OK. A little more detail on this one. I was a bit older, about 10, and the games lasted a bit longer.
My mum worked. I was the only child of a single mother but mum was quite well paid and when I was in junior school she worked fill tike Monday to Friday. I would go to afterschool clubs, round friend's houses and sometimes have a child minder/babysitter after school. Holidays would again be a similar mix. There was one friend of mum's who would sometimes look after me. I'll call her Julie. She was a nurse who worked shifts, so sometimes week ends or nights and she'd have days off in the week. Sometimes she'd come to our house, mostly I'd get dropped off by mum as she went to work. Julie didn't have children so I would take a bag of lego, books etc to play with. Sometimes I'd watch TV, usually we'd go out to a local rk or something Julie had an odd habit Often she would have an afternoon sleep. Only about an hour or so which she would blame on working late shifts or early starts. I began to put some tie up things in my bag in the hope she'd have a little sleep.