the British are masters at devising new ways to amuse the family.
Take this weekend, for example. People queued up for the chance to eat as many Smarties as possible in three minutes using chopsticks. Meanwhile a man broke his own record for attaching clothes pegs to his face. And that was in just one York store.
With this sort of entertainment on offer, the winter will fly by.
Updated: 10:07 Monday, September 30, 2002
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