Sometimes I feel the age old understandings of just coming out with what your terms of interacting with folk such as a social group or whatever are easier as at least it's all out in the open.
The nineteen-nineties were a period where I did revert a bit more back outside of anything such as my job and outside adult interests to boyhood although t be honest it never really left me and one expression of that was I did wear around the spring and summer footie shorts.
To be honest for a good portion of this period I did spend my time in sports shops buying sports branded t shirts, track pants and shorts such as this very pair of Umbro's which I wore a lot even though my cats who were kittens at the time tugged many a hole in them.
I preferred the simpler designed ones as they were hard wearing and easier to wash whenever I was away.
I also watched a lot of live soccer as I had Sky tv then jumping up and down supporting my team and watching the newly formed English Premiership clubs progress both domestically and in Europe in way not to dissimilar than watching Sunday afternoon matches with my Nan who fed me on Cadbury's Fruit and Nutcake chocolate bars in my teens.
It just fired me up.
Thinking a little about the past in which photography played a part taking pictures of my childhood, two things that almost run into each other were the television series for children "Blue Peter" that I may write a bit more about one day and Paddington Bear who apart from having fictional adventures that I read certainly in my junior years also had a tv animated series on the BBC.
One link also was that for a number years that cover my infant and junior school years in each book published yearly that outlined the last twelve months of Blue Peter, there were exclusive short Paddington Bear stories illustrated in each edition.
In 1973 as I recall it being mentioned in the Radio Times underneath each entry for that show a book compiling them from 1966 through 1972 entitled Paddington's Blue Peter Story Book came out that had these stories of him being involved in the program and having a copy of it.
One thing that does come to mind as we've entered May is the Maypole Dance which is something as a boy in juniors I well remember taking part in at the start of the month usually connected other school events that day, taking time out from lessons to practice our steps.
I love to watch children today maintain that centuries old link.
