by Ben Ross | Jan 8, 2017 | 100 Days Of Play
To my shame I’ve never visited what was the Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood and is now the V&A Museum of Childhood. Tom informs me – as we step into the large open hall, with the shop and café in the middle, and exhibition space in the raised areas,...
by Ben Ross | Jan 7, 2017 | 100 Days Of Play
Why are Turkish Baths called Turkish Baths? Okay, okay, so there’s an obvious answer to that question, but I mean apart from the fact that they have them in Turkey. I guess what I’m asking is: didn’t everywhere once have these public communal baths...
by Ben Ross | Jan 6, 2017 | 100 Days Of Play
I have a very vivid memory of my first or second year of school. Namely that my favourite part of class was tidying up. It may have only lasted a week or so (or a day!) but I remember it as being consistently true. After chaos and equipment being distributed to all...
by Ben Ross | Jan 5, 2017 | 100 Days Of Play
It’s one of those play mysteries. If I told you to strap some uncomfortable boots with sharp blades on the underside to your feet, and then go and cross a large expanse of very slippery terrain, you’d probably complain that I was try to bully you. And yet...
by Ben Ross | Jan 4, 2017 | 100 Days Of Play
For Christnukah someone gave me a paper plane propeller. It looks like a propeller on a long stick with a nodule on the end. You hold the nodule against a battery pack for a few seconds and then the propeller starts spinning. The nodule attaches to the nose of your...
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