I well remember those games, Tania. I also remember being free to leave the house at 0800 and not return until 1700 and no-one being worried because there was always a pack of us and we’d be perfectly safe, unlike today.

Hi Tania, most of those games were played, we used to stand under the lampposts and mess around, chatting, acting daft……but never vandalising property…..my friends and I created a secret code language….suppose a little like the deaf signing…different digits would represent a letter…..also favourite was gong into the fields and lanes and creating deigns from flower petals……the girls that is…..that was a time when girls were girls and boys were men……or Davy Crockett…..

It’s a deceitful world we live in……all a conspiracy to make us think we are getting on in years…..well I know damn well I’m not……just have to get rid of a ruddy washing machine that shrinks my clothes then my denial is complete…

Hi Tania……..well its said the roles are reversed in later years…….the children take on the parents role and then have the chore of cleaning us up as it were, washing us, brushing our hair, toileting us, feeding us……..is this our way of getting our own back on them…lol…..actually I want to be long gone before I get to that state…….

Another goody!

Some things we all need to learn!

Hi Tania. In my last year at school I applied to join the Royal Navy,it was my dream from being a young lad. Eventually I passed all the exams and I was sent for a medical. I failed, I was deaf in one ear. After a few months I tried again.I failed. I was gutted. When I left school I worked in a supermarket stacking shelves.
Then my parents thought about emigrating to Australia,they asked me how I felt about it but I couldn’t care less. So after all the paperwork was sorted and the ‘medical s’ a date was set for us to sail to Perth on 29th January 1970.
Two months before our departure I tried again for the navy, I passed. I joined the Royal Navy 23rd February 1970 . My parents didn’t emigrate to Australia. While I was in the Royal Navy we visited Perth, Western Australia. I didn’t like it at all, I went to the place where we were meant to go, it was horrible.
Right choice or not!!

Amazing story of massive organisation at short notice.

Nice!

Sometimes just takes a nudge in the right direction……….but many do not have that connection with their parents, and not always because they cannot be bothered…….as we all know ,many children are abused and neglected and have not a scrap of compassion for their parents as they were never shown any themselves…..