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Elastics in a playing field or school playground, could play for hours with friends and even at home, hooking the elastic to a chair each end!!

we used to play street game, the whole lot of us would have water fights in summer, and whats the time mr wolf in the winter to keep warm

I remember my childhood was just like this

Building obstacle course in the garden.

Making a den in the field opposite our street, riding Mum's bike around the village and exploring the local woods and fields. Children don't have that freedom these days.

I used to love meeting all our friends and neighbours over the local park to play rounders, used to be such fun ... although one time I did break my nose!!

Making mud pies and laying them out to dry if we had visitors.

Making mud pies with cutlery I'd smuggled out of the kitchen to use as tools.
Building dens and creating the 'spy eye' club with my friends.
Constructing ( on reflection lethal) ramps to ride over on our bikes, usually with an old plank and bricks.
Being outside all day until dark.

I used to love having picnics with a friend in those halcyon days when it was safe for children to be out by themselves and the sun was always shining. My mother would give us hard boiled eggs and jam sandwiches, and we thought we had a banquet.

Riding my little pink bike with lovely fat tyres for hours and hours!!

I loved going out on my bike. We all used to meet up together and go on short and long bike rides.

Playing three balls against the wall. Could do it for hours.

I loved to make sandcastles on the beach!

Playing in fields near our house, used to pile up hay climb trees and jump into hay, also hide a seek there was a favourite , happy times.

Was very into Newts and Rabbits! Used to collect the newts from a nearby park and made them great little homes in biscuit tins! Poor things. Loved rabbits too and we had some at the bottom of the garden. Could never understand why they regularly disappeared until I was much older and my grandmother let slip we were having rabbit for Sunday Lunch! Could never look the rabbits in the eyes again!

Making dens out of blankets, pegs, rope in my Grandma's garden with my brother and our friends Jojo and Catherine and having Shepherd's Pie and runner beans for lunch in our tent

i LOVED SKIPPING AND GOING ON THE CLIMBING FRAME.

We lived near the beach and enjoyed the seemingly endless summer days we spent there but my favourite days were the wet and windy ones when we still went to the beach. We would dig a big hole, surround it by deckchairs turned on their sides, 2 across the top for a roof and we would sit huddled up inside our make shift den watching the wild and windy sea while we at our jam sandwiches and took turns sipping from a large bottle of orange squash!

simple pleasures :-).

Searching for washed up treasure on the beach then pretending that it led to an adventure.

Must have been making dens with old boxes and anything more we could find in the garden

Going for a picnic with homemade bread rolls filled with peanut butter

Climbing trees! Always trying to get higher than my sister before our mum stopped us!

Pretending I was playing at Wimbledom....knocking an old tennis ball against the house wall ( then being told to pipe down by my dad)

Going to the cinema on Saturday mornings and buying ice cream and sweets to enjoy whilst watching the amazing films and Pathe News!

I loved going to visit my grandparents as a child, in London ! We would go and see the sights and it was so exciting to a girl who lived in a country village !