Storytelling Starters ~ The unexpected
Hey, what’s this?
A swing – but not where the old one used to be.
What’s it say on that bit of paper that’s hanging on the end?
‘Swing on this at your leisure.’
Wonder who put it there?
Don’t know.
Hey look, here’s a fairy doll, set in the bole of this tree.
Ever seen it before? It’s kind of spooky.
It can’t have been there before, we’d have seen it.
Wonder who put it there?
No idea.
Hey, look at this on this fallen tree.
Amazing – it’s a coin set into the trunk!
But look, there’s lots of them, some look very old, they’ve obviously been there a long time.
Ever seen them before in all the times we’ve been here?
Never. But then, there’s nothing like looking for seeing.
P.S. These exchanges and the photographs come from an evening walk through the woods on the way to Abermawr beach in North Pembrokeshire on 3rd June.
Tags: Abermawr, coin, fairy doll, swing