A childhood game in the vain of so many others but allowing for a malicious streak. The person who was on or it or whatever would have to tag someone else to get them to be on. All he had to do was catch you, so long as you weren't touching home. If you were, you were completely safe. Thing is, only so many people could be on home at once and as soon as a new person arrived at the 'home' (accompanied by a tumultuos cheer of "budge!") the person who had been there the longest would have to leave. Sounds easy! We got seriously into this and ended up with rules such as "no budging someone else until you've counted out loud to ten", "multiple homes where you only got one person per home and so you could choose your victim to budge and make 'homeless'" and "multiple budge where every time you shouted budge after joining the 'home' you could make someone else leave - and in this way, if too over excited, you could actually budge yourself." The game also came accompanied with beatings for people who never left a 'home' if at all possible, beatings for people who were "it" who used to ignore everyone until the person who had made them "it" was "budged" and just general beatings for being a twat. Like the boy who insisted that the steps were home and there was no limit, so we all sat on the steps for the entire break period and watched him run around the playground laughing at himself. Sigh.

You were safe provided you were off the ground. Cue occasional hilarity as six-year olds scrabble to climb sheer brick walls, using the strange belief that running into a wall and waving your arms around will somehow make you climb it.