London and it’s treasures.
“Hey! look down there, I can see a sword!” We all pushed forward peering down into a dark hole. “What’s that over there?” someone said, pointing into an even darker corner. “It looks like bones to me” said another. We crammed up against the railing to see better. “I bet there’s even dead bodies down there”
The building was an empty brick shell with a gaping hole in the front wall and a large chunk of the ground floor missing, exposing a dark cellar, where these treasures lay. It was closed off with railings. The sword looked like it would be such fun to play with. There were clothes there too, but the sword was the important thing.
“Look there’s a long branch over there. Maybe we can get the sword with that.” someone said. Sandie, being the tallest, and with the longest arms, took the branch and stretched as far as she could “It’s no good, I can’t get it.” “Are you sure” we all cried. “Yes I’m sure, I can’t reach it at all” Sandie said. “Oh well, let’s see if we can find any more.” “Oh yes! Come on then” we all said excitedly, and went skipping down the road to find another treasure trove.
It had been a warm summers day, and we were roaming around looking for something to fill our day. Today we had been investigating bomb sites, left over from WWII.
Note: It obviously wasn’t a sword, but to our fantasizing minds it was.
Stumble it!
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Swubird | 12 April 2008 at 2:29
Beetle:
It’s very cool to find an honest to goodness sword. When I was a very little kid we were exploring an old house and found a brick enclosure that was filled with knives that had those wavy blades. Know what I mean? Well, anyway, we took about five of them to play with. A few days later a man came looking for us. He said he wouldn’t get us into trouble if we returned the knives, so we did. But it was unusual that they were just out there in that old broken down house. Whatever.
Have a nice day.
coolingstar9 | 12 April 2008 at 14:56
I am coolingstar9, the exciting part is the processing of finding, it is fun to have this type of activities once for a while to add some color into our life.
Good post, have a nice day.
weechuff | 14 April 2008 at 9:28
Children can make an adventure out of pratically nothing can’t they? The excitement of childhood!
Sindie | 14 April 2008 at 13:14
If it was’t a sword, what was it then? I wonder…..
Liudmila | 15 April 2008 at 19:24
And the children in one of the schools where I worked found a bomb remained after the WWII in the forest near the school… One of them was the only son of a teacher of that school…
Spider | 15 April 2008 at 22:22
oooh I loved exploring ‘bomb sites’ you could find all sorts of goodies along with all sorts of smellies :O)
Tina
Ella | 15 April 2008 at 22:41
Love your tales as a youth your youth sounds so exciting,keep up the good work, look forward to your next post
Dr Tweety of da Fab Five | 16 April 2008 at 3:55
Tanks fur makin’ my birf-day da bestee evfur!
(HIC!) Dr T
Gandalf & Grayson | 17 April 2008 at 12:36
We have never explored anything beyond our yard. That was very exciting!