Originally Posted by Tog Tan

Intro...sad violin solo.... You guys have all the fun in the west, cos at that time all we had here was the jungle right behind our houses. What bikes? ....sadder violin solo....
All we did all day was wander around the bushes trying to catch the little spiders in the leaves and put them into the metal cigarette tins with a leaf...then we will bring it around and fight them with our peers. We swatted flies to feed them had them drink from our spit! The other pastime was to get into the jungle and with a stick whack through the huge colocasias imagining we were slaughtering the Romans from the few movies we had the good fortune to see in the cinemas. When we were all dirty and yucky, we would yank some of the bigger tubers or dig up some old ginger rhizomes to go back to appease our mom. If they liked what we brought home, we won't get a heck of a caning cos of our muddy clothes! That was my childhood!