Hopscotch

Blipped Rory playing hopscotch on his lunchtime walk.

It’s great to see that some kids still get tremendous fun chalking the pavement, and playing games like hopscotch. Much more enjoyable than being glued to their phones!

In Glasgow, the hopscotch game is called "beds" or "Peever(s)". "Peever" is also the name of the object which is slid across the grid to land in a square. In the 1950s and 1960s in Glasgow, it was common for the peever to be a shoe polish tin filled with stones or dirt and screwed shut.

Edinburgh children also call the game Peevers, played on a Peever bed with a chalked grid and a small flat tin - like a puck, where the chalk is stored during the game with the ballast.

I hope you have a good Monday.