Mary, Mungo and Midge

Age Regression is of the past because it was in the past the first time around so when
people often hear the grown ups talking about how we live, the type of environment they planned and how that affects things this taps into some of things we recall of the past.

For instance in the late 1960's and 1970's the way children lived was changing rapidly brought on by both the idea of keeping more green spaces and also using less land for housing.

One famous children's tv series caught it well.

Yes that is a lift to the flat Mary lived in with Mungo the dog and Midge the inquisitive mouse in their town. They had a flat with a balcony that served as their garden and if they wanted more space then they'd go the communal park where fairs and other things go on.

Here's Mary playing with the bright colourful building blocks.

It was a show that i loved as a young child whose parents while moving out of the inner city hadn't been transferred to high rise flats but lived in newer traditional houses just beyond.

The show had annuals such as this one we had and in the pre video recorder era, records of the stories we could play over and over again.

 I often harboured the thought they were trying to prepare us to this more isolated existence where everyone kept themselves to themselves, a far cry from the sort of life my folks had had.

For one thing you couldn't just play in each others gardens or on the street, just in doors in the park away from the neighbours and the other is it remove the wonder of seeing the natural environment with it's calming effects.