I only hope this is me in 50 years!

This video is just pure fun and joy. I loved it when I saw it so thought I would share it with everyone.

A couple who have been together for over 60 years find a piano and play a little tune with more life and fun than most half their age could muster.

Enjoy!!

Iron People

One of the most delightful ways of playing - whether as a grown up or a child - is through experiencing a play. We see plays and we might be in plays, either way, the association of 'play' is by no means a coincidence. We use our imaginations to go into a different place and world and often let other characters or people take us there.

Imagination is such a massive and important part of play because it frees us from the contraints of the world around us, and that is what gives us the ability to be grown ups!

Currently I am working with a team of adult professional theatre makers (or playsmiths) who are in turn working with a group of young people to create a play from scratch. Playing from nothing. And making everything, including a kick ass song and a story with a strong narrative message about contemporary society.

Recently we went to see Graeae's production of The Iron Man (http://www.graeae.org/productions/the-iron-man/) which was performed in a very playful way, incorporating sign language and spoken words. The Iron Man ended up playing with the actors and audience too. If giants can't play like grown ups, no-one can!

Introducing the Idea - a celebration of everything playful and fun

How to Play Like a Grown Up is an idea that we came up with on our honeymoon, when we had set ourselves the challenge to do things to spell our married name out over the week. With the surname White, Monday was W, Tuesday was H... and well you get the picture and the week panned out with us doing the following:

W for waking, washing, and walking to Watergate Bay for lunch passing Wipsederry bay. Later writing and getting wasted. We also waded, wallowed, got wet, and wowed at coastal path
Happily hopping at Headland Bay where we camped for the night. We awoke with hangovers and headed out for some Hardcore coasteering. 20ft cliff jumps later we headed off to historic Tintagal for home cooked grub and to find people to help
Intrigued in Damien Hurst's bar in Ilfracombe. We were interested in the spaghetti ice cream here. The imagery of the coastline even in pouring rain was inspiring. We really had to use our imagination

T was terrible torrential rain. We toured and trundled up the south west coast. Then to Taunton town where two tattoo places were busy. Then we tried two more places in the area which were chocka so we went to a terrifying place called The Devil's Den in Yeovil’s Take Away Alley, where we wore anoraks and looked totally out of place. Twenty pounds later we had tattoos ... here is the evidence (we both has the same surname before getting married, so we have double barreled our name, hence the tattoo)

Early to rise thanks to energetic enfants. After painting elephants, eating with the family and exploring Dorset we were ecstatic to be in the East Street Bistro for excellent edibles and a lovely way to end the honeymoon

We had great fun and friends helped us with ideas for things to do. Then when my cousin asked for ideas for her annual leave, we could not hold ourselves back from providing a list of over 30 idea, some challenges, some just plain fun. (See her blog http://kjbk86.blogspot.com/2011/07/15.html?spref=fb)

We then thought it would be great to share these ideas with the wide world and spread a bit of joy and hopefully inspire some ideas with other people, and other people can share their ideas with us to PLEASEEEE!

We do not play enough and this blog simply is a celebration of everything playful and fun.