Children Used To Play Outside More Often

     When I was a little girl at Baston School in England, I disliked the cold so much that I used to hide in the library at lunch break and read a book instead of going out to play in some winter months.  I found many treasures there and that is probably one of the principle reasons I am a writer today.
     But other times I used to play outside often.   My neighbourhood for much of my childhood was in the countryside and we used to play that we were living in our adventure playground, as we used to call it.  We spent hours outside in good weather, weaving our adventures, imagining we were running our own civilization in the jungle and had great fun at it.