We used to call it Postmans knock. And I remember playing it in a block of flats. Great... we'd start at the top floor... do the one nearest the stairs... run down one flight and hide in the corner under the stairs... then do the next floor and so on.

If it wasn't that, then we would be in the Rhododendron forest running around being wild... climbing the pine trees... and chasing some wild ponies...

If it wasn't that... then we'd get in the big round metal bins about 6ft tall, that had wheels on them and free wheel down the hill.

Also, british bull dogs - I broke my ankle playing this game...

Tag, Stuck in the mud, some daft game with a name similar to galloping gut rot... Lazzies - lots of elastic bands tied together to skip in and out of...

Oh... the THE BEST GAME.... Star Wars... I always got to be princess Layah (or however you spell her name)

Also, in another forest, we were explorers of the amazon, and spent hours disturbing big red ants nests... teasing other wildlife, and finding puff balls to stamp on.

Hide and seek, cricket, rounders, footie, riding on our bikes in a big gang... and knocking a load of plastic soldiers over with a football to score points.

Running away from my friends deerhound/irish wolf hound thing that used to floor me everytime it came near me.

And Kerbie... hitting the kerb with a football from the other side of the street.

oh, and running round a ruined old mansion pretending we owned it.

Wow them were the days... thanks for making me remember

And yes I was a bit of a tomboy, when I was younger.. Had to be really, there were not many girls around where I lived...

Oh... one more....

Run across the field before the bull gets you...

oh... dreamy dreamy days

Ella