by Ben Ross | Jan 13, 2017 | 100 Days Of Play
I love the power of Play to get you looking more closely and carefully at the world. It reveals the layered reality that is all around us, but that we so easily walk by when we’re not paying attention. I talked a couple of weeks ago about how Hide and Seek gets...
by Ben Ross | Jan 12, 2017 | 100 Days Of Play
When I talk about play people often say – or look like they want to – ‘Oh, you mean like children do?’ I have to give them a look that is somewhere between withering and disappointed and calmly explain that play is for life, not just for...
by Ben Ross | Jan 11, 2017 | 100 Days Of Play
The rolled and plaited newspaper catches in three or four places as I move the match below it. The paper takes rapidly, flaring up into tall flames, moving quickly and soon burning up its fuel. The teepee of kindling atop it is bathed in light; starts emitting light...
by Ben Ross | Jan 10, 2017 | 100 Days Of Play
What would have you creeping around the woods, poking around undergrowth, or walking along the river foreshore scraping away at the surface mud? That’s right, the once, and to a lesser degree still, popular hobby of bottle-digging. Here bottles thrown away by...
by Ben Ross | Jan 9, 2017 | 100 Days Of Play
It’s a bit ‘Do what you love and you won’t work a day in your life’. When I was little, the chore I would do to earn a tiny amount of pocket money (unprotected as I was by any minimum wage legislation) was to wash the car. But I...
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