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I grew up near the seaside so making sandcastles became a passion for me when I was young. The beaches at Llandudno were beautiful!

The best thing I remember is when me and my sister build dens and played in them cooking and foraging great fun I loved it x

Blueberry picking in the woods and coming home with a blue tongue and only a few in the basket

Going on bug hunts and finding wildflowers.

making dens

Playing “shop” over our low garden wall. I’d use stones for potatoes, pick weeds to use as veg, have newspaper to wrap these goods in! Id raid the kitchen and take eggs out of boxes etc, so I had quite a variety of things to sell. I’d have a queue of friends as customers. Great fun.

Walking my Jack Russell terrier on the common. We would walk for hours.

Catching tadpoles in the stream with a net and watching them grow into tiny frogs then setting them free.

I lived in a small cul-de-sac and all the children played together regardless of age or school. When not on bikes or roller skates, my favourite pastime was when we made up and acted out stories. It was all very Famous Five. We made dens, climbed trees, left coded messages for each other.....so exciting!

Cycling in the New Forest with my friends

Mine was walking and taking a picnic every Saturday to the bluebell woods. Sadly now they are gone and houses are built on there.

Roller skating around the local streets with my friend. We had our arms round each other and third to skate in unison. Great fun.

Sitting astride a fallen tree trunk in the woods behind the house and pretending it was a horse

Cycling. We would be gone forever. The worst that would happen would be our tea was cold, or burnt!

Spending every spare minute on the large sandy beach with my sister and our friends every day after school and through the school holidays and weekends, we spent more time on the beach than we did at home. Very happy memories from my childhood at Westgate-on-Sea in Kent.

My favourite outdoor activity when I was a child may seem a little odd to some, but I used to take myself off into the fields alone and scream my head off.

The fields where I used to play now form a section of the M56.

Out all day roaming the woods, building dens, bows and arrows. All this with my best friend Jimmy. The time flew by and only ended when we got too hungry.

Paddling in streams!

Playing hopscotch and elastic skipping with my sisters.

Going to the lido with a packed lunch and swimming all day, but boy was the water freezing first thing in the morning!

Making 'wigs' out of swimming hats and wool!!! I wanted really long hair LOL

Loads of us playing rounders in a local carpark

Exploring the woods by our house, making dens, climbing trees, and playing in the stream.

on the beach building sandcastles/sculptures, rock pooling and looking for shells or going for walk on mountain/woods with nan learning about nature/history/plants, picking wild herbs, rose hips, elderberry flowers or berries, blackberries, wild strawberries, winberrys.

Getting up early and going off exploring on our bikes .. a picnic then would be water and a jam sandwich lol..
as long as we were back before dark ! .... how times have changed .....