Oh, pangs of loss. Things like the big home-knitted jumpers, the scuffed toecaps of the shoes and the children using everyday objects to engage in unabashed fantasy.
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Playing Out (in Edinburgh?)
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Posted 4 years ago #
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The giant snowball one is fantastic. Plus the kids & dog guddling in the drain.
Posted 4 years ago # -
(Not Edinburgh)
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She said: “The council told me they were breaking the law with their games because they were obstructing the highway. They always move out of the way for cars and they are never out after dark.”
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As thousands of new homes spring up across the UK, anti-child bias has been found on developments with families left frightened they would be evicted for letting children play in communal areas. Alice Ferguson, co-founder of the campaign group Playing Out, said: “There is a serious crisis in children’s physical and mental health in this country, yet some people still want to stop children having the time and space to play outside together. We need to accept that children live in communities and have a right to be seen and heard. A bit of noise from children playing outside is a small price to pay for a happier, healthier generation.”
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Posted 1 year ago # -
So many aspects of this story just made me so sad to read them
Posted 1 year ago # -
Was visiting friends in Morningside on Sunday afternoon. A few sections of Craiglea Drive have been closed off for resurfacing with the cars relocated. It was wonderful to see the car-free sections recolonised by children: lads playing football with traffic cones borrowed to use as goals; girls out with hockey sticks (not suggesting that girls do not play football). It was rather like seeing a modern recreation of a photograph from the 1930s. Half a dozen childrens’ bikes were sitting out on the road presumably used for cycling around by the same children. Shame it will end when the work is done.
Posted 2 months ago # -
@DuddingstonDomestique - that's my neck of the woods, and I noticed exactly the same yesterday. The road was closed, devoid of cars, with a lovely smooth surface, and the kids were bombing around it on their bikes. It was simultaneously lovely and depressing.
Posted 2 months ago # -
It was also lovely, particularly for the school run, to have no through traffic on Craiglea Drive for three weeks.
Posted 2 months ago #
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