The outdoor games children play have changed dramatically over generations

It's the summer, and suddenly the neighbourhood is filled with voices of children playing. Looking down from my balcony I remembered the games we played many suns ago, in the building: 'Dabba ice-spice' (do kids play that anymore?), 'dhaaba-doobi' or 'kings', as the more gentrified called it, 'seven stones', 'hide and seek', 'L-O-N-D-O-N London'! And of course, gully cricket.

We would loaf from building to building on Nepean Sea Road to play any or sometimes all of these games. I wondered whether any of these games had endured, and if not, what were children playing nowadays? I went downstairs and watched with curiosity a child being made the 'den', and then being tied to the handlebars of a cycle, feet astride the front wheel. What kind of game was this?