Ah ~ diddums ~ children. Sweet ickle kiddy-winkies. Oh dere-dere den...

Mind you, when I was 10 I knew it would be ever·so ever·so naughty to bash a little boy to death & throw his body on to a railway line for the train to mash up.

Didn't you?

But then, as MacNeice said of the Ancient World and I always think of my early days -

"It was all so unimaginably different
And all so long ago"

~M~