In Which Emmerence is Unbounced
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#1: In Which Emmerence is Unbounced Author: CBB Secret Santa,  PostPosted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 6:21 pm

NB – the Odette is Odette Mercier from Richenda, Theodora etc

One day OOAO and Odette were sitting listening to OOAO and Con was sat with them. It was a cold winters afternoon and the common room was full of noisy conversation, all of which seemed to be saying to Con, “Don’t listen to OOAO, listen to me, I’m far more interesting.” So Con got into a comfortable position for not listening to OOAO and from time to time said “Ah!” or “True”.
“In fact,” said OOAO coming to the end of it at last, "Emmerence’s getting so Bouncy nowadays that it’s time we taught her a lesson. Don’t you think so Odette?”
Odette said that Emmerence was very Bouncy and that if they could think of a way of unbouncing her it would be a Very Good Idea.
“Just what I feel”, said OOAO. “What do you say, Con?”
Con opened her eyes with a jerk and said “Extremely”.
“Extremely what?” asked OOAO.
“What you were saying,” said Con. “Undoubtedly”.
Odette gave Con a stiffening sort of nudge, and Con who, yet again, felt more and more that she was somewhere else, got up slowly and began to look for herself.
“But how shall we do it?” asked Odette. “What sort of a lesson OOAO?”
The word “lesson” came back to Con as one she had heard before somewhere.
“Daniel bit the lions” she said
“Con,” said Odette reproachfully, “haven’t you been listening to what OOAO has been saying?”
Con explained that she had been listening (but not to what) but just wasn’t quite sure what OOAO had been saying.
OOAO never minded saying things again, so she spent the next half hour explaining why Emmerence was too bouncy and that something needed to be DONE!
Con tried to think, but all she could think of was something that didn’t help at all, so she hummed it to herself very quietly.

If Emmerence
Showed deference
Then surely Mary Lou
Wouldn’t make such a to do

“What was Con saying?” asked OOAO. “Any good?”
“No,” said Con sadly. “No good”
“Well I’ve got an idea, “ said OOAO, “and here it is. When we next go out, we join up with Emmerence and take a long walk to Wengernalp, and we lose her there. There’s lots of huts for her to shelter in and when we do find her the next day, she’ll be a different Emmerence altogether.”
“Why?” asked Con.
“Because she’ll be a Humble Emmerence. Because she’ll be a Sad Emmerence, a Melancholy Emmerence, a Small and Sorry Emmerence, an Oh-OOAO-I-am-glad-to see-you Emmerence. That’s why.”
“Will she be glad to see me and Odette too?”
“Of course.”
“That’s good.”
“I should hate her to go on being Sad, “ said Odette doubtfully.
“Emmerences never go on being Sad,” explained OOAO. “They get over it with Astonishing Rapidity. I asked Len, just to make sure and she said that’s what they always get over it with. But if we can make Emmerence feel Small and Sad for five minutes, we shall have done a good deed.”

The next morning the snow had stopped snowing and the sky was cloudy and grey. When they left the cloakroom, Margot came too, being a great friend of Emmerence’s, which made it Awkward; but OOAO whispered “Leave this to me” and went up to Margot.
“I don’t think you’d really better come Margot, you were coughing this morning.”
“How do you know?” asked Margot indignantly.
“Oh, Margot you never told me,” said Matey reproachfully. “Come along for a hot bath and some of my patent chest rub”

At first, Con and OOAO and Odette walked together and Emmerence ran round them in circles, then she ran ahead. By and by the sky got darker and the snow started to fall.
“Now!” said OOAO and they all jumped behind a large snow covered bush. The Alp was very quiet when you stopped to listen to it. They could see nothing and hear nothing.
“Hello!” called Emmerence, then “Where are you?”
“That’s funny,” said Emmerence and disappeared into the snow.
Then OOAO got up and stretched herself. “There we are! Just as I said.”
“I’ve been thinking,” said Con.
“No!” said OOAO, “don’t. Come on.”
And they all hurried off, OOAO leading the way.
“Now,” said OOAO, after they had gone a little way, “we can talk. What were you going to say Con?”
“Nothing much. Why are we going along here?”
“Because it’s the way home.”
“Oh!” said Con.
“Come on,” said OOAO. “I know it’s this way.”

