The Ottery St Mary tar barrelling is well worth watching. I'll never forget the sight of a bunch of people generally dressed in leather, beards and hair nearly

The Ottery St Mary tar barrelling is well worth watching. I'll never forget the sight of a bunch of people generally dressed in leather, beards and hair nearly ablaze but generally charred rolling the barrel. Sometimes you'd get a complete nutter fuelled on beer or cider and sheer adrenaline pick the thing up, put in on their shoulders and run down the street until they had quite severe burns or ran out of steam and thrown it on. The neighbours are a bit odd (er than me) around here ...