It is not every day that I'm involved with a World Record attempt in egg throwing and today was no exception. I stood well back on the side-lines. At 3pm or thereabouts I left this message on the 'don't forget board' hoping that Julie would see it. She didn't, not until 4.30pm anyway, when she changed the ET of depart to 5pm. 16.50 to be precise and by 18.05 we were by the sea at Lyme Regis enjoying the Regatta atmosphere. Sitting on the sea wall sucking on an ice cream (tea for the lady) the announcement stage left was that a World Record attempt would be made in egg throwing and any volunteers would be welcome. Within 5 minutes a heavy mob had congregated around the megaphone which then split into 2 groups. A small adults group, small as in number. And a children's group which seemed huge (bottom image). To the adults group I strolled.
Now to be brutally honest I have no idea what was going on. A parallel line of people stood about 30 feet apart and threw eggs at each other in turn. If the egg smashed that pair retired. If it remained intact they threw again. This continued for about 20 minutes until eventually after much oohing and ahhing by the assembled crowd, the only pair remaining with an intact egg was the chap in blue throwing the egg (arrow to denote trajectory) at the chap in orange. They continued to throw until one high lifter failed to connect softly with the chap in orange hands and that was it. Everyone left. The children's event continued for another 10 minutes before that too abruptly ended. Was the World Record achieved? Well if it was, it wasn't announced to the Lyme Regis crowd.
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