Pleasant walk round Carey Park this morning. Avoided lots of dog walkers. Down the conk conk path to the post office in Middlewich Road to post a packet to Italy and buy a bunch of second class stamps. Cost an arm and a leg. The original "conk conk path" was in Pitsea and ran behind Pitsea school and a quick leafy way to get to the school, the market and the cinema back in the 50's and early 60's. Later it got built over with the expanding housing estates. before it was a great place for exploring old bungalows and orchards left empty - scrumping, building dens etc. One gravel road that crossed it seemed covered in bottle tops - thousands of them it seemed at the time. There was also a little shop that was handy for sweets - penny chews- chalky cigarettes - dib dabs - bubble gum etc.
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