“It’s very silly,” said OOAO, “but just for the moment I – Ah, of course. Come on”……
“Here we are,” said OOAO ten minutes later, “I think we ought to be getting – or are we a little more to the right that I thought?”……
“It’s a funny thing,” said OOAO ten minutes later, “how everything looks the same in a snowstorm. Have you noticed it Con?”
Con said she had.
“Lucky we know the Alp so well, or we might get lost,” said OOAO half an hour later and she gave the careless laugh which you give when you know the Alp so well that you can’t get lost.

When Emmerence had got tired of waiting for the others to catch her up and they hadn’t, and when she had got tired of having nobody to say, “I say, come on” to, she thought she would go back to school. So she trotted back and the first thing Matey said when she saw her, was “There’s a good Emmerence, just in time for your hot chocolate”

“The fact is,” said OOAO “we’ve missed our way somehow.”
They were having a rest by a Large Pine Tree. Con was getting rather tired of the Large Pine Tree and suspected it of following them about, because whichever direction they started in, they always ended up at it and each time, as it came through the snow at them, OOAO said triumphantly “Now I know where we are!” and Con said sadly “So do I,” and Odette said nothing. She had tried to think of something to say, but the only thing she could think of was “Help! Help!” and it seemed silly to say that when she had Con and OOAO with her.
“Well,” said OOAO, after a long silence in which nobody thanked her for the nice walk they were having, “we’d better get on I suppose. Which way shall we try?”
“How would it be,” said Con slowly, “if, as soon as we’re out of sight of this Large Pine Tree, we try to find it again?”
“What’s the good of that?” said OOAO
“Well,” said Con, we keep looking for school and not finding it, so I thought that if we looked for this Large Pine Tree, we’d be sure not to find it, which would be a Good Thing, because then we might find something that we weren’t looking for, which might be just what we were looking for, really.”
“I don’t see much sense in that,” said OOAO.
“No,” said Con humbly, “there isn’t. But there was going to be when I began it. It’s just that something happened to it on the way.”
“If I walked away from this Large Pine Tree, and then walked back to it, of course I should find it.”
“Well, I thought perhaps you wouldn’t,” said Con. “I just thought.”
“Try,” said Odette suddenly. “We’ll wait here for you.”
OOAO gave a laugh to show how silly Odette was, and walked into the snow. After she had gone a hundred yards, she turned and walked back again ……… and after Con and Odette had waited twenty minutes for her, Con got up.
“I just thought,” said Con. “Now then Odette, let’s go home.”
“But, Con,” cried Odette, all excited, “do you know the way?”
“No,” said Con. “But it’s time for Karen’s famous hot chocolate and it’s been calling to me for ages. I couldn’t hear it properly before because OOAO would talk, but if nobody says anything except for that hot chocolate, I think, Odette, I shall know where it’s coming from. Come on.”
They walked off together and for a long time Odette was careful to say nothing, but then she made an oooo-noise because she thought she knew where she was, but didn’t want to say in case they weren’t, and then they were.
“There you are,” said Matey. Come and have your hot chocolate and then a nice hot bath. “Emmerence has gone out to look for you, she assures me that Emmerence’s never get lost no matter what the weather.”

All the time that Con and Odette were having their hot chocolate and baths, Emmerence was tearing round the Alp calling for OOAO. And at last a very Small and Sorry OOAO heard her. And the Small and Sorry OOAO rushed through the mist at the noise, and it suddenly turned into Emmerence; a Friendly Emmerence, a Grand Emmerence, a Large and Helpful Emmerence, an Emmerence who bounced, if she bounced at all, in just the beautiful way an Emmerence ought to bounce.
“Oh, Emmerence, I am glad to see you,” cried OOAO.

 

#2:  Author: patmac, Location: Yorkshire England PostPosted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 6:34 pm

Love it!

 

#3:  Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster PostPosted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 6:48 pm

Fabulous!

 

#4:  Author: Ally, Location: Jack Maynard's Dressing Room!! PostPosted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 7:07 pm

Tigger Thank you Santa, you are very shiny indeed!!! Tigger

 

#5:  Author: Carolyn P, Location: Lancaster, England PostPosted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 7:23 pm

Tigger That is absolutly fantastic!!! Tigger

Thank you Santa. Razz Laughing Very Happy Red Blob Jumping Jumping Mexican Wave drummer

 

#6:  Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 7:25 pm

Methinks Santa is a Winnie the Pooh fan!!!
Very very clever!

