had the belt quite a few times (tawse) and used to walk to and from school, in the winter it could be a bugger as the snow could be knee deep and your duffel coat got soaked, your trousers did not because they were short trousers. At play time we would go out and have snowball fights or in the summer play football.

In the summer holidays we used to arrange fishing ventures and walk a couple of miles to the loch, that after leaving a note for mum and dad to tell them where we were as we left the house before they were awake. We could not afford to go away on holidays so we were basically left to our own devices to entertain ourselves.

Like petal what is an iphone ? I was brought up when there were phone boxes with an A and B button and you used old pennies to make a phone call.