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long jump, I was quite good at it. And we used to go tracking in the Guides down to Beeleigh Abbey, over fields without an ADULT! Heaven forbid, there were no health and safety rules then! But such fun. How H&S has killed off fun.

Taking my (toy) dog called Mick for walks. I used to tie him to the drainpipe whenever I needed to go indoors for a drink or a bathroom stop. He was absolutely real to me so I couldn’t risk him running off while I was in the house.

Oooh my favourite outside activity as a young child was looking for fairies... I was so naive and read lots of Enid Blyton and longed to find a fairy door in a tree lol

Making rose “perfume” by mashing rose petals in water and then putting it into bottles. It turned to sludge within a couple of days! Lol

Playing with the toy craze Klackers I think they were called. Most girls had them at school they were balls on long pieces of string that you clacked together and some people could do great tricks with them. Hours of fun in the playground, till they got banned

We had lots of trees at the back of our house which were ideal for climbing, building dens, pretending the lower branches were horses and occasionally persuading our dad to put up a swing.

Making rose perfume in the rose bushes outside our house

Oh what else but roller skating with my friends.

The skates had to be Jacko Skates. One size fitted all.

The skates came in two parts with a nut in the middle... to make them larger, you unscrewed the nut with the little key they gave you, and adjusted the two parts to fit.

I seem to think they were 10/6d ... so we had one pair between the lot of us !

I love rolling skating... and at 68 still do it whenever I can !

I used to search through and excavate my dad's fruit and veg patch as it had lots of old pottery and hidden gems!

feeding horses over the gate into their field, and chatting to them

As a child there was nothing better that spending time with my Dad exploring the caves at the seaside near where I lived or taking to the hills and watching the birds.

Lying in the sunshine in a flower meadow, daydreaming.

Making perfume from the rose petals in jam jars of water. Also building dens in the woods.

Picking strawberries with my nan, from her strawberry patch.

Playing hide and seek in the park close-by which was mostly overgrown and pretty wild. Also, hiding something and then having fun seeing how quickly someone would find it by the Hot ,Warm, Cold System.

Riding my bike, out for most of the day.

When I was about 9-10 a group of boys and girls would take a picnic on our bikes down to what we called the valley we would have a game of rounders and then sit and have our picnic the girls chaating about boys and the boys chatting about football or rugby happy innocent times

Play in the garden...skipping, marbles, elastic band and dressing up

i always loved help frogs and toads across busy roads to save their life's

Going to the park with my brother and riding the kiddy bikes they had there

Spending time in the park with my mum and dad seeing the world in my eyes thinking how beautiful an wonderful

Climbing trees

roller skating around my local area with my friends.

Climbing trees!

My favourite outdoor activity when I was little was Chinese skipping.l loved it and used to play it for hours.