P


laying cricket with no adults to help kids with


the rules of the game?


W


hen being sent to the head teacher's office


was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?


Stuff from the shop came without safety lids or hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?


And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savour the slower pace, and share it with the children of today.


Basically, we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat. As well as summers filled with bike rides, cricket matches, Hula Hoops, football and visits to the pool, and eating sherbet powder with sugar. Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, 'Yeah, I remem- ber that'?


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