When kids were kids in most rural towns, there was gravel on the playgrounds, goat head stickers in the outfields of ball fields. And then if you were lucky? There was a tetherball set up beckoning ...

A pet owner found an inventive new way to keep her dog entertained amid the coronavirus lockdown, by turning her back-garden tetherball into a never-ending game of fetch. Fiona Dalwood, from Melbourne ...