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/// I feel so sorry for the many children of today who are so 'bored' with the lack of leisure opportunities and devices at their disposal that they have to resort to causing ASB, vandalism and assault to get their kicks. ///
/// If only some of them really knew what it was like growing up in the 20's/30's/40's. ///
Quite so agchristie, quite so.
But "bored' with the lack of leisure opportunities and devices at their disposal"?????????
The children of the 20's/30's/40's, had almost zero leisure amenities, what ones they had they sought them out themselves.
The back streets the alleys the open fields the woods, all places of adventure.
To say nothing of the seasonal sports, whip and top and marbles at Easter, cricket, kite flying and trolleys in summer and football and sledging in winter, they were the days.
All these when ironically the standard piece of equipment for every lad was a very sharp sheath knife attached firmly on one's trousers belt, with never a thought of inflicting harm on another, only on a stout piece of wood.