Summertime play with your mates

Summer means time together exploring and doing things together in our very own spaces so we'd make dens or climb up to our tree house for a pow-pow and sesson together for ages or at least until our Mum's called us in (and home).

It is most emphatically NOT a girls zone, you have your own with your own kind so only boys are allowed to partake in play and rituals we, as boys, love and so we have our action figures, games and toys like guns we play with with much badinage and horse play tossed in for good measure.

We definately know what boys are here as we form a tight bond and that's how we like it  enjoying our masculine ways while the girls do their thing no doubt feeling better off for not having to accomodate us.

Of course there are times we might do the odd thing together but otherwise this suits all of us down to the ground.

I'm glad to be a boy.

Play is thirsty work

Play with your mates is thirsty work with all that running around, making things and inevitable a high proportion of horse play with rough housing as gentile it sure ain't being a tea party free setting and not always in places like parks.

We'd roam the nearby woods, semi deserted pathways and the like playing ball games when not playing war games dividing into sides with "The Enemy" if captured being "tortured" usually tickled or playfully slapped on the legs until we gave away "secrets" of that mission.

It was hardly suprising we formed tight bonds.

As rough by modern standards it was, we loved it.