This was organuised in about 1981 or so to raise funds for the Easton Harriers.
Grand Muck Heap Competition
Feel free to copy this idea, but give any money to a suitable charity. My preference would be one supportring research into pancreatic cancer.
November 19, 2010 - Posted by AnonW | World | Horses, Humour
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What this blog will eventually be about I do not know.
But it will be about how I’m coping with the loss of my wife and son to cancer in recent years and how I manage with being a coeliac and recovering from a stroke. It will be about travel, sport, engineering, food, art, computers, large projects and London, that are some of the passions that fill my life.
And hopefully, it will get rid of the lonely times, from which I still suffer.
Why Anonymous? That’s how you feel at times.
The Anonymous Widower
It sounds fun, did many people take part? Forgive my townie ignorance, what is the difference between a muck heap and a compost heap?
I collect old medical books and medical remedies, and I have one which says that if a small child appears “dead by being drownded” you should immediately put him to his neck in a dung heap, as this rarely fails to revive him. It doesnt say in the book, but it is the warmth rather than the smell which does the trick.
Comment by liz | November 19, 2010 |
I think we raised about a couple of hundred pounds or so. One prize was a genuine bottle of undrinkable Argentiasn red wine!
Comment by AnonW | November 19, 2010 |
That is a good sum of money, especially back in 1980s. Why was the wine undrinkable?
Comment by liz | November 19, 2010 |
Argentinian wines were in those days!
Comment by AnonW | November 19, 2010 |
Neil was out in Argentina around that time, I dont recall him bringing any wine back. I do recall Russian vodka, and Japanese whisky – not from Argentina of course.
Comment by liz | November 19, 2010 |
I rest my case!
Comment by AnonW | November 19, 2010 |
We are neither of us big wine drinkers, and never really have been. Neil drinks beer, and occasionally rum, I drank whisky, bacardi, grappe, and the odd liquer. I would occasionally have half a lager or half a cider. A local hotel owned and run by an Italian family always had a really good selection of different grappe. But the pain meds dont mix with alcohol, so I now drink soda with a splash of orange. Exciting!
Comment by liz | November 19, 2010 |