tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2632066603779000512.post1559303257847623358..comments2023-08-16T00:25:03.236-07:00Comments on have me pompeii your town: Types of people in the past.Chris Almondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13107791774450498377noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2632066603779000512.post-81192430550314790482010-03-24T03:26:19.984-07:002010-03-24T03:26:19.984-07:00suppose it is the fate of every generation to look...suppose it is the fate of every generation to look back upon the years of its youth as a Golden Age of normality, against which earlier or later epochs are to be judged. You are starting early, Chris! <br /><br />Looking back to my own childhood, the nerdish hobbies tended to be somewhat split amongst the sexes. For men and boys, fretwork and marquetry were popular. Later, it was model aircraft, galleons and the like, usually from kits: wood gave way to plastic when the aim was to produce a decorative model. But if you were flying the plane, you’d build it from balsa-wood and tissue-paper tightened with a coat of dope. You could power it with rubber band or a tiny diesel engine – or it might be flown as a glider. For girls and women it was knitting, crochet, cross-stitch, tapestry, embroidery – those kinds of things. More social activities, at home or in pubs, would be cribbage (a card game), darts, dominoes, shove ha’penny, skittles (also known as ninepins). Any of these would be spiced up with small bets.<br /><br />For children there would be plenty of games played in street or playground. Or you could just take the dog out. There were no rules then about cleaning up after a dog. After the War, many towns had dangerous bomb sites where it was fun to play all kinds of war games. With the help of a parent, children would build a go-cart from wooden boxes, scavenged timber and old pram wheels. You’d have a bridle to steer them by shifting the front wheels and you could race them downhill. <br /><br />I was definitely the introverted imaginative type. Indoors, I would read voraciously, and design various things as presents for Christmas and birthdays – or make cards for same, using techniques taught in art-class. Outdoors, with my same-age cousin or alone, I would invent my own version of free-running (parcours) which sometimes involved a certain amount of trespassing on private property. When challenged, we would identify the adult concerned as a deadly enemy, creating an evil persona and back-story for him or her.<br /><br />These leisure activities seem to have been far more healthy, diverse and sometimes more useful than those practised today.Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18297306807695767580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2632066603779000512.post-32859364297206581782010-03-23T19:58:11.477-07:002010-03-23T19:58:11.477-07:00Approvingly your article helped me very much in my...Approvingly your article helped me very much in my college assignment. Hats afar to you enter, wish look forward in behalf of more interrelated articles without delay as its one of my choice topic to read.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com