Blimey! That took me back,
Back to those days of childhood
Where we would mark the pavement,
The pavement by the side of the house.
One ,
Then two and Three,
Four,
Then five and six,
Seven,
Eight and nine,
Then ten.
Now there it was
Across the road,
A mum and her boy
Hopping and skipping
From number to number.
So much fun they were having
From a game so very old,
And all it needed
Was a piece of chalk
And a small stone.
Hopscotch was still alive,
And my childhood had returned,
Returned in my mind.
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- Comment from author about the poem: My neighbour across the road was playing hopscotch with her young son on the path outside her house and it took me back to my childhood in the last century.
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Yes, so much more fun than playstation/nintendo and any kid passing by could join in. Boys would stop by and enjoy the sight of girls with their skirts tucked into their knickers playing hopscotch.
Did u play 'snobs' too? That's the game where you have five cubes which you toss up into the air a foot or so and catch them on the back of your hand with fingers splayed... that was fun, though not so energetic as hopscotch. I wonder how those two got their names?
Yes not a 'phone or tablet in sight. And yes anybody could join us - great times sadly missed nowadays.
I certainly played the game you call 'snobs' but it was not called that we called it 'fivestones' - being from Kent maybe we were the snobs you refer to.
Having just looked up the games they both have references in Greek and Roman times - I may be old but not that old.
Andy
Yes - us two (and others) remember it well. We recall games from 11th Century too (1066). I was only playing darts when I said to Harold 'Look up, Sire'.
Well your dart missed - AGAIN!.
Andy
Aww, yes, I was only playing darts - that's my excuse!
And I remember it too - light years ago. Thanks for the write.
So many years ago in those innocent times.
Andy
Good Morning Uncle Andy ~ Love Cavalleria Rusticana ~ just enjoying it *Home Alone* with my Morning Coffee. I am old enough (36) to remember the final decads of the 20th C. We had a *hopscotch* painted in the Primary School Playground and we all played *Ollies* with glass marbles (prized parrots etc) and *Jinx* with bottle tops etc etc. Technology has a lot to answer for. Angela & I love JIGSAWS but kids groan now if you give them one for a Present. At our Conference Centre @ Sizewell Hall in Suffolk we always have a 1000 piece *Jiggy* on the go and as many as 20 poeple often join in (spasmodically) in a W/E Retreat. TV & radio is verboten ! My initial task on the Jiggy is to complete all the edges and leave the middle for the Hoi-Poloi ! Thanks for sharing a *memory lane* ! Please check *The Solar System*
Thanks BRIAN 🧡🤍💙
The jigsaws that I do are a bit more complicated as you cannot find all the correct straight edges as some are in the middle of the puzzle.
Yes I remember hopscotch so well Andy - - my friends seemed so good at it and always won - - good fun though - - loved the number you chose today.
Thank you Fay, much appreciated as always.
Andy
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