Watching the children from the local Adventure Centre wandering the beach sometimes makes me very nostalgic for carefree childhood days.
I would blithely head out of the door on a sunny morning with 'Be back for lunch at one o'clock' the only warning, clean clothes provided, meals laid on, few decisions other than who I would play with that day - it was often Janette, we regularly laughed ourselves silly together (at what I don't remember). The street, the park, the clay works - riding on the 'puggy' the little train that took the clay the short distance to the brickworks...we had a lot of freedom as children.
Did you?