Diddily Dee Dot's Dreamland for Children Everywhere Hopscotch
diddilydeedotsdreamland THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING GULAB JAMUNS
adapted from the story by Sangeetha Narayan
From the DIMDIMA Oct 2008
I looked up from my Spider Man comics. at last there was a strange noise in the kitchen. You see, I had set a trap! "Why because for the past couple of days, our house has been in turmoil. The delicious looking gulab jamuns that my mother so painstakingly prepared each day, kept disappearing without any clue as to who the culprit was! And since everyone knew of my weakness for anything sweet, I was the obvious suspect. "I'm very disappointed with you Arun!" said my mom. "Not only have you stolen, but you have added lying to your list of crimes. If you haven't said you are sorry, or at least found out where the sweets are going. I'm afraid I shall have to punish you severely. Now I knew I was in trouble, and I had two options, either confess to a crime I hadn't committed or find out who is the real thief was.. I always fancied myself as a detective, so this was my chance to put my detective prowess to the test. Seeking into the kitchen, from whence the noise came. I crept up behind the cupboard where the gulab jamuns had been strategically placed by me earlier. I would catch this culprit red handed. Can you imagine my surprise when I realised that the thief was my young sister! The naughty girl had let everyone believe I was a thief and a liar, how could she do that to me. So I decided to surprise her, and crept up behind her, hoping to catch her eating her first delicious jamuns. But she wasn't eating anything, in fact she was busy pouring the sweets from our container into another one. But why? A good detective, realising there was more to this story, quietly backed away and then retrieving my camera from the bedroom, I followed Nitya through the door. Then I thought, Nitya hated sweet things, so why would she be taking these? It was becoming a bigger riddle than I thought. I followed my sister, down the road and through the small park. Goodness me I suddenly realised she was going to our secret hiding place. But she stopped just before the way into our den and say down on the grass. She looked at her watch and just kept watching, she was definitely waiting for someone, but who could it be. Suddenly a big smile crossed her face and I immediately held the camera to my eye, to take the photo that would prove my innocence and her guilt. But it was not to be. As I looked at the young girl who came over to Nitya and sat besides her on the grass. I realised that I had seen this little one before. She was a young beggar girl. One whom we often passed on our way home from school. She was always at the corner of the street begging with her baby brother. I let the camera fall down by my side as I realised the treat that my small sister was giving to the little girl. Who quickly ate away the gulab jamuns, leaving no photo and no proof. They were gone in seconds, then the little one , looked up and smiled , putting her hands on Nitya's shoulders and said, "Thank you Didi!* I have never eaten such delicious sweets." I left them chatting. I walked back home, wondering what to do. I decided that the best thing to do was to tell mother everything. I knew she wouldn't be to angry at my sister. And this is what I did. I was very pleased that mom believed me, and Nitya was given a small telling off for not telling mom what she was doing, and also for getting me into trouble, but she also made sure that from that day on, she made a few extra gulab jamuns for the little beggar girl and her brother.
*In India, A"Didi," is like a sister, a true friend. I also found this about a Didi, and thought it looked really nice.
Three types of tears are generated by the human eye. Basal tears
protect the eye and keep it moist. ~ Reflex tears flush out the eye when
it becomes irritated. ~ And emotional tears flow in response to sadness,
distress, or physical pain.
"It is the third of these tears that are the most important for men and women, as well, as our children."
Scotch Eggs
So fattening but so good! This recipe makes 6 Scotch eggs.
6 hard-cooked eggs, well chilled
1 pound breakfast sausage
1/2 cup flour
2 eggs, beaten
3/4 cup fine bread crumbs
Vegetable oil for frying
Peel eggs and set aside. Divide sausage into 6 portions.
Roll each egg in flour and with hands press a portion of the sausage
around each egg.
Dip sausage-wrapped eggs into beaten eggs and roll in
bread crumbs. Heat vegetable oil to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Cook each egg in oil about 4-5 minutes or until sausage
is cooked and browned. Drain on paper toweling. Serve warm.
From Hop Scotch to Scottish Tablet My boys made this every weekend they loved it
2 lbs Sugar 2 tlbs Syrup small tin condensed milk (sweetened) 2 ozs Margarine 3 ozs water 1/2 tsp Vanilla
Place all in pan. Melt slowly. Stir till boiling. Boil about 30 minutes. Remove from heat and beat well and pour into greased tin. Mark when cool; cut when cold.
