When I was little I would say before I was seven, I was always outside,whatever the weather – unless it was really awful. We lived in a flat with a very long back garden which the lady who live above us owned. She was elderly and was kind enough to let us have all the garden, so the front half was lawn and flower beds, the back half was vegetables. There was also a front garden which just had a little lawn and a rockery.
We played on the back lawn, and when nothing was growing in the vegetable part of the garden, we would play there too and I seem to remember always digging holes! I don’t remember why but our next door neighbour Richard who was the same age as me would always dig away too! Now that I think about it, I don’t think we were allowed to make bonfires on our own, but no doubt helped our dads with great glee when they made them to burn garden rubbish.
Innocent times!
Lois Elsden 