scottie3158
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Now I have finished laughing I can comment. Loving this mate all looks perfect.
Have you noticed those b****y kids get everywhere with their senseless vandalism? Why on Earth would they want to throw tree branches in the stream?
Onion gravy????
My dear chap, don't blame the kids!
In 1940 the mill owners wife gave her children Winnie the Pooh to read as a distraction from the war. In it they found the reference to 'Pooh Sticks'
They just had to have a go in the stream, so they went upstream and each threw in a small stick. Then they would run down to the mill race to see who's stick went over the weir edge first. Oh, what fun they had.
Then one day their father came home after a few hours in the local Tabac.
"What are you two doing?"
"Playing pooh sticks." little Andre replied.
When he eventually stood up from his fathers beating for using foul language, a crying Andre explained about the book.
"I'll show you a pooh stick!"
The children heard a loud crack and opposite the sluice gate they could see their father wrestling with the bough of a tree. He hurled it into the stream. Just as they reached him they did the same with their 'sticks'. Then they all followed their sticks down stream to the weir.
Fathers tree reached the weir first but wedged itself on the lip of the stonework. Angela's stick popped over first followed by Andres.
"I win!" shouted Angela
She just missed her father's well aimed hobnail boot!
Father then slid down the embankment and tried to walk along the weir lip. Loosing his balance he grabbed for the bough and still holding on to it, he plunged into the water below.
"Having fun dear?" Asked his wife, as she and the children all stood giggling at their father floundering about trying to untangle himself from his pooh stick whilst fending off a vicious attack from the Grebe.
So that's how the lump of tree came to be where it is. As you can see the bough was still there four years later in June 1944....
Oh, and some red wine. Some of which actually went in the gravy!.....
Please respect my rank - And age!Was that before or after you started dribbling?
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