Tilting the Bucket
Tilting the Bucket is one of the unusual sports that used to be played in the British Isles. Life magazine offers this description of it:
The game requires some specialized equipment (the revolving overhead bucket), but if you don't have this, there's is a board game version you can play.
'Tilting the bucket' is a burlesque of medieval jousting. Instead of a lance ye knight carries a pole. His steed is a wheelbarrow. To win the tilt the young clansman must throw his pole through a small hole in an overhead target. The target is attached to a bucket of water. If he misses, as he almost always does, the barrow-pusher must run at top speed to avoid a drenching.
The game requires some specialized equipment (the revolving overhead bucket), but if you don't have this, there's is a board game version you can play.
Comments
I prefer tilting at windmills! :lol:
Posted by Tyrusguy on 11/17/12 at 10:18 AM
We must have gotten to the highlands too late to have seen this one at the games.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 11/17/12 at 10:53 AM
Nice interesting post but not on my "bucket list" 😝
Posted by BrokeDad in Midwest US on 11/17/12 at 11:01 AM
Sounds like a game kids would love.
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 11/17/12 at 11:38 AM
4th of July picnic type stuff 4sure!
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 11/17/12 at 11:39 AM
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