30 Day Fanfic Meme - Day 26

[dimity_blue]

26 – What is the oddest (or funniest) thing you've had to research for a fic?

Cheese rolling, and ye age olde annual tradition of chucking oneself down a steep hill in pursuit of said cheese. Apparently, the inhabitants of Cooper's Hill in Gloucestershire have been doing this for a few hundred years now.

leesa_perrie posted a Sentinel challenge about (IIRC) Jim and Blair going on a weird holiday and since there isn't much (IMO) that beats chasing cheese down a steep hill, that's the one I went with.

Comments

[admiralandrea.livejournal.com]

Bwahaha! You know, they've tried to ban that on health and safety grounds?! It's wonderfully odd and so very English *g*

It features on the local BBC news every year as well.

[dimity-blue.livejournal.com]

Of course they tried to ban it. I am actually surprised they didn't manage it.

It's brilliantly bonkers. I wonder who first came up with the idea?

[leesa_perrie]

LOL! Lots of fun!! And yeah, not much weirder than chasing a cheese down a hill!! Glad my prompt all that time ago inspired you! :D

[dimity-blue.livejournal.com]

It did! As soon as I thought of it, I could see Blair being all enthusiastic while Jim's realised everyone's completely nuts. :oD

[swordznsorcery.livejournal.com]

Ha! It's always nice when your home county is famous for something. :)

I think you definitely beat me. I used to write a lot of "Highlander" fic, so there was general historical era research, which is terribly dull and ordinary next to cheese-rolling!

[dimity-blue.livejournal.com]

I don't know - caber-tossing is pretty weird in itself. I wonder how long that's been going on and why they originally started. It makes me think that people have always been completely bonkers and needed something to channel it into. :oD

[stargatesg1971.livejournal.com]

LOL....