31, A P Road

The memories while we lived in 31, Avadhana Papier Road, shortly, AP Road, are really bright. There are lots. Our favourite place was the terrace (again!). hey chechs, do our kids play any of these...?
Kalla Manna –
The top view of our terrace was a ‘C’ ( [ ). The house was so because of the muttram. The two ends of the terrace was ‘Kal’ and the space in between was ‘Mann’. One of us should be ‘out’ and take up either Kal or Man. The rest should take the other place. Generally the ‘out’ person took the mann. And the rest split ourselves and stood in the kal. We should try to move from one ‘kal’ space to the other without getting touched by the ‘out’. The one who gets ‘caught’ by the ‘out’ is the new ‘out’ and the game starts all over again.
Skipping-
We were four crazy little girls who skipped a lot. My sis used to go in hundreds. We used to compete with each other. I don’t remember who used to win. But it was always tough. Chechi use to lose her ‘golusu mani’ and royally get it from mother for being careless.
Bachch-
This was a piece of flat stone used like a ‘coin’ on boxes drawn on the floor. They were drawn using ‘sengal’ or chalk piece. A big rectangle of about 6’x4’ was equally divided into 6 boxes (3rows and 2columns). Each one of us had a ‘bachch’ and had to hop around these boxes for many rounds, without stamping the lines, each time changing the position of the ‘bachch’. Except for the initial few rounds, we are not supposed to drop the ‘bachch’. The aim is to ‘acquire’ the boxes. The winner is the one with maximum number of boxes.
We must have played other games too. But these were repeatedly played for long hours. Our friends, P. Sumathi has two daughters and B. Sumathi has a son and daughter. Both were middle class family kids studying in a Corporation school on the same road. Thank you ladies. We did have a good time.