So easy to make, delicious to eat, but get a grown up to help with the hot liquid
from the same wonderful Recipe site a little Chrismassy Fayre SNOWBALLS
2 cups Self Rising Flour
1 Egg
1 tablespoon Milk
1/4 cup Sugar
Pinch Salt
1/4 cup Margarine or butter
Coconut
Melted Jam
Cream margarine, sugar and salt. Add egg with a little flour. Beat well. Stir in the rest of flour. Mixture should be fairly stiff. Divide mixture into 24 pieces, flour hands and roll each piece into a ball. Place on a greased baking sheet and bake at 350 for 8 - 10 minutes. When cold sandwich together with jam, brush over with heated jam or thin water icing and roll in coconut.
So yummy, so bad for your teeth, but heck, you're only young once so GO FOR IT !
ONE, TWO, THREE O'LEARY.
This is the game I taught my youngest grand daughter Molly over the summer holidays. Luckily I have a private big brick wall, because I thnk the only bad thing you can say about this game is if you have little horrors who use anyones wall. hmm, you end up losing a lot of tennis balls that way. Believe me, I KNOW been there, done that
Two balls and a wallis a children's game played in the
United Kingdom.
The game is played by standing next to a wall and
throwing a ball at the ground so that it bounces off the ground, then
wall, and returns to the player.
Once the first ball is in the air, a
second ball is thrown.
Balls are thrown and caught in a rotation.
The
player must perform a sequence of stances while the balls are in
flight.
If, during one stance, a ball is dropped, the player must go
back to the first stance and start again.
The game is mentioned in the 1957 book "The Only Child", by James Kirkup
(born 1918).
There were songs sung along with the game. The words most
closely associated with it are "One Two Three O’Leary", which was
adapted into a pop song by Des O’Connor. This was the version I knew and played as a child in the Back Entry's of Liverpool 13. It was taught to all the kids, mainly by all the Irish children who lived in and around Kremlin Drive back in the late fourties and fifties.
(Which makes me thiink of the Kelly's who took great delight in throwing live cat's over the wall and onto my Uncle's greenhouse. Little toureg's I think it was my Uncle called them. I felt sorry for the cats, many did die through their cruelty even in those days. It is nothing new dear children, not at all.)
It is also the title of a song written by Woody Herman and Wally Bishop and recorded by the Andrews Sisters.
This next piece of information is from Wikipedia again, but none of it has been verified yet. Can anyone email me with any earlier facts.
The game is unlikely to have existed prior to the invention of the cheap tennis ball. In Britain
at least, it cannot have come about earlier than 1921, when a company
called Avon started to mass produce tennis balls. It is not well
documented, but the game was common in the UK from the early 1950s. It
does not appears to have a widely accepted name.
The name “sixes” is
used to indicate that each stance had to be performed six times. The
name “ten” is used to indicate that the first (easy) stance had to be
performed ten times, the next one nine times, until the most difficult
stance was done.
It appears to have died out in the late eighties. The
game was also known in Sweden.
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ONE POTATO, TWO POTATO, THREE POTATO, FOUR!
IN ENGLISH NOUGHTS AND CROSSES, IN AMERICA TIC TAC TOE
but no matter where we are in the world, all you need is a writing pad, or pieces of paper. a pencil or pen, crayon, felt tip.
Anything that you can write with and make an X or 0,
0X0 no points XXX 10 points 000 10 points
a draw 2 points each, that way you try to win and not just draw a game all the time.
I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE
SOMETHING BEGINNING WITH D * * DIDDILY
I spy is a guessing game
usually played wit your family or friends, as a party game with young children. It is also very helpful in teaching younger children in
both their observation of things and of course the letters of the alphabet.
I spy can be played practically anywhere, in the house, any room even the littlest one,hehe. In the car but rules must be laid down so that the driver , (an harassed Dad is not good driving a car.) On a Picnic, Ona a train, bus journey, Oh so many places.
So how do we play it, very easily:
One person starts by choosing an object (perhaps a cow) and
says
"I spy with my little eye, something beginning with C".
The other
players look around and suggest things it might be:
The person who guesses correctly gets
to choose the next object.
