The successful surfer will abandon bale (bale out) when roll becomes too dangerous, leaping off bale to one side or other. Do not in any circumstances abandon bale in direction of roll unless you want a large bale of hay to run over you (wipe-out). Do not jump onto your 'bale spring'.

Racing rolls: In fields where there are two or more adjacent bales, surfers race each other. This may involve using contours of land to set up converging rolls (knock-out), or a straight race. The surfers will bale out at an agreed spot to avoid hedge injuries.

Night rolling: Make sure to recce field in daylight for obvious dangers like barbed wire or bulls, rams or llamas and if night surfing, make sure you have right field.

Farmers: If you can gain co-operation of a farmer to set up a surf meet this is an advantage. Farmers may well shoot you if they find you engaging in this sport illegally, which besides being dangerous to you is destructive to their property. But at least it doesn't involve ripping foxes to shreds with dogs.

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With As Saints Come Marching On one of them peeled out for a little canter round field. Yes it was getting hot and temperature was rising. These wonderful bovines were so appreciative of music and gave me a bigger audience and better reception than I received in village.

When I played a Blues Train Coming piece a couple of them started mooing, providing startling animal lyrics in accompaniment. I played some music from a 'Simply Red' song and they rushed forwards aggressively, pawing ground.

Farm animals really enjoy music and even if you play simplest instrument you will find an appreciative and uncritical audience with sheep, cows, bullocks or horses. Just remember to position yourself carefully out of reach or you may get mobbed.

Flushed with success I performed set again by pond on way home and attracted a crowd of what must have been 100,000 gnats who swirled in time, particularly liking D#, so much so that they flew into harmonica, blocking notes.

No responsibility for any injuries incurred by anyone undertaking this activity are accepted by this author.