For me the adventure lay in a small hill at the end of our court over which lay a stream (a drainage channel really but that did not fuel the imagination so much). Overgrown with trees, wildflowers and blackberries this was one forbidden place which we would escape to to create our fantasies. The other lay in an unlikely place, the implications of which we were too young to grasp - hours and hours spent playing on the flat thick concrete roofs of the old air raid shelters that sat at the bottom of every garden in our street (thankfully now used for storage, not regular nocturnal escapes from bombers). I took full advantage of what was on my own doorstep.

I no longer look for adventures, thrills and fantasy to satisfy me but over time I did come back full circle to appreciating what is here on my own doorstep - my life as it is, with whatever ups and downs and changes it may bring. Thank you for the reminder.

I think I have to say Thank you for reminding me as well…..life is like that it often lead you right back to square one in order to show you that everything you need is already here