40 Humorous British Traditions


Fiction - Humor/Comedy
100 Pages
Reviewed on 05/20/2015
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Reviewed by Anne-Marie Reynolds for Readers' Favorite

40 Humorous British Traditions by Julian Worker is a hilarious look at some of the strange traditions that Great Britain has. There are 40 stories that will have you gasping in disbelief, rolling your eyes, and laughing, perhaps all at the same time. Learn how to choose the next village idiot by dancing around a windmill – 3 sheets to the wind. Find out how to get to your nearest duck quacking contest or how to enter the thimble throwing contest. What has turtle rinsing got to do with the Royal Family? And read on to find out that you’ve been doing it all wrong – gambling should be done with animals, not money. And let’s not forget all the other wild and wonderful traditions that Britain seems to have. It’s up to you to determine if these are real or not.

40 Humorous British Traditions by Julian Worker was a somewhat strange read but, I have to admit, funny. I like the style of writing; it is very engaging and has an air of authority about it that makes you want to believe what you are reading, but I just couldn’t accept that these were real traditions! However, it is an entertaining read and it does present all sorts of visuals that kept popping into my head for days afterward, making me giggle. Good book, well written and very funny. I hope there is more in this vein from Julian Worker because he clearly has a talent for making people laugh.

Dennis Garcia

40 Humorous British Traditions, by author Julian Worker, is an account of fantastic, albeit pseudo traditions, skillfully written into factoids with official sounding dates, names and localities, giving each of the stories an air of credibility and scholastic research.

Julian draws the reader in with Pythonesque persuasion, (a boon if you are a Monty Python fan), and flavors with deadpan delivery such ludicrously hilarious traditions as:
Arrow Catching in the Staffordhire, Moorlands, and Matlock Bath
Hairy Legs Competition in Melton Mowbray
Spoon Balancing from Todmorden
Cirencester Duck Quacking Festival
Feather Balancing from Rye
Those are just 5 of the 40 amusing traditions listed and expounded on in the book.

The inclusion of the names of actual towns, boroughs, and villages, quaint and ancient, add an ambience to the vision of participants of such time-worn traditions gallivanting along picturesque stone-cobbled villages while in pursuit of their localities’ respective tradition.

Written with just the proper dash of believability, this is a book that will graciously transport the reader back to a simpler time, when the pace of life was slower, and opportunities for such tomfoolery were abundant.