Has anyone actually been in an egg and spoon race? I've only read about them in books.

[cimorene]

The problem with getting a bee in your bonnet about a new interest when it's drawing is that you keep drawing until your right hand feels a bit burny without necessarily noticing and you still keep wanting to draw more anyway.

I don't have a readily-accessible pile of stuff to read at the moment, just a list of books to track down. They don't work as a distraction if you have to go looking for them first. I'm trying knitting to give my hand a break from lettering now, which seems silly because it's something else that can make my hand cramp! But it's not quite the same muscles and movements, so maybe it'll work for a while. It did for a couple of hours last night anyway.

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[which_chick]

I have egg-and-spooned on foot (elementary school) and ALSO on horseback, where it is a fairly common "old fashioned" horse show fun class. For the horseback version, you get a standard plastic picnic spoon (the kind that comes in the big cheap bag of mixed utensils at the Dollar Store or WalMart or whatever) and a regular chicken egg, raw. You hold the spoon back about 1" from the bowl (they usually draw on the spoon with a sharpie, you must be behind the line on the spoon handle) in your preferred hand and then proceed to ride your horse as instructed by the ringmaster (eg. "Walk" or "jog" or "trot" or "canter" or "halt" and so forth...) until there is only one person with an egg-equipped spoon left. Once your egg leaves the spoon, you go to the center of the ring to wait until the class is over. It's a good time.

[cimorene]

ON HORSEBACK... the images! I wish they did this as part of haut ecole so I would've seen it in the same clip compilations with the horse dancing and hopping.