Re: OT - Watch with Mother, Andy Pandy and Looby Lou singing Good-Bye

BrritSki wrote:
LFS wrote:
the Omrud wrote:
LFS wrote:
the Omrud wrote:
Gumrat wrote:
Marjorie wrote:
...which reminds me that at 7 I used to walk home from my piano lesson on my own, at least half a mile's walk that took me across a main road and through a park.

I walked to school and back on my own from the age of about five, and I sometimes cycled to school on my own from the age of seven. I suppose it was about three-quarters of a mile away. I also went to Cubs on my own.

I walked to and from school (three-quarters of a mile, I just checked on Multimap) unescorted from the age of five, as did all my classmates. At eleven, I travelled across a fair chunk of N.W. London to School, by bus, tube and a walk through a small park which was, now I think about it, quite isolated. My parents' only worry was that I would get lost as I had (and still have) little sense of direction.

Our children walked to school and back alone from the age of nine when they transferred to middle school, about half a mile from home but through a rather nasty underpass which worried me a bit.

How many cars on the roads then, though? And how many scary local yokels in the parks? :-)

Cars, very few. Scary yokels - my hunch is that there were no fewer and no more than there are now.

I share your hunch.

There's no such thing as a free hunch, you know.


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