A Strange Sound Was Heard...................

[BamberLamb]

...........yesterday on our street - children playing out! Honest! We've not had children playing out on our street for years. I think they were visiting someone as I didn't recognize them. At one time it was said that children should be seen and not heard. That happens a lot now due to i-pads, i-phones etc. Now people want them outside making a noise!

[pastafreak]

There are often children playing out by me. My neighbourhood is a mix of houses and flats...private and council. More so in warmer weather...but they are out there!

[mallyh]

i love to hear children playing and using their imagination instead of been stuck in front of computers

[bednobs]

dunno what country youre in but currently unless they are in a family or bubble, its against guidelines :)

[pastafreak]

How are children playing in a park monitored? Or in a back garden?

[bednobs]

i suppose people could be nosy busybodies and call the police?
my daughter's headmaster never misses the opportunity to remind us not to let the kids meet up outside of school. In my town, the police occasionally comb the park in the evnings to break up groups of children

[Zacs-Master]

Just been for a walk with the dog and coming back thru the village there were mums and kids everywhere. One fell over and started crying and two more were arguing over whose go it was on the scooter LOL.

[pastafreak]

I've not seen the police at all...except possibly the first week of this lockdown.
I wonder if all headmasters/mistresses are like yours, bednobs?

[Hopkirk]

Bamber, they were having the wheels off your car.

[Prudie]

When I read the post title I thought this was gong to be about the mysterious but very loud explosive rumbling felt over Dorset and other areas of the South West yesterday afternoon. It stopped me in my tracks. Latest suggestion is it was some kind of meteor passing over.

[calmck]

We are in lockdown but the kids can meet up outside. On weekends they either walk to their cousins house or cousins walk here 15 mins each way across fields. We are allowed to meet up outside for exercise

[bednobs]

we are too cal, but currently only 2 people

[jourdain2]

We're not very far from the local primary school - it has been wonderful to hear the children playing-out at breaks and lunchtime. Made us feel so much better.

[carolegif]

I love to hear children playing. Mainly older people on our Close, but there are two now, and I love to hear them. We spent most of our childhood out of doors, and nobody complained of the noise.

[emmie]

i heard some earlier, they were in a group with a teacher/parents perhaps, giggly and full of life..

[Barsel]

Prudie.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9384121/Mystery-sonic-boom-rocks-hundreds-homes-sets-car-alarms-Devon-Somerset-Dorset.html

[Old_Geezer]

I doubt everyone wants them making a noise. In my day kids didn't have parents that let them go around screaming, and excusing it by thinking, "It's what kids do". It's what kids who have inadequate parents do. They can go play nicely out somewhere if they behave.

[Patsy33]

I thought the same Prudie :-)..