Ha! I didn't see the text, for whatever reason when you upload a tweet, I only see half of it, then I have to refresh the page to see the rest... I thought you'd posted an optical illusion with something written in the crowd
I can screenshot and crop so it posts as a normal image if it's slowing phones. But then you can't click on them to read the meltdowns.
Nah leave it Bri, I just refresh and it's fine, on my desktop. That kid jumping through that table made me giggle.
I was that kid growing up. I set fire to a tin of paint inside a garage when I was about 8 years old, we'd climbed in through a hole in the roof, it was some abandoned old lock up... when I went to escape I realised we'd been using the tin to stand on to get out of the hole.
I was raised on the street, not literally, but we would find a way into any building that wasn't occupied. All sorts of fun times.
Round Greater Manchester you'll have had plenty of choice. round the mills down by the canals, I would have loved to explore all that.
Loads of places mate, we got into a little warehouse once, full of carpets on rolls, it was like a fun house. Used to go on loads of expeditions, sometimes in rural areas and camp out, when we were about 12/13... it was like the Goonies, or Stand By Me, but without the dead body.
You've enjoied a very similar childhood to myself mate. Loads of football too, every break, every lunchtime, 3 or 4 hours after school every single day, that explore on a weekend, then I hit 15 and drink replaced the expeditions
Camping in hamsterley forest as a teenager, surely there's many of us from County Durham have done this?
Loved it mate, as long as I was home before Heartbeat started on a Sunday night, my mum would be ok with me going off on my little missions with my mates. I hated school, but I loved the rest of my youth.
Seemed part of our youth culture, we'd go for miles, but by the time we got going their could be up to 20 of us, older kids, kids from other schools, the group just kind of used to build up. Same when we started drinking on the streets too, the groups just used to increase.
Getting a bit nostalgic here lads. Keep talking about this with the wife. We used to go out after breakfast and as long as you were back for tea you were not really supervised. I am talking maybe 8/9 year old upwards? Just mucking about playing footy, cricket with shopping trollies as the stumps, tennis with the court chalked on the floor, on bikes and generally just mucking around. Different world nowadays.
