So what did we do during breaks in our concrete playground at junior school?
Well, many of the more energetic boys would play football (with an old tennis ball). I tended to play with “cigarette cards” with my friends (in fact we collected cards from packets of tea, rather than from packets of cigarettes!). The idea was that you’d take it in turns to flick a card from your collection against the wall, and if your card landed on one of the others then you’d win and take all the cards. Obviously the first flick had no chance of winning anything, so you’d always use your most dog-eared card for that, and sometimes it wouldn’t even reach the wall.