Caryn Hunt

@sciencegirl My mum had children as her remote control 😂🤣😂

Early TV remote control design from 1961

@vikinghistory @gunsnrosesgirl3 So good for them! Here in England many people used to do it as well and then suddenly they stopped and now we have lots of child ailments.....

@gunsnrosesgirl3 In Norway it's common to let babies sleep outside in freezing winter temperatures.

@A_AMilne My mum always got us to touch wood and to have a wooden charm on our keyrings so we could always touch wood for good luck.

“Life must be a tricky thing for the superstitious. At dinner I happened to say that I had never been in danger of drowning. I was ordered to touch wood. I tapped the table two or three times... and now I suppose I am immune. I should like to know whom I have appeased.”~A.A.Milne

@A_AMilne Pooh, you are so wise to write hanks.... Handkerchief was a word I always spelt wrong and that meant I had to restart my letter 😭

Aunt Ethel, darling, all my thanks For that delightful box of hanks, And now, in haste to catch the post, And hoping Uncle George is better, I chose this rather hurried letter With once again a thousand thanks For that delightful box of hanks. ~A.A.Milne #Christmas #ThankYou

@A_AMilne Favourite days! There must be a true art to doing it for many seem unable to do it anymore to the same level of contentment x

“What I like doing best is Nothing,” said Christopher Robin. “How do you do Nothing?” asked Pooh, after he had wondered for a long time. “It means just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.” “Oh!” said Pooh. ~A.A.Milne #twixtmas #DoNothing

@RichardEGrant Oh I truly believe it is rude not to sample every pudding available!

@A_AMilne Oh what a heart warming thought!!!

“Who was Wenceslas-or ‘Wenceslaus’ as it is often written. Probably he is some relation to Santa Claus. They were brothers: Santa and Wense Claus. Santa brought the presents round on Christmas Day, and Wense looked out on Boxing Day to see no mistakes had been made.”~A.A.Milne

@A_AMilne We should be the ones to thank you! Where else could we all be reminded that the simple pleasures that are happening right now are the things we should focus on, that together - with all our differences - we can help each other through anything. Thank You x

On this #ChristmasEve I would like to thank you all for helping to make this account the friendly, warm and kind community it is, where we can share a positive moment in each day. I hope it makes a small difference in our rather turbulent world. Merry Christmas and thank you ❤️🎄

@A_AMilne I feel sorry for those that walk around with their eyes closed to everything around them. That would be like stepping outside when it's dark and not looking up at the stars...

Pooh is really alive and does things, but a Teddy Bear is just a toy which sits about and does nothing; and we feel that anybody who could see Pooh, if only for a moment, and not know at once that he is alive, must be a silly person. ~A.A.Milne #ChristmasPresents #toys

@A_AMilne It truly is..... Thank you for reminding us xx

“Wenceslas was perhaps the most beloved King who ever lived. He was a Prince of Peace. I think that to have lived so long ago, and ever since to have been a song on the lips of the world, just because he was gentle, is a wonderful thing to have happened.” ~A.A.Milne #Christmas

@A_AMilne So true! And enclose is a little note of correspondence to add that personal touch 🥰

“The Christmas card habit is a pleasant one, but it needs to be disciplined. We convey our printed wishes for a happy Christmas to everybody. This is a mistake. Let us reserve our cards for the old friends who have dropped out of our lives.” ~A.A.Milne (1920) #christmascards

@A_AMilne Judging from my reluctance to get out of bed, I should have been a bear!

If I were a bear And a big bear too I shouldn’t much care If it froze or snew; I shouldn’t much mind If it snowed or friz - I’d be all fur-lined With a coat like his! With a big brown furry-down up to my head, I’d sleep all the winter in a big fur bed.~A.A.Milne #SundayThoughts

@A_AMilne I agree Pooh! At 5.30am when I walk through the spinney with the dogs, everything appears spooky and strange and I long to still be tucked up safely in bed....

In the half-light the Pine Trees looked cold and lonely, and the Very Deep Pit seemed deeper than it was, and Pooh’s jar of honey at the bottom was something mysterious, a shape and no more. #Wednesdayvibe #imagination

@A_AMilne Spending time in contemplation is good for your mind and soul. Thank you for sharing x

He sits and thinks of the things they know He and the Forest, alone together The springs that come and the summers that go, Autumn dew on bracken and heather, The drip of the Forest beneath the snow… ~A.A.Milne #seasons

@A_AMilne So jealous of a crackling fireplace! Instead I have two dogs and a cat snuggled up keeping my toes, legs and lap warm, whilst I stare longingly at my cup of tea that is just out of reach ........

One day when Pooh Bear had nothing else to do, he thought he would do something, so he went round to Piglet’s house to see what Piglet was doing. He stumped over the Forest track, and expected to find Piglet warming his toes in front of his fire. ~A.A.Milne #cold #SaturdayVibes

@A_AMilne Eyes looking through me to something so interesting. A mouth that shows kindness and a quiet humour. Thank you for sharing

“The mouth is a true index of character. It is through the mouth and eyes that all emotions are expressed. I did read once of a man whose nose quivered with rage, but it is not usual; I never heard of anyone whose chin did anything. It would be absurd to expect it to.” ~A.A.Milne

@A_AMilne And you would ask your dad 'How much further are we going?' And it would always be the same reply.... 'just round the corner.'

There was a roaring in the sky; The sea-gulls cried as they blew by, We tried to talk, but had to shout - Nobody else was out. When we got home, we had sand in the hair, In the eyes and the ears and everywhere. ~A.A.Milne #wind #StormBabet #rain

@A_AMilne This poem always brings a smile to my face, I used to love to recite this as fast as I possibly could! I still ask people if they have the 'sneezles'. Xx

Christopher Robin Had wheezles And sneezles, They bundled him Into His bed. They gave him what goes With a cold in the nose, And some more for a cold In the head. ~A.A.Milne #MondayMorning

@A_AMilne Life and people can be so thrilling and will sweep you off your feet in a blink of an eye. However, it is always the people that ground you, that are a quiet constant in your life, that will be there for you no matter what.

Christopher Robin and Pooh and Piglet picked themselves up first, and then they picked Tigger up, and underneath everybody else was Eeyore. “Oh, Eeyore!” cried Christopher Robin. “Are you hurt?” And he felt him anxiously, dusted him and helped him to stand up again. ~A.A.Milne

@A_AMilne Society was different then and you weren't ment to show your feelings. It is amazing that he found a way to express himself. However, we have a little of each of these wonderful characters in us, we all need to learn to recognise and embrace each one.

“Most of us have small, sad places in our hearts. My father felt deeply but kept his feelings to himself. Or rather, being a writer, he let them escape in his writing. And so such sadnesses as there were put on cap and bells and emerged as Eeyore.”~C.R.Milne #WorldMentalHealthDay