"It was no one i had heard of so I looked at the horror scopes" https://hearthis.at/grottbags/live/
Out the red door, along a little concrete path with a small garden on the left and a gravel driveway on the right. Big bushy shrub plant at the end of the path, it had lots of bright pinky reddy petals with purple tube bits poking out through the middle. Cool little waxy dark green leafs. If run fingers from base of stalk to the tip, the leafs and petals collect in a interesting way, looks like a tiny bouquet of flower. Ignore that though, the waist high smooth wooden gate with traditional creeky hinges is where the path was leading. Press the metal latch down, pulling the gate towards you so you can get out onto the street. A normal semi-detatched bricked house street. Turn left and follow the hedge which also continues left.
You'll first pass the house where a nice old lady used to live. She would lean over the hedge and hand over old lady minty sweets. When she died, the house was replaced with Peter Poo. He became a nemisis because he once told two kids off for throwing his driveway stones at his house!
Keep walking towards where you can see the road bending off to the left... or right. But you know you want left so you don't have to cross the really quiet road. Plus the amusement spot is that direction. When you reach the corner and turn left, you can see a small row of houses on both sides of the street, a bus stop stick, and at the end is the junction to the main scary big road. Never go that far. Only allowed around the block.
One of the houses on the left is where two girls live that you've met through school, their mother always gives you a pop tart and they have a big smelly dog that slept on it's smelly bed. You could also play in their small garden, but there wasn't much to do and outside the front was way better. Their hedge for instance, has a hollow area along the bottom and you know you can crawl under there with friends and hang out in hedge den envionments, believeing you couldn't be seen when others walked past. 4 kids once found a big sheet of blue plastic under the hedge, it was what made the original discovery of being able to crawl and fit under there. As all 4 kids sat under the hedge with the big blue plastic sheet, they concluded the best thing to do with it was.... smelt it and see how big plastic smelts.
A young kid ran off, just across the road to their home, and returned quickly, carrying a small box of matches they took from the kitchen. All the kids started striking the matches, enjoying getting away with it, enjoying seeing what happens to materials that meet fire. It was fine to begin, lots of smelting and watching little holes form and strecth before drying into hard plastic rimmed holey shapes. The more they practiced, the more daring they got, leaving the smelting to creep further without stubbing it out. But then a corner really took off, a flame appeared and smoke got thick... so they all crawled from under the hedge... and ran away. Leaving a small quite dangerous hedge plastic fire burning. Presumed the mother came to the rescue and poured water over it. Outcome unknown, but the hedge remained the next day.
So that's on your left but there's no reason to stop, actually, the bus stop is opposite you at this point so cross the quiet road. You'll end up in front of a young girls house who had a awesome Barbie AND Polly Pockets. Her back garden backed onto a big farm field. Great view.
Ignore that though, walk forward a bit more and there's a glass BT phone box that only sometimes stinks of piss. From there you can hear humming which you'll see it comes from a green rectangle electric box just behind a waist high wood slit fence. Climbable. The enclosure has been made around the box with the yellow lightning danger stickers, but if you climb into the area and walk forward towards the trees, you'll notice it actually becomes a little woods. There's a giant branch fell down but you can sit on it and it bounces up and down. But the main thing two kids chose to invent and do is... help a tree that never asked for help,
There is a little thorny tree that occassionally blossoms. But at the moment, it has no leafs and the blossom fell off ages ago. New leafs can be seen poking through in places...but there are tiny spikes all over the branches. The kids believed the spikes were making the tree sad so spent ages scraping branches with whatever they could find, removing the spikes and stripping the bark in spots without a care in the world. The tree became known as Tree-ey. It's nothing special. We've come all this way for this... this, no reason. But... it's oddly famous amongst a certain crowd... of two... the two kids that visited the tree and named it tree-ey and gave it a personaility of gratitude for spike removal. That tree has been there for over 35 years, being Tree-ey.
You can leave now.
