What’s all this klop about?

Reserve Ramblings

Third edition, November 2010

News and views from those who use, our natural parkland, which
has long been Coldstream’s best kept secret

End of year morning tea.
Saturday 4th December - from 10 am
This year, we hope to have a bit more
entertainment with a few novelty games,
including Bocce and KLOP – Don’t know what
klop is? Come along and find out! You can also
read a bit about it herein. Prizes donated by –
Australian Harvest Fine Foods,
Kennedy & Wilson Chocolates, Coldstream Timber & Hardware and
Wagner’s Hatchery – A family run
enterprise supplying poultry to the
community.since 1965.
It has also been decided to make this a “no dog”
event, but please bring along your favourite
poochy pictures for our first –Dog Photo competition




What’s all this klop about?

 This game could probably be described as something like
“skittles”, with billets that start off in a cluster, and one
throws another wooden billet, called the “chuck” to knock
them over.
According to the klop website, all this log-tossing fun
started deep in the forests of Finland.
Details are a little sketchy, but it is thought that noise was
an important feature of Klop’s early days. Woodsmen from
Carelia, near the Finnish-Russian border, would carve the
blocks from the birch forests and fling them around
erratically, breaking the enduring silence.
Apart from being tremendous fun, legend has it that the
sharp sound the wooden blocks made as they hit each
other, klop, caused enough ruckus to keep the hungry bears
at bay. So out of much fun and wood flinging the game we
now know as Klop was invented.
The secret of Klop is that anyone can play it. That’s one
reason why it spread so quickly throughout Finland and
still lives on. Klop is easy to play, be good at, and enjoy
for all kinds of men, women and children. During the
game you can easily sink your teeth into some prime
Finnish reindeer rib and swig your favourite drink. Klop is
also much easier to play with friends without the blushes
of many other Finnish past-times – like wife-carrying
sprints, nude saunas or air guitar battles – just to name a
few. All you need is a knack for some block rocking feats
– an ability to fling the chuck and send the pegs flying. -
Let’s Klop


For more information contact –
Morris Maxwell, President, FOMLRI.
Phone AH 9739 1809 - Mobile 04 1838 9900
Email mlreserve@virginbroadband.com.au

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