Out
back
They
would offer to walk to the corner shop to buy some 'bread and milk' and
duck off to the gully about 300 metres through the bush from the house.
Other kids from the neighbourhood also played there, devising all manner
of excuses to
get outside to catch guppies, look at bugs, attempt to make camp fires and temporary
dwellings from the large palm leaves and branches readily
available on ground level.