I've just read this on the BBC website and found it highly amusing. My DTS are only 3yo so it does not apply to me but it made me think about what we did over the summer holidays.
My DBs and I would play tip and run cricket with our neighbours on the large waste ground behind our house. I would also borrow books from the library and read voraciously. My DBs and I would also watch re-runs of Laurel and Hardy, Captain Scarlett, Thunderbirds etc on TV. As we were very poor we never went on holidays but our parents would treat us to days out to the park (about two or three times so we really looked forward to it) and we went on two coach trips to the seaside during our whole childhood.
Sometimes the schools would run play schemes so we use to go to those when we were older(primary years only).
Most of the time, we just got on with occupying ourselves and because it was all we knew, we did not feel deprived.
Now that we are older, we remember those days with fondness because they taught us how to be self-sufficient and to use our imaginations. Of course there were boring periods but that is part of life - even now I get bored at work and at home .
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What are your memories of school holidays?
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speedymama · 11/07/2007 08:40
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