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General => The Shed => Topic started by: Palustris on August 20, 2014, 20:41:10
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Ok, as some folks may know I have been known to write children's stories. I am in the middle of one now and I am stuck. It is set in the mid 1950's and is one of a series about a gang of 10 year old lads and their adventures (a sort of lower class William thing). So, the lads are visiting an old disused quarry now turned into a public park. I needed something to send them off exploring so I thought of a Scavenger Hunt. Trouble is I cannot come up with enough items for them to find. I have feather, gorse flower, daisy, acorn, sycamore key, piece of sandstone, small white pebble, bit of bracken, piece of other fern, match stick and clover. 3 or 4 more needed.
No damage to property or wildlife allowed, so no live creatures or their homes.
anyone got any ideas, pretty please?
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Blackberry, bilberries/winberries, Hazelnut?
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Should have said, takes place in mid August and the things have to be put in a paper bag.
Thanks Jayb. Hazelnut is a possibility.
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horse chestnuts (maybe too early), cob nuts, damsons or sloes rosehips , crab apples.
not sure if that would help
Nora
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a sloe, a thistle head, crab apple, rosehip/haw, rabbit/deer dropping (you'd be amazed/revolted at what we picked up as kids! Cowpat frisbee anyone?) or tufts of bunny fluff from near the burrow, bottlecap.
Any of those any good?
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Mid fifties. Silver paper. discarded in every cigarette packet.
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Thanks folks that gives me enough to be carrying on with the story.
Only been stuck on it for 30 years!