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/// and for a long while for many it was make and mend do. ///
And people were happier then than they are today.
Take the Children, with a few different colours of crepe paper from Woolworths they would spend the weeks up to Christmas, sitting by their coal fires, busy making lanterns and garlands for their Christmas decorations, much better fun than buying them ready made from the local £1 shop.
With some pram wheels, a wooden soap box, etc, they made their own transport. A few cuttings from the hedge rows and they manufactured their catapults, and bow and arrows. All the four seasons were taken up in various pursuits, Carol singing door to door, snow shifting person's fronts for a voluntary charge, marbles, hopscotch, and whip and top around Easter, long walks, picnics, fishing and other outdoor adventures in the summer, and collecting different types of fallen leaves and pressing them in books during Autumn.
Today's children may have their technology, but are they not losing out in some way?