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going to our local zoo , and spending the day looking at all the animals

Playing "Pooh Sticks " on the way to school and on the way home

Playing French cricket with my three sisters

When I was a child I use to go to the local zoo, and spend the day going round and looking at the animals.

Playing hide and seek in our huge back garden. I usually hid high up in a tree where no one ever thought of looking.

Playing hide and seek in the 'valley gardens' and jumping off steps onto the beach with other kids. We were always out all day and only went home when we were called in. When we moved it was just playing skips and hop scotch on the pavement outside our houses.

We had an Air Raid shelter in our garden that was covered in sweet peas and my sister and I were allowed to turn it into a den. We painted it out and made a sign for the door. This was our Secret Seven hideout for our adventures with our friends. We loved it and had picnics and made up secret alphabets to send each other notes.

Making daisy chains in the Spring, skippy, 2/3 baller, top and whip

double skipping with a long rope

As the only girl my age in the village I grew up very much a Tom boy so it was climbing trees, playing hide and seek.

Collecting cookers and then using them to build dens for hedgehogs

Collecting acorns for the squirrels in the Autumn and putting them in there tree while walking to school.

(showing my age here !!) playing hopscotch and skipping with mums washing line over two sides od the road also playing jacks - all outside on the pavement !!

Walking up the river at the back of our street where I lived as a child. Swinging on a rope hung from a tree hanging over the water and dropping into the pond below. Following the river a couple of miles up to the woods. Happy days !

The freedom to be out all day on my bicycle with friends.

I loved to play marbles with my Father on our back garden and at school with my friends. Great memories.

Building dams and stopping the water flowing on the beach with sand mounds and rocks

With a bottle of Cream Soda and a sandwich my friend and I would go for long cycle rides in the country. Stopping in a field for lunch and then off we'd go again.

We used to play in the large cable "reels" in a store yard nearby. This must have been a health and safety nightmare but it was great fun making a den in these.

Riding our bikes to the woods for the day. We had cap guns and plenty of caps and played cowboys. The boys had the shoes with animal paw prints on the soles so we pretended to track the animals through the woods.

Playing outside was ALL the rage,
Back in them there olden days,
The neighbourhood kids would idle their time,
Jumping and skipping and singing in rhyme,
All that exercise and all that air,
Not a care in the world but a world of care,
As much as I love the world wide web,
I wish my kids were outside more instead,
I love the mud and climbing trees,
The chasing boys and scabby knees,
The knocking on doors of all my friends,
The heated arguments and making amends,
Everything out in the open air,
The best of the weather and the laissez faire,
The running outside once breakfast was through,
And sneaking back in with the streetlights and dew!

We loved making camps we had a little lagoon near us with little islands near the shore so we have a wooden gangplank and pretend we were pirates

Cycling down the biggest hill I could find and seeing how far I could go without pedalling.

Playing French cricket with my parents and siblings on the beach during our summer holidays.

Climbing trees in my aunties orchard