“踢罐子躲猫猫”更好玩，我们会边跑边躲。最好的时光？绝对比现在孩子们的电子荒漠好玩。

In school holidays, we played out all day until it got too dark or we were too hungry. We played English v Germans, with home-made tommy guns. Rat-at-at-at! The war was a recent memory.

学校放假的时候，我们会玩上一整天，不到天黑或肚子饿绝不回家。我们玩“英国人对抗德国人”，拿着自制的冲锋枪。“叭叭叭叭！”那时候二战才过去不久。

The girls played hopscotch and skipping – lasses’ games that it was a boy’s delight to interrupt.

女孩们玩跳房子、跳绳，男孩最喜欢给她们捣乱。

Grandma never gave me any money. In any case, what would we have spent it on? Everything was still on the ration, including pear drops, my favourite sweets.

祖母从来不给我零花钱。不过就算给我钱，我也没地方可花。那时所有物资都是定量发放，包括我最喜欢的梨形糖果。

I went to Sunday school but got expelled for trying to tie the teacher’s shoelaces together. When I got home, I found out why my parents wanted me out for the afternoon.

我上过主日学校，但是我总想把老师的鞋带系在一块，所以被开除了。到家后，爸妈整个下午都不让我进门。

Reading Enid Blyton was for cissies. It was Captain W. E. Johns and Biggles.

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