Stork's Nest

Mother gave us a pick-up-sticks type of game for Xmas, Stork's Nest

http://www.jesters.com/acatalog/childrens_boxed_games.html

which is great fun and pleasantly easy to explain - "don't knock the sticks over, but make it so that everyone else does". After the jig-saw at Christmas, this is a nice antidote.

The photo is another from Foutains Abbey