Sticks, stones, the bar base, Mrs. Puddicombe
will put you in the pickle jar! Danny
McGahy getting a rubber stuck up his
nose and Alan’s spaz triangle for his
pencil. The pentagonal climbing frame -
probably outlawed these days, Whetcombe cliff
diving, the BMX track and the Teign
Valley Phantoms. Chicken chaser on his
Thomas moped, the world’s hardest paper
round paying just four quid a week, class one
and the box of pants just in case you did
not make it and the sand pit frog. Plummer
going for a dump down the fields and,
“Captain Brownie, he’s a hero, he takes
the food supply down to zero!” All boys
fancied Tanya Strongman and tried to see
her naked, Nathan’s freaky outie and
Mr. Handly the grass. Pebworth’s many
beatings, our actions forced the poor lad
into enlisting with the police and,
“blues, blues never lose, greens, greens the bogey
machines and reds, reds wet their beds and put
their nappies on their heads!” Making mud bombs…
Chris Sharp 2007