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Following on from Tom's remark, is there going to be a meeting up of CCEers for a post event picnic?
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Posted 12 years ago #
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I'd be up for this weather permitting. Our problem is our two boys get bored easily and I don't know of any play parks near Holyrood.
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"our two boys get bored easily"
Take them bike spotting...
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bring a ball? there'll be lots of kids about. am sure they'll find ways to occupy themselves
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"I don't know of any play parks near Holyrood."
There's one just beside the cut-through to St Leonard's...
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There are two in The Meadows.
So that's before the ride.
Ride should be sensory overload.
Then food.
Then sleep(?) - or maybe just for PoP organisers...
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Yes we are planning on heading for the park before the ride and then joining the ride as it starts. Then after the ride we have to perhaps feed and entertain them, hopefully at a nearby park. We have to then make it back to Harrison park and perhaps returning straight to Harison park with the group we arrive with may be a better plan for our family, and then a picnic at Harrison Park, perhaps by the boat cafe.
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Sleep?
Well deserved post-pop-pints!
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Harrison park has a decent playpark. I'm sure they won't feel neglected if they get to 2-3 parks in one day! We'll find them some sticks to play with or something if need be.
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I think I'll bring a picnic for myself and maybe some extra cakes to share around just in case and then take things as they come.
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I already have a bike-mounted thermos flask for coffee so I can just take some food to go with it!
The forecast seems to have improved a bit, at least on the version I looked at..
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@SRD, We have small boys not small dogs.... Sticks... I ask you...!!!
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1. Stick
What’s brown and sticky? A Stick.
This versatile toy is a real classic — chances are your great-great-grandparents played with one, and your kids have probably discovered it for themselves as well. It’s a required ingredient for Stickball, of course, but it’s so much more. Stick works really well as a poker, digger and reach-extender. It can also be combined with many other toys (both from this list and otherwise) to perform even more functions.
Stick comes in an almost bewildering variety of sizes and shapes, but you can amass a whole collection without too much of an investment. You may want to avoid the smallest sizes — I’ve found that they break easily and are impossible to repair. Talk about planned obsolescence. But at least the classic wooden version is biodegradable so you don’t have to feel so bad about pitching them into your yard waste or just using them for kindling. Larger, multi-tipped Sticks are particularly useful as snowman arms. (Note: requires Snow, which is not included and may not be available in Florida.)
As with most things these days, there are higher-end models of Sticks if you’re a big spender, from the smoothly-sanded wooden models (which are more uniformly straight than the classic model) to more durable materials such as plastic or even metal. But for most kids the classic model should do fine. My own kids have several Sticks (but are always eager to pick up a couple more when we find them).
One warning: the Stick can also be used as a sword or club, so parents who avoid toy weapons might want to steer clear of the larger models. (On the other hand, many experts agree that creative children will just find something else to substitute for Stick, so this may be somewhat unavoidable.)
Although she is not generally known as a toy expert, Antoinette Portis has written this helpful user manual for those needing some assistance in using their Stick.
Wired: Finally, something that does grow on trees.
Tired: You could put someone’s eye out.
Disclosure: I have received several samples of Sticks from one manufacturer for
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Sticks can be great fun: the classic running them along railings, for starters; they can become pretend swords, etc. Kids find all sorts of games to play with them!
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I have to admit that everytime we return from the park they wee boys insist on bringing their latest stick(s) back with them... if only we had a wee wood burner...
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I very much agree with SRD here and again I probably shouldn't tell this story. When my eldest daughter was about 2 we went on holiday to Alnmouth for a week. At the time she was keen on getting a pet, to which I convinced her that a stick was the perfect pet and tied one to a piece of rope and dragged it around after me. In no time she had one too and we spent most of the week happily dragging our sticks behind us, up and down the beach and all around the village! We have a great photograph of her somewhere with a very serious look on her face, stick in tow.
Stick and rope, two of the top three toys in one go.Posted 12 years ago # -
@EB That is such a great story! Love it.
But honestly, it is an important life skill for kids to learn to improvise toys and entertain themselves. It will serve them well later in life. Of course, my kids also feel that their human rights have been violated if they don't get to at least one play park a day...
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If you have a surplus of sticks, give them a Kelly Kettle, some matches and let them make hot chocolate. Or give them a knife to strip the sticks' bark and sharpen them. Hours of fun. Bring your own plasters.
EB - When we were up in Gairloch at Easter, Ellen dragged a piece of rope around as a pet all week until Mandy left it behind on a walk. I also once tied a bit of string around a rock for her to drag around as pet. That lasted a couple of days.
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