h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

If I said I spent the morning skipping and hiding in bushes, would it make me sound weird?

It's ok, though, there was nothing of an illegal or nefarious nature going on. It was all legal, above-board, and done for a good reason (or a reason, anyway). Namely, I was learning how to do it so that I could in turn teach other people how to do it.

Which seems to me to be creating a self-perpetuating cycle of people hiding in hedges, but who am I to argue? The world works in mysterious ways...

I thought for a moment you had gone bramble picking

I've discovered that the human animal ought not eat blackberries to excess...

Naw, this was community group training stuff. A lot of it bizarre, but a lot fun and useful as well. The afternoon was a bit less slapstick.

Skipping with a rope, or hopscotch-style skipping?

The rope kind. I last did it in boxing practice in 1989. Oddly enough I'm better at it now than I was then...