So, today we went to the park after we’d been swimming, badmintoning and cycling and James and Gruff decided that they were going to play rugby. Great idea, until they decided to play it in the bit with loads of trees. They kicked the ball. It got stuck in the tree. Now they ask the question, how do we get it down?
First they tried hitting sticks at it. This failed. Then they tried throwing Gruffs bag into the air to knock it down. This got stuck in the tree as well, lower down in the branches. Then they threw James bag to try and knock this down. It succeeded in knocking Gruffs bag down but James was now stuck (you can see where this is going. Check out the myspace video when Will’s put it up). So, Gruff threw his bag up to knock down James and this time they both got stuck up in the tree. James now throws his wallet up into the tree to knock down the bags. (He really is that stupid). This did not get stuck in the tree but flew over the tree into the big pile of bushes just behind it. Now we go and look in the bushes for the wallet which we find in only about 10 minutes or so and James proceeds to throw at the tree again, getting it stuck. Luckily, this was knocked down fairly easily by the stick and so now for the task of getting the bags down. This was easier said than done, and to save you the boredom of hearing all the details, loosely involved James and Gruff rugby-lifting Pippa so that she could knock them down with a borrowed walking stick/borrowed umbrella/longest stick we could find. This eventually succeded in getting the bags down, and just left the task of the ball. This was managed by knocking it down with sticks and vodka bottles, until they smashed. After a while thesticks worked though, so alls well that ends well I guess. Until James said there was another ball stuck up another tree…
Here is some footage taken of getting the bags down the tree, let’s hope that it works. I would like to thank Will for his amazing camerawork. Unfortunately the embedding didn’t work, so I’m going to have to give you the link and hope that that works, so you can see the delights of our rugby-ball-getting-down0from-treeness
Hi
Your days are rich in adventures, it’s an interesting blog wich is out of the ordinary, your blog is very sympatic!!!
Good adventures!
(sorry for the mistakes, I’m not English)
Comment by Pauline — August 24, 2008 @ 8:41 pm
Bonne Continuation !!!
J’attends de tes nouvelles aventures avec impatience!
Comment by Pauline — August 24, 2008 @ 9:10 pm
Heh, this sounds like quite an amusing day.
“…we go and look in the bushes for the wallet which we find in only about 10 minutes or so and James proceeds to throw at the tree again, getting it stuck…” – my favourite bit, haha.
Comment by CRG — August 25, 2008 @ 9:52 am