Tuesday, 11 September 2012

The enduring joy of Poohsticks


On Saturday, I cheered myself up by joining my son and his family for a picnic. We spent a happy hour or so playing Poohsticks on this bridge. Passers-by, who had to climb over (some of) us were not amused, but we had a great time.

I lost.
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  1. Tim11 September 2012 at 23:17

    What sort of creatures were those unamused passers-by? Certainly not human. I'd have joined in.

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  2. Jenny Woolf11 September 2012 at 23:40

    Lovely pictures! And you are right. Poohsticks rocks!

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    1. Frances Garrood12 September 2012 at 16:18

      Thanks, Jenny. Actually, Poohsticks is oddly addictive!

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  3. Colette McCormick11 September 2012 at 23:51

    I despair of some people - the passersby that is not you and your family. Defeat can be hard to take but remember that its the taking part that matters.

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    1. Frances Garrood12 September 2012 at 16:19

      Oh, I took part okay, Colette. You may be sure of that!

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  4. Susan Flett Swiderski12 September 2012 at 04:10

    Gee, now I feel underprivileged. Not only have I never played this game, I never heard of it before. (But win or lose, it looks like fun!)

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    1. Frances Garrood12 September 2012 at 16:21

      It's a verybEnglish thing, Susan, and it helps if you've read the book!

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  5. Joanna12 September 2012 at 08:32

    Lovely innocent fun and shame on the passers-by for not joining in with it.

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    1. Frances Garrood12 September 2012 at 16:22

      I suppose we were making rather a lot of (cheerful) noise...

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  6. Pat Posner12 September 2012 at 09:35

    Well, "poo" to those passers by. They don't know what fun they missed.

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  7. Maggie May12 September 2012 at 14:47

    See a bridge - drop something (preferably a stick) over one side, and see whose gets to the other side first. Simples! Hope I'm right in thinking that's what Poohsticks is?

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    1. Frances Garrood12 September 2012 at 16:24

      Exactly right, Maggie. But we used flowers and leaves as well.

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  8. Teresa Ashby12 September 2012 at 15:37

    Bah to the miserable old passers-by! Who on earth could object to a family having fun in such a thoroughly nice way? The pictures are lovely x

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  9. Frances Garrood12 September 2012 at 16:24

    Thank you, Teresa. What a sensible woman you are!

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  10. Rosemary Gemmell13 September 2012 at 09:44

    What a great picture of children having such innocent fun - makes the heart glad. How dare people complain!

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    1. Frances Garrood13 September 2012 at 10:10

      They didn't exactly complain, Rosemary, but they just gave us Looks!

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  11. Patsy13 September 2012 at 14:11

    You might not have won, Frances but you didn't lose out in the way those passers-by did.

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  12. Frances Garrood13 September 2012 at 16:28

    Too right, Patsy!

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  13. Graham Edwards27 September 2012 at 18:37

    I, too, would have been down there with you joining in. If you haven't played Poohsticks then you haven't lived.

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