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Title: Mum & Stool Ball Team
Post by: omega 1 on Wednesday 29 December 10 09:08 GMT (UK)
Hi

Please could someone repair the Photo.Mum is on the left with board in her hand

Hope the photo is ok,its been a long time since i`ve tried to put a photo on the board.

Omega
Title: Re: Mum & Stool Ball Team
Post by: cazza59 on Wednesday 29 December 10 10:06 GMT (UK)
Before I have a go at this pic, I must ask...What is stool ball???


Caroline
Title: Re: Mum & Stool Ball Team
Post by: artistic on Wednesday 29 December 10 10:07 GMT (UK)
Here is one slight improvement...
Title: Re: Mum & Stool Ball Team
Post by: omega 1 on Wednesday 29 December 10 10:13 GMT (UK)
Hi

Caroline,Stool Ball was a Field Game,dont know much about it apart from a few years ago it was still being played in Sussex.I had a Friend who played it.

Hi Artistic

Thats brilliant thank-you

omega :)
Title: Re: Mum & Stool Ball Team
Post by: artistic on Wednesday 29 December 10 10:26 GMT (UK)
You are welcome :)

Stoolball is strongly associated with Easter, and some historians theorise that the game was a Christian adaption of pagan ball games strongly associated with fertility rites. This is evidenced throughout early literature where the game is also strongly associated with romance and courtship, and in Fletcher and Shakespeare's comedy The Two Noble Kinsmen, the phrase "playing stool ball" is used as a euphemism for sexual behaviour.

Stoolball makes an appearance in the dictionary of Samuel Johnson, where it is defined as a game played by driving a ball from stool to stool.

According to Alice Gomme, the earliest references show that the game was called Stobball or Stoball, and was a game peculiar to North Wilts, North Gloucestershire, and a little part of Somerset, near Bath.

for more nfo check : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoolball
Title: Re: Mum & Stool Ball Team
Post by: tabsearch on Wednesday 29 December 10 10:39 GMT (UK)
Hi Omega

A very quick one from me before taking my wife shopping.  ;)

David
Title: Re: Mum & Stool Ball Team
Post by: cazza59 on Wednesday 29 December 10 10:58 GMT (UK)
Hi Omega

Here's my go.

Thanks for that Mike...very interesting.  I have obviously never heard of it until now.  Can't say Rootschat isn't a wealth of information!

Caroline

PS Bit of a rush job as a show is about to start on TV which I'm keen to watch, and that doesn't happen often.  :o
Title: Re: Mum & Stool Ball Team
Post by: troman on Wednesday 29 December 10 11:30 GMT (UK)
One from me.

Trevor
Title: Re: Mum & Stool Ball Team
Post by: omega 1 on Wednesday 29 December 10 11:37 GMT (UK)
Hi

Just come back for taking the dog for a walk,& have`nt i been spoilt while gone i`ve been gone.

Love them all,thank-you so much.

omega  :)
Title: Re: Mum & Stool Ball Team
Post by: PaulaToo on Wednesday 29 December 10 12:15 GMT (UK)
Ouch!
Looks like a fun one.
Never heard of Stool Ball till now...
Sounds interesting.... ;)
Title: Re: Mum & Stool Ball Team
Post by: kesannah on Thursday 30 December 10 19:35 GMT (UK)
Paula, There's a first time for everything :)
Title: Re: Mum & Stool Ball Team
Post by: PaulaToo on Sunday 09 January 11 18:15 GMT (UK)
Here's mine.
Good pic, and interesting too.