Summer looks and that

This week we are looking at the more leisure side of this thing at least as it applies to me as we approach the countdown to when in times past we'd be commencing the long Summer Hols, tying things up often too.

That tying up might of been moving up to the next year group which may of included a short refresher of the ground you covered the that academic year and hwo that would help you start the next and for some either leaving school for Middle or High School with special services, taster sessions in your new school to ease transition or leaving the world of School for good although the vain hope of fifth formers of leaving education for ever isn't realized simply because we still have need to learn things as legal adults so end up going to college or university anyway.

Formal dress shorts go away for six or seven weeks as we put on t shirts or short sleeved polo shirts as do your grey shorts for sports shorts as we're out playing day after day, getting mucky to our mothers horror.

Modern sports shorts are nothing like those we wore so actually I got some much shorter football shorts aimed for girls and young women that are much shorter which do feel more like those I had back then and so during this hot spell they've been on and we're great.

Anyway nobody really can tell their origins so don't just rule out things for being on the other genders options if it is what you're looking for and for me it's more the play I loved and find I still need.

Anything that brings that back is good.

Going back to roots

Going back to my roots a bit across the weekend I was very much in my element playing with some young boys with family.

For one thing I did not look grown up, just a traditional grey school shirt, blue and off white tie, six inch inside leg grey school shorts and grey turn over top socks where everyone else was an adult including people younger than me (by age).

In some way it was a more modern form of Best for family occassions where I was the boy with his parents present.

Arriving, the boys were already playing in partitioned corner of  the diner with a thomas and percy train set which was of the sort that has no controller but just a battery in each engine with a switch that having put it on the track  and coupled anything to it, it just runs.

Between them they had the trains chasing each other as as I played and did a older boy supervision thing with them on the floor being quite content to play and leave the grown ups to their own talk.

It may of been someone elses birthday, but I was just happy to engaged playing with boys rather than struggling which isn't helped by my autism at doing the grown up thing so actually it did me a lot of good just to jump in and play with them.

It was the best family social interaction I'd had in years.