The Occasional Trish: December 2011

Okay! True Story Time!

How to get kids interested in archery.

Step 1. Have an event where archery can be included say the apple fest at Erddig

Step two (enter hero stage left)
have your hero find the deserted stand with bored looking merchant and pay for a go.

'Have you done this before love?'
'once or twice'
Picks up bow, glances round at two children watching
'okay we have six targets...'
*has already raised bow and started.*
Bulls eye! Bulls eye! Bulls eye! Bulls eye! Bulls eye! *kids eagerly call and gather there mates round watching the last shot after a long dramatic pause*
*Pulls back bow* *slight gasp from the children!*
Bulls eye!
The group your with clap and as you walk away the store merchant asks your. Name.
'Robin of Loxley' you reply with a wink.
'once or twice huh!'
Ten minutes later the place is packed with kids and dads trying to out best each other. Job done.
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i love robin hood! so much so that today when i opened my presents i found a brilliant robin hood book and a note from 9th Crayon,

" 'i saw this and thought of you' doesn't quite hit the mark enough to describe the compulsion that came over me when i saw this book. It would be closer if i said i saw this book and for a second i thought it was actually you! "

So as i can see doubt on your faces let me prove it to you (if the above true story hasn't already)

So this was the picture on the front of the book... and beneath it me...

So do i like archery? yeah!!! can i lead people to victory?

welllll..... maybe not...

my ways of leading may not always please people...

and sure I'll go the wrong way and have to think over my mistakes.

I might even end up on my arse a couple of times....

But with a little bit of luck, and my friends I'll always come through in the end.

even if it does take practise...

It was a few years when my friends and I decided to write a robin hood play, and naturally I threw myself right into the part of Robin, unfortunately it was a comedy which meant a lot of getting it wrong but it was fun most of the pictures above are from our script read through and action walk through. It was never made because slowly everyone disappeared off to university and various other parts of the country. we could class it as the casts crusades, but as all my friends know I'm still Exactly where I started.

I may not be maid Marian