Tag: Play

Play

Fox cub, River Frome, Bristol, June 2021
Fox cub, River Frome, Bristol, June 2021

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Enchanting moment

fox cubs frolic on the bank

innocent playtime

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by Scooj

  • Yesterday I was lucky enough to watch three, at least, fox cubs playing on the far bank of the urban River Frome. I was captivated by them, having first heard them rustling in the undergrowth. I watched on for about ten minutes, wishing that I could share the moment with other passer’s by, but there were none. I had to leave because the dog, bless him, was getting restless. He couldn’t see the fox cubs because the river is bounded by a 4ft high wall. My photographs were a bit fuzzy because I was on full zoom, this is one of the better ones.

Cheese-cutter

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Nestled side by side

cocooned in spikey armour

prepared for battle

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by Scooj

  • Although no longer permitted in the schoolyard, the game of conkers was one of those things that we simply grew up with. The excitement of collecting shiny new conkers and breaking them free from their shells was one of autumn’s pure joys. A cheese-cutter was a flattened conker that had shared its outer shell with another and were thought to bestow an advantage by cracking open your opponent’s conker using the sharp flat edge. such happy days. I still find new conkers irresistible and still come home with pocketfuls of them.

Haiku 15 (reposted)

 

Counting 1…2…3…

beautiful green Spring meadows,

remember these things?

 

by Scooj

 

  • One of my Early Haiku poems from May 2015 – I was thinking about looking forward to spring, but was uninspired (it must be the rain), so I dug this one out from the archive. Only those of you who became WordPress friends back in the early days will remember this one, so I felt it was worth sharing again.

Cornish snow

 

In seventy-nine

we two played with a lightness

enjoying the snow.

Haiku 15

 

Counting 1…2…3…

beautiful green Spring meadows,

remember these things?

 

by Scooj