| Re: when i was a child many moons ago.
I remember -
Winter walks in the snow, coming home down the fields just as the light was failing and our feet were turning to blocks of ice, lovely coal fire when we got in and toast and dripping for tea.
There used to be smallholdings in the village, and every day we would hear the pigs and chickens.
No street lights, so we had really dark skies with loads of stars.
At school, every winter when it snowed the boys would try to build an igloo in the playground and the headmaster would come out and help them with it. I don't think they ever got the roof to stay up though!
Waking up to find ice flowers on the windows.
Our school playground was overlooked by three huge beech trees in the adjoining Abbey grounds, and a favourite playtime game in autumn was seeing how many leaves we could catch as they were blown off.
There were two small breweries about a mile away, and the smell of the hops on brewing days would spread for miles.
Walking and cycling for miles around the country lanes, fishing for tiddlers in the stream, trying to build a raft.
No tinned stuff at the Harvest Festival, only fresh produce or homemade jams.  |