SQUIRT aka Boxing Day traditions :)

[Oliver_W]

My town has something called the Squirt. A barrel is suspended over the river, and firefighters from here and the main town are on either side, and fire their hoses at it, trying to swing it toward the other side <3

Does your town have any traditions?

[Josy]

What a waste of water that is

[Oliver_W]

What a waste of water that is

Don't be a killjoy:)

[Beso]

I think, if I'm not mistaken, the water is sucked up from the river that the barrel is suspended across.

[Oliver_W]

I think, if I'm not mistaken, the water is sucked up from the river that the barrel is suspended across.

Maybe, I dunno :shrug: doesn't matter too much as it's only once a year :)

[Beso]

Maybe, I dunno :shrug: doesn't matter too much as it's only once a year :)

It wouldn't matter at all as the water just drips back into the river..I saw this thing you are on about one time on tv, bloody wierdos if you ask me.:hehe:

[Oliver_W]

It wouldn't matter at all as the water just drips back into the river..I saw this thing you are on about one time on tv, bloody wierdos if you ask me.:hehe:

Eh, plenty of traditions are weird :joker:

[Beso]

Eh, plenty of traditions are weird :joker:

I know...just realised where I saw this on telly...it was james Acaster on would I lie to you..

Vintage fire engines are used, and volunteer firemen participate in the event.


I like james Acaster, he's a funny young man.

[Oliver_W]

I know...just realised where I saw this on telly...it was james Acaster on would I lie to you..

Vintage fire engines are used, and volunteer firemen participate in the event.


I like james Acaster, he's a funny young man.

Yeah, i live in the village and he's from the town, but really the village is a section of the town ...if that makes sense :joker:

We went to the same school but not at the same time, he graduated when I started.