100 Days of Happiness - Day 72 - Boxing Day Fun

[dizzojay]

Mr D and I have just got back from a morning out at one of our longest-running and much-loved local events.

Very close to the village of Lightwater, where I live is another village called Windlesham, and they have an annual event, every Boxing Day morning; the Windlesham Pram Race.  It started life 50 years ago as a bit of drunken revelry and has, over the years, morphed into the biggest officially organised annual charity fundraising event in either of our villages.

I've been very bad at supporting the pram race over the last couple of years, so this year Mr D and I were determined to get ourselves over to Windlesham to watch the shenanigans and cheer on the participants again.

The basic premise of the pram race is a number of teams in fancy dress pushing a themed pram (or similar unpowered vehicle) over a course of approximately two miles around the village.  Of course, being a British event, it also involves alcohol - lots pf alcohol, and there are five pub stops along the two mile course.

Yes, as you can imagine, it's not a very serious event!!!

So, here are a few pictures from this morning's race:





The Sun Inn in the Centre of Windlesham, and the second stopping off point of the race



Mr D waiting in the gathering crowds for the action to begin



Probably most of Windlesham's population turned out this morning!



The first 'pram' to come by - powered by five of the ugliest babies you'll ever see!



When you're a grown man dressing as a baby, authenticity is the key!



It's not every day you see a crowd of dancing traffic cones running toward you singing 'Highway to Hell'.



The sad thing is, I can believe this!!!!



I think baby has outgrown his pram!



The Red Arrows come trundling by ...





Tank pram, affectionately named 'Tanky McTankface'



Look at these beautiful, elegant Victorian bathing belles!



A Heathrow third runway pram!



Glamorous baywatch babes, Windlesham style.
I can't help imagining this as Dean Winchester expanding on his familiarity with Rhonda Hurley!



A touch of the orient.



The Vikings just stopped by to have a beer.



A gathering of little green army men.



This jockey seems to have misunderstood the usual horse/jockey relationship ... and it's only the second pub!



There will be a lot of aching legs and aching heads in Windlesham tonight, but kudos to everyone who took part!
Thanks to their efforts, schools, libraries and sporting facilities in Lightwater and Windlesham will receive some funds, plus there is a plan to buy a defibrillator for public use in Windlesham village centre.  All good stuff!

Comments

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

The various populations should be commended on their inventiveness - but I can't help thinking yo and Mr Dizz should do a SPN-themed pram next year... *wink*

[fireheart13.livejournal.com]

Oh I love this idea!!! The pram could be te impala!

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

But of course!

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you could join our team :D

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

That did occur to me - a hunter team effort maybe...though drunken revels aren't really my thing. LOL

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

Oh, but the pubs sell Coke too :D

[fireheart13.livejournal.com]

OMG!!!! That was fantastic ROTFL! I was not prepared for the lengths the pram teams went to in their themes and fancy dress!! Really funny!! I can only imagine how the pub stops amped this up hahaaa!!!!!

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

Oh they go to great lengths and self-depreciating ridiculousness is the order of the day :D

[julchen11.livejournal.com]

Fantastic! Thank you for taking us with you, sweetie. ♥♥♥ and Mr D is such a cutie !!!

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

It was a very fun morning, glad you enjoyed it :)

[be-my-precious.livejournal.com]

Looks like so much fun!

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

It was a great morning!

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

Fan-bloody-tastic :DDD Ropley does a Pram Race every year as well, although I haven't gone for ages and it's more Easter than Christmas but this looks FABULOUS! We should do a Hunter one :D Although I am in fact working next Boxing Day.

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

It would be such a hoot to take part. I'd love to do it one day :)

[big-heart-june.livejournal.com]

Oh gosh i laughed through this entire post! :D how utterly awesome lol. Thanks for sharing ♥ glad you had such a wonderful Christmas ♥

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

It was lots of very silly, very British fun!

[metallidean-grl.livejournal.com]

What fun. There are some very creative people out there. Some of those costumes were crazy, the babies one of them. Looks like a fun time was had by all.

[sillie]

Hahaha, that's awesome. XD

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

It was great fun :)

[jj1564.livejournal.com]

Those babies are the stuff of nightmares! This looks such great fun, the costumes are fantastic - I love the traffic cones! - and it's great to see so many locals supporting it. We have a Pram Race in nearby Oxted each year in June, very similar to this, the last one I went to featured this fetching sight...

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

I so need a fic, or some fan art of Jensen wearing one of these!

[jj1564.livejournal.com]

Hee hee, I'm sure someone could come up with something....!