I rarely see youngsters climbing tress nowadays. I’m sure they must do – though maybe those who might be so inclined spend more time killing aliens and various ghouls and vampires in their computer games. Sheep and cows frequent these fields, which skirt the banks of the adjacent reservoir.
—Stephen—
Stephen G Hipperson 
Trees have to have health and safety assessments before they are felt safe enough to climb!
🙂 – I thought the whole excitement of climbing trees was the danger?
Of course it is! But risk and danger are being erased from young people’s lives so they can’t cope when they have to.
… and it can be nobody’s fault but our own…..?
I remember climbing trees when I was younger.
🙂
We had an oak tree in our garden when we were kids in the early 60s. I suspect health and safety and parental peer pressure would stop us today. Too dangerous! Well we never broke any bones. We planted acorns and scraped our knees a bit. And dad tied a swing to a bough for us to play on. Happy days.
Our house backed onto some woods so we nature’s children.
You never said a truer word! Life has changed for kids with the digital revolution – says he sitting at his computer! Also tree-climbing is risk-taking and modern society has gone too far in the business of protection perhaps. Des.
we may reap the rewards in years to come when we need risk takers who are not frightened of an adventure or two.
How could anyone resist it? I’m happy to say that I still climb trees! 🙂
(I might get my hands dirty!)
Go for it – you won’t believe the satisfaction there is to be had in climbing trees 😀