(m&d Spoiler)-Victims of cheeses malevolent

[Dennis Jones]

(Slight M&D spoiler follows below:) 

I should be used to it by now but

 this


       kind


            of thing


                    still seems


                        to  get

  
                               to me 

           
                                       somehow:

Reluctantly put aside my M&D (Chapt.16)for my daily dose of back in blighty 
Murdoch style and am left shivering despite the heat. "Twenty people were 
injured today in a cheese rolling contest in Cooper's Hill, Gloucestershire" 
went Sky News, "including one person who was struck down and hurt by A 
PARTICULARLY LARGE DOUBLE GLOUCESTER". There followed footage of several 
modest cheeses and not so modest individuals rolling unceremoniously down 
said grassy hillside, plus an interview with the local fire chief 
congratulating himself that " in all the years I've been overseeing this 
event, we haven't had a singular fatality." I didn't catch the actual weight 
and I don't think they were talking tons here this time but...

Now I (now) know this is apparently an annual event, but it's the first time 
I personally can recall having seen it covered on national tv news.

Incidentally, is there anyone from Gloucs. on the list who has witnessed 
this event, or better, taken part? 
                                
                                d.j.