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Thanks everyone for your suggestions - I'm going to make a few tweaks now... As for playing the game - we did it in the snow as you have to stomp out a track (I'm sure you could do it in the sand or draw it out with chalk on a big slab of pavement). You make a large circle and have spokes going into the centre. This is the track and you can't go off of it in the game. You then have someone who is the fox (the person who is 'it') and the others are the geese. The fox chases the geese and if a goose is caught they become the fox, the old fox is a goose and the game continues...it's just another form of tag really. Funny as I was writing this, I was about to put in the expression "you can't tag the butcher" which is what we said as kids all the time as in you can't tag the person who tagged you. Anyone know it's origin - I could guess at it - as in the person who tags you is "slaughtering" you so they are called the butcher...hmmmm.... -----Original Message----- From: Patrick McManus [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 14 March 2008 10:00 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Fox & Geese Itried to remember fox and geese (well it was a long time ago!)but could not find it in wikipedia-does it have another name?? perhaps I could try it with my granddaughters?? Cheers Patrick -----Original Message----- From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Heather Taylor Sent: 12 March 2008 10:27 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Fox & Geese Fox & Geese I was always one of the first Stomping the ground Flattening snow in a perfect wheel Spokes radiating out from its core. Only boys played this, the boys and me The unofficial member of the testosterone clan, Circling each other in our game of fox catch goose Sometimes me the pursuer, sometimes them The thoughts of kisses left for other years. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.21.7/1324 - Release Date: 10/03/2008 19:27