#poohsticks

[dewoozles]

Pooh Sticks

High quality poster based on a copy of Ernest Shepard's illustration for the book "The House at Pooh Corner" by Alfred Milne.

[skelligiri]

This is my contribution to Fandom Trumps Hate 2022, as requested by the winner of the auction, Dandelion! This is a scene from her fic A Game of Skill (or: Aziraphale and Crowley Play Poohsticks), which is honestly adorable. I would strongly recommend checking out her fanfics on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/users/AnonymousDandelion/pseuds/AnonymousDandelion

[blacklinguist]

reblog + tag your mbti type and your major / area of study ... im tryna see something

infp + linguistics (sociolinguistics)

[ellies-sketchbook]

copy of one of E H Shepard’s lovely Winnie the Pooh illustrations

watercolour and ink, A2, october 2020

[thewordwideweb]

All about the pooh...sticks

I assure you it’s strictly a coincidence that my last Word of the Day post and this one are both about poo. Well, to be absolutely accurate, this one’s not about poo, exactly, but Pooh. As in “Winnie the.” 

The Word of the Day is “Poohsticks.” And it’s not so much a Word of the Day as a Game of the Day. I’m also happy to report there’s no actual poo involved.

The game of “Poohsticks” was first mentioned in a story titled “The House at Pooh Corner,” by Pooh author A.A. Milne. (I mean, of course, that Milne was the author of the Winnie the Pooh stories, not that he was poo as a writer). The game also makes an appearance in the Disney short animated feature “Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore.”

Milne played the game in real life with his son, Christopher Robin Milne and, like the chicken and the egg, no one is quite sure which came first – the game in the book or the game in real life. The actual bridge father and son stood on in East Sussex, England, was originally called the Posingford Bridge, but in the late 70’s the bridge had to be rebuilt, and when it reopened it was officially re-named “Poohsticks Bridge.” 

To play Poohsticks, all you need is at least one friend, some sticks, a river, stream or other body of moving water, and a bridge. Players stand on the upstream side of the bridge and simultaneously drop their sticks into the water below. Then they hustle to the downstream side of the bridge and look over to see whose stick appears first. Hey, I said it was a game. I never said it was a good game! 

Since 1984, Poohsticks aficionados have staged the annual World Poohsticks Championships, originally on the River Thames and now on the River Windrush. It attracts competitors – both individuals and teams of four – from around the world. There are strict rules: sticks must be made of organic material (i.e., wood); sticks must be dropped, not thrown; and sticks cannot be self-propelled! In a 2012 magazine poll, readers voted the Poohsticks World Championships “Britain’s Favourite Quirky Event.” 

By the way, if you decide to visit the original Poohsticks Bridge in East Sussex, you are advised to bring your own sticks. Apparently, tourists visiting the bridge would break branches off nearby trees in Ashdown Forest so they could play, and they were causing a lot of damage. And that’s a really poo thing to do to a defenseless forest.  

[scrixels]

playing Poohsticks on a sunny day

[jenrstories]

When Christopher Robin says he’s going to do nothing, sometimes it means he’s going to spend his afternoon in the enchanted Hundred Acre Wood playing a game of “Poohsticks” with his good friend Winnie the Pooh. 💛❤️ If you’re a fan of the books or the Disney films and you haven’t seen Christopher Robin, then what are you doing with your life?

[ripplefactor]

'For a long time they looked at the river beneath them, saying nothing, and the river said nothing too, for it felt very quiet and peaceful on this summer afternoon.'

A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner, 1926 ..

'By the late 1970′s the original wooden bridge, known as Posingford Bridge, at Hartfield Farm, Sussex had fallen into disrepair. It was carefully restored and reopened by Christopher Milne in May 1979. At the ceremony it was claimed that the bridge was "as important a bridge as any in the world". As visitor numbers increased the bridge began to suffer and in 1999 a complete reconstruction was necessary. Since 1984 the annual World Poohsticks Championships have been held at Day's Lock on the River Thames.'

The 41st Anniversary—May 27, 2024.

“Rivers know this: There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” — Winnie the Pooh’