting the upper deck of the back garden......who needs a man :lol:

 

[weebob]

It's the start of nearly two weeks off for me, got a long list of boring adult things to do, and not in the streamy sense.

Clean the family bus,
Empty the garage and fix the roof,
Tidy the front garden,
Plant plant things,
Pimp the RS,
Bung a load of stuff on eBay,

Mostly Grim, rather be finishing off crysis 2

 

[Mr_Ben]

mr ben!im seeing u in a whole new light :lol:

i think iv seen the football one on the news before?

sounds like thats gona b some bank holiday mate!if u survive get some pics :mrgreen:

For those that don't know what I'm on about here's a short vid I took at Shrovetide

[youtube]g0rvCSkRdX4[/youtube]

 

[madmatt]

Bank Holiday?! Oh, those things I work through!

I'll be working, as always, Tomorrow and Monday.
Working on the Royal Wedding too, which is fine I don't care much for the Royals really...

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