Story tree

I think of these trees, the ones which are easily accessible with lots of boughs forming, like, open up turned hands, fingers spread, as story trees or parliament trees. Trees where people, usually young folk, gather and as by the wear on the boughs, have gathered for years. We had one of the park near where I lived as a child, in the holidays it would be full of youth, up in all the branches like a troop of monkeys.  I have many memories of times at our tree. Here we'd plan our games or mighty adventures, arguments would be settled, things discussed and, in such a stereotypical way for the 70's, the older kids would read lurid saucy and most definitely fraudulent stories of the sort commonly found in 'hedge porn'.  See, 'hedge porn' is a rare thing today, though a common find in the 70's. Not specialist sauce for gardeners or another niche group, no, 'hedge porn' was simply porn one found in a hedge, made redundant nowadays by the internet. Now, I'm not saying anything about the morality of porn either way, although it was a much gentler exposure to sex and the naked female form through hedge porn than todays extremes. Not gynecological or hardcore or nasty or anal; what is the modern obsession with anal anyway? No, essentially you saw nothing other than some boob and thicket, really it all remained a mystery; and the stories didn't impart genuine or useful information either, other than to suggest the the adult world was full of fantasists, it had to be...and it is. Things were so much simpler then, we remained naive for longer, kept are innocence; it was better, or am I just looking through rose coloured glasses. No, it was better. Sorry, I've digressed from the tree, having been taken down a time tunnel to my 70's youth; the 70's, what a strange decade.  Anyway, I hope this tree still sees use in the planning of games and adventures, though sadly I doubt it, children grow so fast, forced up by a corporate media just itching to exploit them; no time for games or adventure...grow up fast and buy shit's the message now.