This could have been me. I started playing the violin when I was 9. I also had a pogo stick, albeit not one of the shiny rubber- and plastic-coated ones that are now in vogue but a creaky all-metal ...

After bouncing on her pogo stick for nearly two hours in early October, Lilli Chvatal ended up with two very sore feet and new bragging rights – the record for most consecutive jumps on a pogo stick ...