by Ben Ross | Jan 10, 2017 | 100 Days Of Play
What would have you creeping around the woods, poking around undergrowth, or walking along the river foreshore scraping away at the surface mud? That’s right, the once, and to a lesser degree still, popular hobby of bottle-digging. Here bottles thrown away by...
by Ben Ross | Jan 9, 2017 | 100 Days Of Play
It’s a bit ‘Do what you love and you won’t work a day in your life’. When I was little, the chore I would do to earn a tiny amount of pocket money (unprotected as I was by any minimum wage legislation) was to wash the car. But I...
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...
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