Playing barefoot in the veld, building mud houses on hands and knees running our cars (metal) around our homemade towns. Shooting bottles with a kettie (slingshot) everything outdoors.

There were no boundaries for the imagination, walk or cycle to school about 5 km away. Sport most afternoons after school, always actively participating or supporting in team sports.

Holidays on trains, the absolute best! Now I do feel the simpler life is missed in many ways.

Health wise, we knew what we put into our mouths was not going to kill us or make us ill. Shelling peas on Saturday for Sunday lunch 4 children a heap of peas being podded out while we either had to sing or whistle! Why you may ask, it was to stop us sneaking a lovely fresh pea into our mouths, you were there to do a chore not devour the Sunday meal ahead of time.

No TV only a radio till around 16 years of age, no telephone before around 14 years, so yes it was trust and a great bit of parenting on our parents side, trusting chores were completed, of which we each had one.

Move on we must, the new generation will one day sit and ponder their years growing up, wonder what that will sound like.