Something for the Cotter freaks

gaaah! That mental image is worse than the pooh.

At least a pooh doesn’t go “raarrarrrrarrarrraaaraaah”.

I think they should use your story Ant. I can picture Stanhope reading out that last sentence.

I am not sure they’d like my story. It was in the 70s, and my very progressive school decided to head to the Cotter. I realise now that our hippy teachers and some parents wanted to attend the festival that was on there, and figured it’d help us on our journey to hippydom. But anyway.

We got there (primary school age kids) to find the place packed, and every one was NAKED. Turns out it was some kind of festival of the sun or some damn thing, attended by the Friends of teh Earth. Who were all naked. They all had tents and stuff, and various organised hibby-esque activities going on. And they were all naked.

Well, we went around and looked and after a while got used to all the wobbling around, and by the end of the day some of the kids had even taken the plunge and stripped off completely!

My parting memory though is that someond had done a large pooh on one of the river stones.

barking toad said :

Maria Doogan’s report

Nah, that’s already been buried by Stanhope!

Abseiling head first down the dam wall at 1am to celebrate a friends 21st birthday?

Maria Doogan’s report

Was that in bad taste?

I think a graphical representation of “heading off to the Cotter” might be classes as non-family classified?!

Could the capsule itself be an Orchy bottle?

I could write or draw some of things I’ve gotten up to at the Cotter, but they won’t be things you’d want to show to a bunch of corporate sponsors, or repeat the stories into a microphone.