General Chat

There's a guest on a radio 4 programme, talking about the 'skill' of climbing trees! :-S

He's even written a book on how to do it.

If something we did as a matter of course has now become a 'skill', perhaps we should all write books on 'skills' we had/have that a lot of 'youff' know nothing about.

Maggies books: Outside lavvies wot I have used.
and
My struggles with a corded phone.

Maggie - you'll be tapping in to the same market as our youngest's book -
"Loos wot I have visited" ;-)

The younger generation do tend to want to read 'how to' books - they haven't been allowed the freedom of getting dirty or doing 'dangerous' things.

Geez...

What about swings I have swung on............ roundabouts I have thrown up on.... the list is endless.

I think that guy fell out of his tree too many times.

conkers I have collected :-D :-D :-D :-D

Skipping I have done.
How I learnt to cross the road on my own!

Why did the chicken cross the road on its own? :-S

Because his friends were busy 'learning' how to climb trees?

Boom, boom! :-D :-D

:-D :-D :-D

Is that the same chap who was on tele the other day walking barefoot along branches?

I've got no idea. I wouldn't have watched a man walking along branches - but probably!!

There was a programme a few years ago, about a student living alone in a remote cottage in Wales, that had no electricity, and only an open fire for heat.
He really 'roughed' it - he went without a car, and it wasn't on a bus route. :-S

I did that. I didn't make a bloody TV programme about it :-|

The poor dear tried to create a veg garden - oh! such hardship. He got some hens - for eggs, I didn't see him kill & eat any of the chickens.

Many of our - and probably his- ancestors lived like this, and successfully brought up children.

So who on here can use a diabalo? Who can do tricks with a yo-yo? Who can use a hula-hoop?

They have all been extremely popular pastimes that have faded into oblivion.If somebody doesn't record the details of what really are skills they will be lost forever.

An African friend was delighted to see a fireplace taken apart to show him how it worked because he had read about fireplaces in Dickens but had no experience of them and could not really picture how they worked.

My book will be entitled "Places in which I have got a finger stuck".

Illustrated?

:-D :-D :-D

Bikes I have sailed over the handlebars on. :-D

Followed by the sequel,

Dentists I have visited for removal of bits of teeth.

:-D (me now) :-D

Maybe my Mum should of read that book.

My Mum's boss saw me climbing a tree and told her 'That I shouldn't be allowed because if I fell out of the tree I would get hurt.'

MY MUM ANSWER: well if she does, that is the only way she will learn that if she climbs trees and falls out it hurts,

:-D :-D Rocky!
Reminds me of the warning shouted by almost every parent:
'Don't come running to me if you break your leg/neck'!!

Hmmm...... since I don't remember falling out of the tree I never found out. I fell off my bike a number of times and that hurt so maybe it does. :-|

Maybe I should climb the nearest tree and find out. :-D

Not without the lady in question's permission, Sharron!