 

#7:  Author: Lesley, Location: Rochester, Kent PostPosted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 7:46 pm

Excellent. Thanks Santa.

 

#8:  Author: Helen P, Location: Cheshire PostPosted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 8:50 pm

Wonderful!!!

Thankyou, clever Santa!

 

#9:  Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 11:09 pm

That's gorgeous! Still, I'm sure OOAOs don't go on being Sad either...

 

#10:  Author: Susan, Location: Carlisle PostPosted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 12:10 am

What a wonderful story Santa, very clever.

 

#11:  Author: Lyanne, Location: Ipswich, England PostPosted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 8:35 am

If you read The Tao of Pooh , it will show you why being Rabbit is not such a good thing Smile (umm, can't remember who it's by)
Now, how can we look at matey again without thinking of kanga?

 

#12:  Author: Nell, Location: London, England PostPosted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 10:09 am

Very clever! Laughing

 

#13:  Author: Rachael,  PostPosted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 10:34 am

Wonderful crossover, Santa - thank you!! Very Happy

 

#14:  Author: JackieJ, Location: Kingston upon Hull PostPosted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 1:52 pm

Oh, I used to watch that one every year at Christmas time, until we lost the video, anyway *sigh*

Thank you Santa from bringing back the memories.

JackieJ

 

#15:  Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 5:02 pm

Wonderful, I love Pooh stories.

 

#16:  Author: Chelsea, Location: Your Imagination PostPosted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 6:09 pm

That was very, very good.

When I was in New York this weekend, I went to the Public Library (the Children's branch) where they have Christopher Robin's toys on display - the original ones that the character were from. Piglet is really, a very small animal!

 

#17:  Author: Emma A, Location: Peterborough PostPosted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 6:34 pm

Oh - lovely!

 

#18:  Author: Ann, Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, England PostPosted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 8:07 pm

Absolutely inspired!

*points out to Gem that WtP crossovers are possible!*

 

#19:  Author: Dawn, Location: Leeds, West Yorks PostPosted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 8:09 pm

I've played pooh sticks off the proper pooh sticks bridge Very Happy

 

#20:  Author: Kathy_S, Location: midwestern US PostPosted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 7:02 am

Tigger Tigger Tigger
Thank you, Santa!

ROFL ML as Rabbit Laughing

 

#21:  Author: Rosie, Location: Huntingdonshire/Bangor PostPosted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 11:59 am

Dawn wrote:
I've played pooh sticks off the proper pooh sticks bridge Very Happy


Hehehe! Me and Xanthe and Chloe (aka Christopher Robin, Piglet and Tigger) have played Pooh Sticks with BROWNIES!!

And Santa, that was a LOVELY drabble!

 

#22:  Author: Xanthe, Location: London/Cambridge PostPosted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 12:05 pm

Rosie wrote:
Hehehe! Me and Xanthe and Chloe (aka Christopher Robin, Piglet and Tigger) have played Pooh Sticks with BROWNIES!


I feel I should point out that no Brownies were harmed in the above activity...

And I agree about it being an IMMENSELY shiny drabble Very Happy

 

#23:  Author: Gem, Location: Saltash, Cornwall (holidays), Aberystwyth (termtime from September) PostPosted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 1:41 pm

Rosie wrote:
Dawn wrote:
I've played pooh sticks off the proper pooh sticks bridge Very Happy


Hehehe! Me and Xanthe and Chloe (aka Christopher Robin, Piglet and Tigger) have played Pooh Sticks with BROWNIES!!



Shocked

 

#24:  Author: Carolyn P, Location: Lancaster, England PostPosted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 1:43 pm

Did the Brownies float all the way under the bridge then?

 

#25:  Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!! PostPosted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 10:13 pm

Oh dear! I now have THE most disturbing mental images!!!!! Shocked Shocked

 

#26:  Author: Xanthe, Location: London/Cambridge PostPosted: Sun Dec 26, 2004 6:15 pm

We had a wide game on Pack Holiday, all based around Winnie-the-Pooh, as that was the theme for the 5 days of it...

The last bit of the wide game was a waterslide made from plastic sheeting covered in washing up liquid and water... the Brownies loved it... and I seem to recall the Young Leaders were fairly keen on it as well...

 

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