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POOHSTICKS: A GAME BORN AT THE HOUSE OF POOH CORNER

By on April 2, 2009 in AA Milne, Christopher Robin, dorchester, EH Shepard, Pooh Bear, Pooh Sticks, Poohsticks, river thames, Winnie the Pooh

I wondered where Poohsticks came from, so I tracked down a copy of The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne, and there on page 91 we find Pooh inventing the game, by accidentally dropping a fir cone off a bridge. The story develops when Pooh, Rabbit, Roo and Piglet are throwing sticks (easier to [...]

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INTERNATIONAL POOHSTICKS COMPETITION ON THE RIVER THAMES, NEAR DORCHESTER

By on March 30, 2009 in dorchester, long wittenham, Pooh Sticks, river thames

The World Poohsticks Championships are held on the Thames at Long Wittenham near Dorchester, just a few miles downstream from Oxford. Winnie the Pooh, a favourite of character of mine since childhood, was written by A.A. Milne and was set loosely in Ashdown Forest in Kent, many miles from here. But no matter, it’s all [...]

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