Bringing the Boredom Back

Mmm. It's the second day of the Easter holidays and the rain hasn't stopped. I'm not really surprised, though. Have you ever heard anyone say "When I was young the sun shone and we stayed out all day and didn't come home until bedtime?" It wasn't often like that  round our way. Sometimes it even snowed in April:

There was the famous Easter my sister managed to slip into her new pink shorts. But that was the year I was on an exchange trip to freezing France. With too few sweaters.

I think I've already told you about the wet Easter we spent roller skating up and down the hall. Maybe that was the same year we spent an afternoon lined up across a neighbours garage, brushing the rain water back out. We thought it was fun! Possibly the best fun we'd had all holiday.  Look, you can tell by the happy faces it was a good year.

Ah, that's entertainment. (And that's my brother and sister, who will try to tell you this photo was taken in July. But, believe me, round here there isn't much difference between April and July; so I'm going with it.)

The following year we got organised and set up a club for all the kids in the street. We crammed into my Mum's kitchen; drinking orange squash and doing - well, make-and-takes you'd call them now.

Which brings me back to today. My kids seem incredulous when I tell them how we made our own fun. We didn't need DVD's or Playstations. We would have laughed in the face of Twitter. (Maybe not. You're probably right.) I think I'm going to make them try this holiday, though. Yes! I'm Bringing Boredom Back! Turning off the television. Confiscating the computer. Bringing out the colouring pencils. We'll see how it goes.