Reading someone else's blog made me think how i feel about having to admit that I need a stick.
I carried a rolled up umbrella all sumer rather than admit I needed a stick, I live on the sunshine coast of essex where it never rains, so I did get a few remarkes about it. (exspecting rain ? here comes mary poppins ect) but I let it go over my head. I was adamant that I was too young for a stick.
Then I remember'd grandads walking stick,or is it great grandads. My dad always refererd to it as grandads walking stick so perhaps it was his grandads. Three years ago when my dad died I found it verry hard as I supose most people do, but one of the few things I could bring myself to keep was grandads stick. It had been in dads shed all my life and i am aproaching 60, I took it home and put it in my shed assuming that is where it would stay untill one of my kids took it and put it in her shed.
This is no ordenary stick it is a thin, I think rosewood cane with a silver band on whitch is embosed a shotgun and a brace of phesants toped with a carving in bone or ivory of a dogs head snarling.(I will try to upload a picture to my media)
Since I have been using the stick I quite often get the feeling I dont actualy need it now,but i never leave the house without it, even just walking to the car parked on the drive I take the stick.
It has become like a third legg even though I have two perfectly good ones. It does not make me feel old like the rolled up umbrela did it makes me feel,,,I think the word that sums it up is dapper and I walk twice as far and fast with the stick. Its all a bit confusing, hey ho
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I decided to get one cos I could hear folk tutting at me cos I couldn't walk fast enough! I think they thought I was jay-walking 
and sometimes they would bump into me (like I was deliberately being slow and annoying)
Now I find it handy for poking at my son
 | mad-poet [Member] 2007-12-18 @ 23:41 |
how did we manage without a stick you can
poke people
ratle railings
pretend you are old so you can insult people
hold it up in the air and just strut into the road
hold it up and complain to pasers by this F,ing umbrela dont work.
scratch youre back
scratch the lady in front of you's back.(got a black eye for that)
kill spiders
poke shit
oh what fun the list goes on
 | 10loves10 [Member] 2007-12-21 @ 10:33 |
Haha.
Where do I get one?
P.S Don't think of it as an aid, more an accessory.
| mad-poet [Member] 2007-12-21 @ 11:24 |
you can have a litle lean on mine if you like.
We had here one show at TV it was called what the street can do. It was about hoaxes. And one was, that somebody dressed up like an old man with a stick and in front of him was a young lady in a short skirt. The old man was using his stick to see under her shirt. Older ladies were shocked and told him to stop, but older men looked under the skirt too :-D
So this is another thing what you can use a stick for :-)
 | RunDontWalk pro http://menomamauk.blog.co.uk 2007-12-19 @ 04:37 |
Tis great to see you here. Bet you look dashing wiff a stick. Cheers
| mad-poet [Member] 2007-12-19 @ 13:07 |
I dont do much dashing these days more lurching and stumbleing
nice to see you
 | la_spice [Member] 2007-12-19 @ 09:52 |
Walk proud - I bet you cut a dash! There's something Mr Darcy about a man with a walking stick! 
| mad-poet [Member] 2007-12-19 @ 13:10 |
Mr Darcy hey,The tight trousers dont look so good on me but I have got some shiny black wellies
| la_spice [Member] 2007-12-19 @ 15:46 |
Get your coat - you've pulled! 
| mad-poet [Member] 2007-12-19 @ 20:18 |
must I dress up as mr Darcey or can I come as James Bond or my more normal werzle Gummage
2007-12-20 @ 21:49
sounds very groovy and obviously works....you now walk better! 
what more could one ask!
| mad-poet [Member] 2007-12-20 @ 22:02 |
How about a pair of roller blades to zoom along the sea front on
2007-12-20 @ 22:13
sounds good....you could have a little wheel on the bottom of the walking stick so you'd feel safe.
| mad-poet [Member] 2007-12-21 @ 22:40 |
and some flashing tinsle of course
2007-12-21 @ 23:21
darn right!!! and the cool groovy sunglasses too of course.....
| mad-poet [Member] 2007-12-22 @ 13:11 |
And I am learnig to talk lice a black American teenage to incraes my street cred..Yo mon
 | isadora101 [Member] 2007-12-20 @ 22:45 |
I think your stick has magical powers...I want one like it!
| mad-poet [Member] 2007-12-21 @ 22:43 |
mad poet and his magical stick Sounds like a story I should wright I smell film rights
 | boredrich [Member] 2007-12-22 @ 16:12 |
you gotta have a stick I dont know what I would do without mine It started off as a useful crutch but now it is just a method to fight my way through the crowds
 | miramaze [Member] 2008-01-11 @ 22:23 |
Walking sticks are tres chic ! yours sounds gorgeous . This summer a friendäs father had one that I thought was very elegant - he said it was from France.
My right knee is weak and unstable as a result of a skiing injury years ago , so I am looking for a magic stick. I think they are so elegant !
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| mad-poet [Member] 2008-01-11 @ 23:12 |
The mistiriose lady with the stick I hope you find a nice one something in ebbony perhaps with a large silver embosed knob with some mother of pearl inlay and a polished brass ferrel on the botome.is there such a stick
| miramaze [Member] 2008-01-11 @ 23:18 |
That is a most beautiful stick ! Let it step forth ... now
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| isadora101 [Member] 2008-01-13 @ 11:02 |
He came, he saw, he went, he came back!!..oh never mind...HAPPY BIRTHDAY..oh elusive one
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