My birthday and other nonence

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

but i have been known to don a few disguises!

 at the end of the day even if I'm down, I'll get up again and fight for justice.

and if that's not Robin Hood.... 

Then i don't know what is.

So! thanks for the present 9th Crayon! I love it! :D XxX

Snakes deer and other odditys! (yes i mean ME!) :P

So I was quite brave today, for me at any rate!
We were at one of Colin’s lovely trips this time to Blakemere.

 This trip included a visit to an Avery, to see loads of really gorgeous Falcons Eagles and owls of all shapes and sizes.

On top of this I got to stroke a corn snake with another member of our group.

I know I know! Corn snakes are relatively harmless and its not like I was stroking a Hooded Cobra or a Hydrophis Belcheri

But I was actually a little nervous. Now I have many friends with lizards  dragons and gecko’s (hi 9^th Crayon) which I have had the privilege of holding stroking, or generally looking at and going ‘ermm no you’re okay it can stay with… oh… its not so bad actually!’
But Snakes are something I haven’t had the opportunity to handle yet.

 I already knew they weren’t slimy or sticky or anything like that, and I know a few little facts and things (or I think I do so I'm not typing them!!!)
But it surprised me how light yet how heavy it was, and how warm!

The other Lady I was with, (there were only three of us went to see the Avery out of a group of 16! Terrible!!!) Was also thrilled to touch a snake.

One of the other trips I’ve been on this year with Colin was a trip to Boddlwythan castle  and I took my old camera and tried my hand at a little bit of photography. There not brilliant but I like them!




and from the Ocassional Trish! That’s all! XxX