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We lived in Bury St Edmunds and I loved childhood trips to the Abbey Gardens. There was a small stream running through it and we would use a net to catch toddlers in a glass jar. Even back then we would return them to the water before we left!

Sorry, I meant tiddlers, not toddlers, I am not the child catcher from chitty chitty bang bang!

Blackberry picking & coming home with stains all over me!

Blackberry picking then washing them and helping to make a black berry crumble. Yum

Playing football with my brothers.

Playing with my rabbit Monty in the garden. I still had him when I got married at 21 !!! Got him when I was 12.

catching tadpoles to go into the pond in my back garden

going for walks and having a picnic with bottle of pop and am sandwiches

I used to love making things out of cardboard boxes for my little sister to play in, like boats, cars and spaceships.

Fishing for tadpoles in ponds with jars on string with my friend Linda - the poor things - but we did put them back afterwards!

sitting on a gate talking to the horses in the field and sometimes bringing them 'treats' of grass clippings from home.
Making dens
climbing trees

Climbing trees and often falling out of them. Could explain a lot!

Throwing two balls against a wall.

Making Daisy Chains and believing that you could tell if someone liked butter by holding a buttercup flower under their chin.

I enjoyed playing on my bike in the local park

Fruit picking with my grandad

Helping my grandfather on his allotment. Really loved this, what happy memories.

The Brownies and girl guides were such great fun, esp the camping.

Buying a new whip and top with a packet of new chalks.Played for hours.

I would be gone for hours fishing for sticklebacks and newts in my local river with a bucket and a home made net. I would sometimes bring the newts home and put them in my fishtank outside so they would lay their eggs on the pondweed. Once the baby newts were grown I'd let them go back to the river.

Family bike rides were always my favourite. We always used to do the same loop; through the school grounds, around the river, through the park (with a quick stop for a shot on the swings!) and home again. Happy memories

Loved nothing better than my scooter.

Playing in my Nan & Grandad's garden with my sister with their deckchairs we got from their shed! We took out old torches and bits and bobs we could play with and turned the deckchairs into anything we could think of! Well, we thought it was fun at the time! We were about 5 & 6! I even miss avoiding the lavender bush that was outside their front door because of all the bees! Such uncomplicated times!

Jumping and playing in a river with my 3 brothers. The river was quite wide, fairly deep, and crystal clear. We had an absolute ball. Same river flooded all our land when we had a storm. Went back there recently for a trip down memory lane and it was all so overgrown you couldn't even see the river. So sad. Glad I've got my memories

I had a swing in the garden and I used to lie back and look behind me and up at the sky as I went back and forward. I loved it.