[Silvercat]

At the age of about 11 I stayed with a mate overnight. We climbed out of her bedroom window in the middle of the night, jumped down off the porch roof, and went scrumping for apples in a local farmer's field. Then we wandered around the streets eating apples at 3 in the morning!

The only problem was, we couldn't get back into the house, so we nicked a plank from a nearby building site, propped it up against the porch, crawled up it and from there back into the bedroom window. It never occurred to us to kick the plank away afterwards, and that's how we got caught out the next day …..

Sounds like a made up story but I promise you it's true!

Oh, and playing with clackers - wouldn't be allowed these days, in case any little treasure smacked her wrist with one!