Am I being a mermaid here in 1955? |
My own children in the mid 1980s whilst visiting their grandparents, used cushions, chairs and a tennis racquet to fashion a car (or motor-boat) that would take them and a family of dolls of on a trip somewhere.
We built a ship upon the stairs
All made of the back-bedroom chairs,
And filled it full of sofa-pillows.
to go sailing on the billows.
Robert Louis Stevenson; A Good Play
By 2010 our twin grandchildrenwere sailing away in a sand boat, with beach spades for oars.
When I am in my ship I see
The other ships go sailing by.
A sailor leans and calls to me
As his ship goes sailing by.
Across the sea he leans to me,
Above the wind I hear him cry:
“Is this the way to Round-the-World?”
He calls as he goes by.
A.A. Milne: Nursery Chairs
Where shall we adventure today that we’re afloat,
Wary of the weather and steering by a star?
Shall it be to Africa, a-steering of the boat,
To Providence, or Babylon, or off to Malabar?
Robert Louis Stevenson: Pirate Story
This week’s Sepia Saturday prompt is ‘Chldren Riding a make-Believe Horse’. They have used some objects (probably with adult help) to fashion a vaguely horse-like shape. I hope they didn’t try to feed their horse as he has a sharp muzzle! The little girl has a whip made of grass, but she seems to be unwittingly tickling her brother’s nose with the end of it.
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At least you have spared the Sepians the image of me as a bearded mermaid!
ReplyDeleteI have a feeling it’s too late; the Sepians will have seen that in an earlier post!
DeleteYou were very cute there in your sandy seat.
ReplyDeleteOh my heavens, I didn't look that closely at the prompt picture till now. The horse's head is a hatchet - an axe - isn't it? Good grief - as Charlie Brown would say! You made a cute little mermaid. :)
ReplyDeleteWonderful Photos Nell ! So true, children are far more creative & joyful than the elders.Long may it be so.
ReplyDeleteHow joyful!
ReplyDeleteChildren having innocent fun - a great match for the prompt and I love the poems you feature.
ReplyDeleteLovely children and photos. Your choice of poems capture the brief moment in life that is childhood wonder. At the time we hardly knew we had it and now can't recall when we lost it.
ReplyDeleteI never tried building a sand boat on the beach...it looks so great. Now I'll have to visit a beach again and see if I can get some children to do it for me!
ReplyDeleteI do like all of your different photos. My son encourages his son to make things from boxes and I like that he does do that. He showed us a rocket ship the other day, with a drawbridge.
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