dougdeep
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What did we all get up too? Waving our flag? Sussex dances? Beating the bounds? Pub games? Songs and prayers to the Sussex saint? Stoolball? 
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Sussex Day.
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Dancing Sock
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Now's the time to be marching.
Lincoln Imp
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- Feb 2, 2009
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I walked up and down the twitten near my house.
tinycowboy
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I wheeled a wheelbarrow round my garden, in the manner of St Cuthman. Didn't end up in Steyning though. Then I pinned a round-headed rampion in my buttonhole and wouldn't be druv.
Tricky Dicky
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I loved stoolball at school.
wardy wonder land
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- Dec 10, 2007
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carried a trug to the pub for some bevvies with some old kiddies
Stoolball is sort of a cross between cricket and rounders, played with an oversized table-tennis bat. I used to play in PE lessons at Clymping St. Mary's School.
Return of the Rev
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Woke up with charlie ripping open the rubbish,took the dog up on the downs where he jumped in a black eyed susan had some bren-cheese for lunch which made me chipper,might have a game of bittle battle later,hope you are not left too boffled
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Doc Lynam
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- Jun 19, 2011
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Yeah i remember it now, long handled thing! My heart would sink when that game was pulled out. I always preferred more contact games. We used to play dry ice hockey without skates loved it.
Perhaps we should all have carried out a pilgrimage to the most sacred place in Sussex. According to Wiki the first king of the Southern Saxons, among others, could still be there.
It has been conjectured that, as Saxon war leader, Ælle may have met his death in the disastrous battle of Mount Badon when the Britons halted Saxon expansion. If Ælle died within the borders of his own kingdom then it may well have been that he was buried on Highdown Hill with his weapons and ornaments in the usual mode of burial among the South Saxons. Highdown Hill is the traditional burial-place of the kings of Sussex.
It has been conjectured that, as Saxon war leader, Ælle may have met his death in the disastrous battle of Mount Badon when the Britons halted Saxon expansion. If Ælle died within the borders of his own kingdom then it may well have been that he was buried on Highdown Hill with his weapons and ornaments in the usual mode of burial among the South Saxons. Highdown Hill is the traditional burial-place of the kings of Sussex.
I may well have also harked to a merry bugle
Doc Lynam
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Bwian
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- Jul 14, 2003
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The away team dressing room could have been the venue for a variant of the game...Stoolwall
- Aug 8, 2005
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That's nice.
- Aug 8, 2005
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Whilst marching along your way perhaps?
JCL - the new kid in town
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- Aug 23, 2011
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I ate a whole banoffee pie, felt a bit sick