When I was a boy, my parents and I often went to stay with their closest friends (each of the husbands had been the other’s best man at their wedding) in a small town in the UK county of Yorkshire.
The other couple had three children; two boys slightly younger than myself and a girl, Laura, who the same age as me. Despite the age differences, we always had lots of fun playing together whenever we saw each other and would make up some very creative games, left to our own devices.