Playtime

Coming down to Penkridge on Wednesday we passed an off-side site where someone has created the most amazing play area.



There's a climbing frame, a tree house, an engine, a play-hut and so on. Strangely, we've never actually seen any children playing on it. This time, however, NB Tom Bombadil was moored alongside.



Now that is highly appropriate, as Tom is one of the really playful characters in Lord of the Rings. You can understand why he was left out of the film trilogy, but he sits alongside the Ents as something ancient, deep and different. And now, happily, he can be added to my list of Tolkien-themed boat names:

Arwen Evenstar
Aragorn
Bilbo Baggins
Brandywine
Earls of Rohan
Frodo’s Dream
Galadriel
Gandalf
Goldberry
Hobbit
Lord of the Rings
Lóthlórien
Many Meetings
Riddles in the Dark
Rivendell
Shadowfax
Silmaril
Smaug
Strider
The Arkenstone
There and Back Again
Thorin
Tom Bombadil