MJ's little flock

[Shadrach]

That helps to explain your anti pool bias over on my thread.

Caught me.

 

[Shadrach]

Did you have many swimming lessons when you were a kid? We had swimming every summer. I think it was part of the curriculum because i was in a public school (eg state funded) in a very poor neighbourhood. It was very much a "no frills" primary school.

We didn't at any of the schools I went to.

 

[Scrambles83]

That first picture is a lovely shot.

Thank you.
The wee ones are coming out of their shells more and more. They will get shirty once I’m back at work and they can’t free range most of the day
One more shot, we were in the spa so it’s far away but it was cute to see them all resting together under the almond tree

 

[RoyalChick]

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I'm comfortable playing all sports but I'm no good at relating to sports people. I don't really understand competition. I've read lots about it, but I'm yet to find a good answer to this question: why set so many people up to be losers? It seems like a violation of dignity.

However if I play a sport with people who are humble and generous in their wins that's different because then I can respect what we're doing. Hard to find such people though. It takes a lot of self assurance to be humble in a win and dignified in a loss.

some reason this jogged a long buried memory of croquet. It is one of the few games where the objective of making someone else lose is higher than the purpose of winning.

Thank you.
The wee ones are coming out of their shells more and more. They will get shirty once I’m back at work and they can’t free range most of the day
One more shot, we were in the spa so it’s far away but it was cute to see them all resting together under the almond tree

That is a great picture!

 

[RoyalChick]

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some reason this jogged a long buried memory of croquet. It is one of the few games where the objective of making someone else lose is higher than the purpose of winning.

That is a great picture!

Sorry. So weird. No idea why those posts combined.

 

[MaryJanet]

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some reason this jogged a long buried memory of croquet. It is one of the few games where the objective of making someone else lose is higher than the purpose of winning.

That is a great picture!

Yeh, see I can't get on board with making losers. Some of which is codified into rules of play and some of which is behavioural.

Also, you've shed light on a detail I hadn't been able to appreciate in Howards End: Mr Wilcox and Charles Wilcox practising their croquet in chapter 1. Now I realise the object of croquet is the suppression of others, of course E.M. Forster chose it for them.

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

I never thought of it that way. Is your lack of coordination from birth or did something happen? My brothers oldest child has a lack of coordination from birth. Come to think of it, I've never seen him ride a bike.

I was labeled "clumsy" or "accident prone" as a child so I guess I just believed it .
Even now I get pleasantly surprised and pleased with myself if I catch something with just one hand.

Tax

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

I have to confess I am getting a bit of a chicken-crush thing for Alice. She has quite a look about her (now she has taken to wearing feathers again)!

I think she is just spectacular. I just love her up-do.

Thank you both. I am very partial to her myself.

She will soon be sporting a pink stripe from the top of her head to her tail as I can see signs of feather picking along her back.

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

I beg to differ.
I can sink to the bottom of a pool faster than gravity can pull me.
Swimming to me is something I have to endure once in while mainly because it's a cheap bath.
I can sort of swim; enough to save my life if I'm quick, but all that relax in the water nonsense I hear is for people who aren't lead bricks I've assumed.

My hubby is the same; he can swim but he doesn’t float, so swimming isn’t a relaxing pastime for him.

I am very buoyant. I can lie on the surface of the water hardly moving and rise and fall as I breathe in and out. Whereas I have a friend that sinks to the bottom like you do Shad. He can walk along the bottom to get out!

 

[Scrambles83]

I lay down under the trampoline next to Bok who was resting there out of the heat (I had just read in bob’s thread about Patsy so went to give my old girl some one on one love) and I was talking to her then I hear this 'peep peep peep' behind me. Next thing I know Belle has jumped up on my back to check me out and ended up settled on my shoulder.
I got an inquisitive peck on the ear too, little bugger
Snow decided to lay down next to me also!
Flock was all together, including me, and it was amazing