Clifton CC

ClaireG wrote:Mal was out earlier in the day, but I’m resisting saying he’d definitely have been Eeyore!

The old grey donkey, Eeyore stood by himself in a thistly corner of the Forest, his front feet well apart, his head on one side, and thought about things. Sometimes he thought sadly to himself, "Why?" and sometimes he thought, "Wherefore?" and sometimes he thought, "Inasmuch as which?" and sometimes he didn't quite know what he was thinking about.

Eeyore, the old grey Donkey, stood by the side of the stream, and looked at himself in the water.
"Pathetic," he said. "That's what it is. Pathetic."
He turned and walked slowly down the stream for twenty yards, splashed across it, and walked slowly back on the other side. Then he looked at himself in the water again.
"As I thought," he said. "No better from this side. But nobody minds. Nobody cares. Pathetic, that's what it is."

Quotes from Winnie the Pooh!

You know what - Claire and AA milne are worryingly perceptive?

Ah having a four and six year old, I know this so well - Eeyore's Birthday. I'm rather a fan of Pooh's cool Zen:- (I can't be bothered going upstairs to get the book so this isn't a quote it's from memory) - whilst Piglet and Pooh are walking through the Hundred Acre wood on a blusterous day, Piglet (nervous as ever), 'supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' Pooh:- "Supposing it didn't"

I don't what this is to do with cycling, but maybe, 'what if we were cycling and we got a puncture?'
'Supposing we didn't?'

or 'supposing we cycle up a big steep hill and I get dropped?'
'Supposing you don't?'

Doesn't quite work, anyone else come up with something better?