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

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  2. Lovely pictures! And you are right. Poohsticks rocks!

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    1. Thanks, Jenny. Actually, Poohsticks is oddly addictive!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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  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. 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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