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Lip Gloss Jul 2018 9:45pm, 9 Jul 2018 30,259 posts	0 Lip Gloss We also played kerbie, the street wasn't so busy with cars then. We had a great street - a new street built and everyone moved in at the same time so loads of kids. We used to hold our own Olympic games and our own Wimbledon - our mums and dads would help too. Never see that these days
alpenrose Jul 2018 9:51pm, 9 Jul 2018 34,331 posts	0 alpenrose We didn't have a nanny state in those days, scrumping apples (I didn't do that), climbing trees, learning right from wrong, a clip round the ear from Mr Plod if warranted (I didn't have one of those either)...........
Cyclops Jul 2018 9:52pm, 9 Jul 2018 3,505 posts	0 Cyclops Mine was more climbing lampposts and sitting on the roof of bus stops...
LazyDaisy Jul 2018 9:58pm, 9 Jul 2018 23,129 posts	0 LazyDaisy All of these memories are very familiar to me too. I suppose it's because of traffic, and organised after school activities, and fear of 'stranger danger', that children seem never to play out in the street - even in quiet culs-de-sac - these days? It's rather sad. We lived in a loop of houses built around a factory when industry was encouraged to relocate to South Wales with brand new factories, and we played out in the street despite lorries going to and fro and buses arriving at 5pm every evening to take the workers home. Amazingy we learned to get out of their way and no-one got squashed.
Velociraptor Jul 2018 10:21pm, 9 Jul 2018 38,586 posts	0 Velociraptor The kids play out in our cul-de-sac
Columba Jul 2018 10:23pm, 9 Jul 2018 15,912 posts	0 Columba Skipping rhyme (long rope, 2 girls turning it, everyone else jumping together): All in together girls, never mind the weather girls, when I say your birthday please run out. January, February.... etc , with everyone running out as their birth month is named.
LazyDaisy Jul 2018 10:23pm, 9 Jul 2018 23,131 posts	0 LazyDaisy I'm really pleased to hear that V'rap
Cyclops Jul 2018 10:25pm, 9 Jul 2018 3,506 posts	0 Cyclops I played that, Columba.
Sharkie Jul 2018 10:26pm, 9 Jul 2018 13,484 posts	0 Sharkie First he took me to America Then he took me to Dundee - aye-ee, aye-ee, Then he ran away and left me With three born babies on my knee -aye-ee, aye-ee. Social comment, no less, in our late 1950s Manchester rhyming game
Columba Jul 2018 10:27pm, 9 Jul 2018 15,913 posts	0 Columba Up the Mississippi, if you miss a link you're out. And that, Cyclops?