🙂 I look forward to seeing where you walk to (my mum's road is a long road with lots of houses).

Woodley Shopping Precinct is where I used to buy my toys and sweets (although those shops are long gone). Next to that is Woodford Park, where I spent many, many hours playing by the lake and on the fields (they've built some nice, new buildings and play park since I lived there). I got kicked out of their Play Scheme (holiday club) one summer.

If you go, you'll see some wooden barriers between the road and the big hill... we used to ride our bikes down that hill and my friend hit the "dip" at the bottom, flew off his bike and his face scraping along the pavement wasn't pretty. They put up that little fence soon after.

I also used to ride down that hill on a sleigh when it snowed.

My mum still walks through that park when she goes to the shops and when she picks my niece and nephew up from school.

I was telling the-mrs-gorilla that you were visiting Woodley today and I felt an incredible wave of emotion that's impossible to explain. Almost tearful.

Speaking of schools - I'm curious as to what school Timothy goes to? He's the same age as my nephew so I wonder if they go to the same school!