A Little note,
NO CHANGING THE WORD, THAT'S NAUGHTY AND CHEATING
When played in a car, it is better to decide beforehand what to do
about the spying, my kids didn't allow things in the car to be used. Only trouble is when your traveling at fifty miles an hour what you spied will be long gone before the others have a chance to guess it. SO an added "I spy with my little eye" becomes things like green grass - GG, oak trees OT, road works - RW, road markings - RM, zebra crossing - ZC, telegraph pole, phone box, kerb stones, white fence.
In other words don't have single letters have doubles or if really brave how about multiples... "I spy with my
little eye something beginning with B A W C" for "Black and white cow".
Another variation of this game is to play using colors, such as 'I spy
with my little eye something that is green'.
A further variation to the game is titled, 'I hear with my little
ear'. It functions, as the title suggests, with sounds instead of sights. Such a little game yet full of many possiblities for fun, and hopefully No tears.
This extra information comes from Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia .
Spanish-speaking
countries have a slight variation of the game. Instead of declaring the
letter in a single phrase, Latin American countries play the following
dialogue:
"Veo, Veo" (I see, I see)
"¿Qué ves?" (What do you see?)
"Una cosa" (A thing)
"¿Qué cosa?" (What thing?)
"Maravillosa" (Wonderful [thing])
"¿De qué color?" (What color?)
"Color, color..." (Color, color...)
The person then names the color of the object picked up. Another
variation, more faithful to the original, has the person choosing a
letter instead of a color.
In Germany,
the phrase is closer to the English one: Ich sehe was, was du nicht
siehst, und das ist... and the color of the object is stated.
Translated, it reads "I see something that you don't see, and that
is..."
HOPSCOTCH
Hm-m-m, what is hopscotch? Can anybody tell me?
This is a Magpie hopscotch at Morecambe Pier, in England. The rhyme
reads: One for sorrow: Two for mirth : Three for a wedding : Four for a birth
: Five for rich : Six for poor : Seven for a witch : I can tell you no more.
Hopscotch it a game which is in almost every school play yard all over the world. This is just a few and it's Country name?
France - Escargot, Russia - knagguku, Mexico - bebeleche , Poland - klasy class
New York - Potsy, Malaysia - tengteng, India - chikki-billa, Persia - laylay,
To play hopscotch, a course is first laid out. Traditionally, children drew
the course in the dirt of a playground whenever needed, although it was often
chalked on pavement when dirt was unavailable. Traditionally the course ends with a "safe" or "home" base in
which the player may turn before completing the reverse trip. The home base may
be a square, a rectangle, or a semi-circle. The squares are then numbered in the order of which they are to be hopped.
The first player tosses the marker (typically a stone, or bean bag) into
the first square. The marker must land completely within the designated square
and without touching a line or bouncing out.
This one on your right is the one that is used nowadays along with the coloured one below.
The player then hops through the
course, skipping the square with the marker in it. Single squares must be hopped
on one foot. For the first single square, either foot may be used.
Side by side
squares are straddled, with the left foot landing in the left square, and the
right foot landing in the right square. Optional squares marked "Safe", "Home",
or "Rest" are neutral squares, and may be hopped through in any manner without
penalty.
Upon successfully completing the sequence, the player continues the turn by
tossing the marker into square number two, and repeating the pattern.
If while hopping through the court in either direction the player steps on a
line, misses a square, or loses balance, the turn ends. Players begin their
turns where they last left off. The first player to complete one course for
every numbered square on the court wins the game.
Although the marker is most often picked up during the game, historically, in
the boy's game, the marker was kicked sequentially back through the course on
the return trip and then kicked out.
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An old hopscotch game, that was taken on School Street in Boston.
by Yannick Trottier
2007
I think that this one is very, very beautiful. It truely is a game of Hopscotch dating back to the turn of the last century 1900.
look how alike the diagram of the 1900 American diagram is to the photo taken by
From Hop Scotch to Scottish Tablet
SNOWBALLS
been there, done that 
I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE
HOPSCOTCH
irt was unavailable. Traditionally the course ends with a "safe" or "home" base in
which the player may turn before completing the reverse trip. The home base may
be a square, a rectangle, or a semi-circle. The squares are then numbered in the order of which they are to be hopped.
d, with the left foot landing in the left square, and the
right foot landing in the right square. Optional squares marked "Safe", "Home",
or "Rest" are neutral squares, and may be hopped through in any manner without
penalty.
