Cheshire

Best British Days Out (The Times, June 2007)

MIDSUMMER MADNESS @ World Worm Charming Championships
For the 28th year, champion charmers will gather at Willaston primary school, near Nantwich, to coax worms out of a 10ft-square bit of ground using "vibrations" alone. Tom-tom drumming, fiddle-playing, garden fork-twanging . . . everything but digging is allowed - and the world record is 511 worms in the allotted 30 minutes (by a chap called Shufflebotham). Everyone is welcome, but if you want one of the 144 competition plots, better get a wiggle on. Charming begins at about 2pm (early birds not welcome); June 30; 01270 610983