The one game we could never resist as kids was what we called ‘knock and run’ – the age-old tradition of naughty children knocking on doors or ringing doorbells and quickly legging it.
For a time it was a favourite game for myself and my two younger siblings, Ollie and Caitlin. We were caught a couple of times, which resulted in a mouthful of abuse from the unfortunate householder but nothing more. We did at least have the sense to not ‘shit on our doorstep’, keeping targets many streets away from our homes.