Or you`ll end up with a broken collar bone, broken wrist and a fractured radius when you collide with a dry stone wall uppy_dog
just make sure there`s something at the bottom to slow you down
), we used a big rubber ring as a puck. No one fell through the ice, no nancy pamby teachers interfered on "safety grounds" It was just good harmless fun, still remember it now!
Sort of weird the times printing sledge plans
Did any one try using a plastic fertiliser sack stuffed with hay, that thing goes fast. I remember one winter we built our version of the cresta run with banked bends down a steep hill and so forth. We actually preferred flying off the corners at speed and doing spectacular stunt falls to show off LOL That same winter the pond at the bottom end of the school playing fields froze over and we played an impromptu version of ice hockey (more like sedgefield soccer really
Draven - I got a copy of the catalogue from some C&H exhibition from a cheap bookshop for about £3 a few years back - I have a quick flick through from time to time. It's lovely to get a quick reminder.
The book has the original black and white and colour versions of the ones in it - and also includes the throwaway title strip that most papers never published. Some of those titles make the actual story even funnier.
It really was a wonderful strip.
Every autumn I enjoy a bit of *shoof* *shoof* through the leaves. Some people give you funny looks, but there's nothing quite like it.
Great fun - I remember when I first read the "Yukon ho!" story, after preparing my backpack with mars bars and a squirt-gun and sharpening my penknife on a bit of slate, asking my mother how to get to the Yukon from Skye Also borrowed Calvin's idea of keeping a snowball in the freezer til summer ), that I'd be able to clear the nettle patch, I was mistaken 
