I've started so I'll finish...

So I thought I would stop complaining about school transport and tell you a bit about our Village Quiz.

It all began a couple of years back when someone decided to start a pub quiz each week to raise money for a local sports team. It isn't a wildly sophisticated affair - most of us gave up quaffing champagne and snorting Class A drugs a while ago and have chosen to settle for simpler pursuits. But even so, we have The Quiz.

As simpler pursuits go, it might not quite count. Sometimes the rounds are seriously demanding. We are privileged to be able to hold our quiz in the Village Hall these days, and so we get a regular audience of local teams rather than random, confused tourists from the camp site. This means the questions can be set to reciprocate the local paradigm: for example, we may have rounds about tractors, bird watching and local landmarks.

The Quiz is usually set by Himself and me. Sometimes someone else takes pity on the suffering of the masses, and provides a decent quiz instead. But usually it remains our pleasure to scour a vast range of resources and develop a unique quizzing experience (hurrah for Wikipedia!).

The format has also evolved from a weekly quiz of forty questions to a monthly one of eighty, with two picture/handout rounds. The prize is a minor attraction - a case of beer. The raffle is better - a local butcher does a very decent mixed grill. And the Hall raises a few pounds to help with running costs. The Committee provides crisps and peanuts, while participants bring along their own tipple. Needless to say, things get progressively sillier as the evening wears on.

We are now starting to work on the quiz for October: lots of options here for themes, such as Autumn, Halloween, or October itself. Probably all three will find their way in there somehow. By the way - if you going to attend, that last comment may have been a bluff. Any ideas for rounds are welcome though!

If you're passing, drop in and join us. We don't bite (not even if you ask us to).