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| World Black Pudding Throwing Championships |
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 Ecky Thump! An event we may have missed on Sept 11th was The World Black Pudding Throwing Championships.
The new world champion is an Australian.
See this report from the Lancashire Telegraph.
http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/9245713.Report__World_Black_Pudding_Throwing_Championships_2011/
TV DUO the Hairy Bikers led one of the most bizarre world championships in the sporting calendar yesterday – Ramsbottom’s World Black Pudding Throwing Championships.
The food critics, chefs and travel writers, David Myers and Simon King headed to The Oaks, in Bridge Street, to lead hundreds of hopefuls attempting to gain the prestigious title.
Contestants competed to dislodge the highest number of Yorkshire puddings from a 20ft high ledge by throwing three black puddings, supplied by Chadwicks of Bury.
Visitors from all over the world flocked to the town to battle it out for a £100 top prize and the honour of being a bona fide world champion.
Australian Warwick Turner scooped the title after dislodging eight Yorkshire puddings from a 20ft high ledge.
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Posted by jeffers at 13/09/2011 22:01 GMT |
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| Graeme Property Gossip, Bill on Men's Hour, Slapstick clips on Youtube, & more |
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 * Graeme was mentioned in the Daily Mail's Hothouse Property Gossip article on 29 Aug which appears online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/property/article-2031378/HOTHOUSE-PROPERTY-GOSSIP-One-Show-Matts-year-sale.html Here's the relevant excerpt:
FORMER GOODIE'S SWEDISH DESIRES
Former Goodie Graeme Garden, 68, has lived in the same house in Chipping Norton for 30 years and has no plans to move. But after his son Tom, 30, moved to Malmo in Sweden, the comedian has thought of getting a flat there.
‘Property is very cheap there,’ he says. ‘You can buy a studio flat for £30,000. I’m seriously thinking of buying one.’
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* An article titled "Goodie Bill Oddie launches celebration of generations" from earlier today (31 Aug) appears on the This is Bristol website at http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Goodie-Oddie-launches-celebration-generations/story-13236097-detail/story.html The website includes a photo of Bill with some of the attendees.
Here's the paragraph mentioning Bill: "Broadcaster and naturalist Bill Oddie launched the five-day programme of activities and entertainment, which this year has taken the concept of coming together as its theme. Yesterday's opening event gave fans the chance to meet the birdwatcher, broadcaster, actor, television presenter and conservationist who has resolutely decided never to be too grown up."
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* Thanks to the Saucy Gibbon site for the news that Bill appears on BBC Radio 5' "Men's Hour" Sunday (28 Aug) for a discussion about "how men deal with depression in the modern world".
The show is available from the BBC iPlayer until this Sunday evening (UK time) from
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b013wyrn/Mens_Hour_Mindfulness_and_Depression/
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* Bristol Silents, the organization which organizes the Bristol Slapstick Festivals, has posted some clips used in last year's festival on its YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/SlapstickFest
Of special interest is part 2 of the documentary about Fred Karno, at http://www.youtube.com/user/SlapstickFest#p/u/8/X8Pxfr-MQiQ. This includes footage of a 1972 dinner at Karno's "Karsino" resort (prior to the run down building's demolition); at about 11 minutes 46 seconds into the film you can catch a brief glimpse of Tim and Graeme.
Also on this YouTube Channel are clips that were shown during the :Slapstick Special Event: The Goodies in Conversation" last November - note this is footage that was shown onscreen during the Q&A and presentation, such as clips from The Goodies and tributes to the trio, not footage of the Q&A and presentation themselves (which can be found online at http://www.dshed.net/goodies-conversation). The new YouTube "stuff from the screen" clips can be found at
http://www.youtube.com/user/SlapstickFest#p/u/4/iqLsgkSScsc
http://www.youtube.com/user/SlapstickFest#p/u/3/6TWM4suyxI0
and http://www.youtube.com/user/SlapstickFest#p/u/2/OEXZD2wNodU
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* Extra Screening of the classic silent film "The Lost World" with accompaniment by Graeme's son John Garden have been scheduled for September & October. The following article, which includes details about the screenings as well as two brief sample clips, comes from
http://bristolsilents.wordpress.com/2011/08/26/the-lost-world-extra-screenings/
The Lost World – Extra Screenings
August 26, 2011
Following three successful screenings of The Lost World in various venues in the SouthWest, Bristol Silents, in collaboration with John Garden, are thrilled to announce a handful of further dates across the UK.
John is Scissor Sisters musical director and keyboard player and will be providing a live sound track to this innovative, stop-motion dinosaur film. Featuring pioneering animation techniques from Willis O’Brien, just prior to his work on King Kong, this silent classic is both a dramatic and enchanting re-telling of Conan Doyle’s literary classic.
“I’m hoping to re-imagine the score as if it was a 1980s sci-fi film, which is when I originally saw the film and when movies like Blade Runner and Star Wars were about. I want to bring The Lost World back into the fold of these classic sci-fi films.” – John Garden.
The dates and venues for the screenings are as follows:
Friday 24th Sept Duke of Yorks, Brighton 10.30pm £8.00/£6.00 box office 0871 902 5728
Saturday 25th Sept Barbican Cinema, London £10.50-£7.50 Book tickets at http://www.barbican.org.uk/film/event-detail.asp?id=12609
Thurs 13th October Phoenix Cinema, Exeter 7pm £7.00/£5.00 Box office 01392 667080
Friday 14th October Turner Sims, University of Southampton 8pm £10.00/£9.00 Friends £8.00 Students £6.00 Box Office 023 8059 5151
Sunday 16th October Cornerhouse, Manchester 4pm £7.50/£5.50 Box Office 0161 200 1500
There is also another screening that we’re working on but have yet to get 100% confirmation on. Should it come together it promises to be a rather special. Watch this space. Or the twitter space. Or the Facebook space.
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Posted by lisa at 31/08/2011 19:28 GMT |
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| Graeme Garden attending RCV's silver jubilee |
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Stephanie Flower, CEO of Ryder-Cheshire Volunteers, tweeted that Graeme Garden will be attending their Silver Jubilee event National Conference - 'The Personalisation of Adult Social Care: Overcoming the challenges facing providers and practitioners'.
The conference is on Wednesday 21st September, 2011 at the Crowne Plaza, NEC Birmingham, UK.
Graeme is the Patron of RCV.
Here is the tweet:
@StephFlowerRCV (Stephanie Flower)"Delighted that Graeme Garden, our patron, is attending our Silver Jubilee reception in September . Great opportunity to mark our 25th year."
The RCV website, with message from Graeme, can be found here: http://www.rcv.org.uk/rcv/
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Posted by jeffers at 28/08/2011 11:27 GMT |
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* BBC Radio 4 Extra has begun repeating the first series of "The Right Time", a 2001 sketch comedy series whose cast includes Graeme Garden along with Eleanor Bron, Clive Swift and Neil Innes. The first episode is available on the BBC iPlayer until next Thursday morning at 
