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28/3/2014

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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?

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elaine link
28/3/2014 05:31:11 pm

Yes thanks Freda I am feeling a little perkier I think I was just feeling a little run down after that heavy cold - I found myself a tonic at the chemist, liquid vitamins - they seem to be doing the trick. As for childhood, oh yes, lots of freedom and adventure round every corner - life seemed easier then.

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Freda
29/3/2014 11:06:12 am

A happy childhood is such a treasure.

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cath
29/3/2014 03:00:32 am

Our house the last of the street, a sandpath (or do you say dirtpath?), an occasional farm, ditches to jump over (and sometimes an unplanned jump in), flowers that would have withered before getting home, but accepted gratefully by my mother anyway, further away the woods and fens, all at walking distance. A lot of free space, room to move, freedom.

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Freda
29/3/2014 11:07:44 am

Space, time to oneself, allowed just to be....wonderful.

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Swissrose link
29/3/2014 03:47:07 am

LOL yes, I just wrote all about this… ;)

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Freda
29/3/2014 11:08:52 am

I loved this post Swissrose - it was as if you were describing my childhood too. Thanks for that!

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Lucille
29/3/2014 09:32:38 pm

Yes more than I realised at the time and more than I think I was able to give my own children sadly. Have you read Alex Monroe's book about his childhood and resultant adult life? Two Turtle Doves.

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Freda
30/3/2014 06:34:02 pm

I've read a review on www.cornflowerbooks.co.uk and was intruiged....must try it. Thanks Lucille.

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