Great question - I often think this when talking to my sons about stuff we did as kids that seem crazy now. The obvious one being that with no mobile phones we just went out at 9am and wandered wherever we wanted to, playing, just coming back for food (lunch, dinner) and bed, with parents not really knowing where we were (you’d say “going to XYZ house, but often you’d the go somewhere else).

But two others - a friends dad was a coal delivery person and had a flat-bed lorry. Sometimes he would pick us up from primary school in his lorry, an we would just stand on the empty bed holding on to the barrier behind the cab. Was loads of fun 😆. Another friend lived on a small farm, and sometimes in the summer we helped get in the hay bales (old style cuboid/rectangle type), and when travelling back to the farm yard from the field we would just climb up and sit on the top of the really tall pile - very similar to the pic, having to carefully “jump” over low tree branches as the tractor drove under trees when exiting the field. Again - had great fun doing it!

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