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I am here in the Lake District to learn a skill which has long eluded me - and yet seems to come naturally to many of my friends and children: skimming stones.
Each year hundreds of thousands of people from all over the country take part in the strangest of events, from eating stinging nettles, to snorkeling in a bog and to parading as Vikings.