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very very english 

so the "Gloucester Cheese Roll"

this is a Very Traditional Chasing a cheese down a steep hill in the bucolic village of Brockworth. Despite the stern warning issued by Chief Superintendent Nigel Avron to 86 year old cheesemaker Diana Smart, former winner Helen Thorpe and others endorse the competition, which usually ends at the nearest pubs, The Victoria or The Cross Hands and

HOW is anyone THAT ENGLISH? All these people could have stepped out of a Dorothy L. Sayers mystery.

very very english 

In FACT this is so completely England's Mountains Green pastoral that I'd put money that competitors arrive by steam train and that there's a gruesome and nigh-unsolvable murder during the event.

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