I write for both adults & children when not tweeting pictures of my dog. New novel for adults - 'Small Bomb at Dimperly', a post-war love story - is out in May.
A short thread on 1960s/70s playgrounds:
As there really was nothing to do during these decades, most children spent up to six hours a day at the local playground, returning home either to eat or to have their injuries tended. 1/7
Occasionally - if, say, they got one leg stuck in the chimney of the decommissioned traction engine cemented into Lichfield’s Beacon Park as an imaginative-play item – they might even have to stay overnight, or until extracted by the fire-brigade. 2/7
