FabSwingers.com forum: what do you miss the most??

By *aterfordDom OP Man
over a year ago

waterford

Just been thinking.. life was so much simpler and more fun when I was a kid.

One thing I loved were the school deserts! Sponge cake and custard! Sometimes pink custard!! Lovely!!

What's the one thing that you miss from when you were a kid?

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By *ierycrackWoman
over a year ago

SOMEWHERE ELUSIVE........AND HOT!!!

Being a tom boy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Having no bills

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By *al2001Man
over a year ago

kildare

Getting covered in talcum powder after a bath on a Saturday and watching The A team in my jammies with my dog

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Swapping "fancy paper" with my pals.

Memories.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Living next to a bread/bread products factory...

You can make pink custard at home... just use a packet of blancmange and too much milk. Couldn't tell you how to make the concrete sponge though because mine are always perfect.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Liverpool kicking the shite out of everyone

And He-Man

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By *-ManMan
over a year ago

Kark

Smiley bars

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

Sunny weather

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cuddles from my mammy and daddy

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By *andaCouple
over a year ago

co down

"Liverpool kicking the shite out of everyone

And He-Man

Lol. Leeds kicking the shite out of everyone!....... and my matchbox cars

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Cuddles from my mammy and daddy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Having no bills

Hahahaha

Chalk it down girl!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Just been thinking.. life was so much simpler and more fun when I was a kid.

One thing I loved were the school deserts! Sponge cake and custard! Sometimes pink custard!! Lovely!!

What's the one thing that you miss from when you were a kid?

Mobileless society. Actually speaking on the phone to friends, writing letters, knees, holidaying in Portrush and Donegal, building ramps to launch myself and my bike off, building go-karts out of old pram wheels, naivity, Dungeons and Dragons, building tents and hideouts out of blankets and duvets, playing cricket in the back yard, being scared while watching horror movies, my dads VW camper, my mums beetle, weekends at my grandparents, my grandparents, mouth machine gun noises, toy soldiers, uno, toasting bread on the fire, trying to stay up late to watch Cheers or Moonlighting, watching Gladiators before going to meet my mates on a Saturday night, stuffing as many pillows in my pyjamas as possible and smashing into my brother, running up stairs(just because i could), poking around rock pools to catch crabs/starfish/stickle backs and creating my own ecosystem back home in a basin!(all form of life was gone the next day lol) and everyday was filled with possibility........ That all made me smile, great thread

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Penny sweets

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Summers

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By *aterfordDom OP Man
over a year ago

waterford

Some lovely memories there

Being tucked into bed..nice n tight.. n my mum n dad kissing me good night.. miss that.

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

"Some lovely memories there

Being tucked into bed..nice n tight.. n my mum n dad kissing me good night.. miss that.

It'd be a bit weird by now anyway

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

"Some lovely memories there

Being tucked into bed..nice n tight.. n my mum n dad kissing me good night.. miss that.

It'd be a bit weird by now anyway

Especially if you had pulled

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By *aterfordDom OP Man
over a year ago

waterford

"Penny sweets

Ah Yer.. penny sweets

Getting pocket money n being so excited..heading down the local shop n spending it all on a comic n a bag of penny sweets

Trying to make the sweets last the whole week!!

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By *aterfordDom OP Man
over a year ago

waterford

"Some lovely memories there

Being tucked into bed..nice n tight.. n my mum n dad kissing me good night.. miss that.

It'd be a bit weird by now anyway

Especially if you had pulled

Lol... Yer that would be weird

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By *aterfordDom OP Man
over a year ago

waterford

"Living next to a bread/bread products factory...

You can make pink custard at home... just use a packet of blancmange and too much milk. Couldn't tell you how to make the concrete sponge though because mine are always perfect.

Thanks for the tip..I might try that out

The sponge use to come in large trays.. 2 foot by 3 foot.. cut into sections.. n it would have a thin layer of jam sprinkled with coconut shavings on top.. it was heaven in a bowl

lol

Sometimes id skip the dinner n have 2 deserts

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

"Living next to a bread/bread products factory...

You can make pink custard at home... just use a packet of blancmange and too much milk. Couldn't tell you how to make the concrete sponge though because mine are always perfect.

Thanks for the tip..I might try that out

The sponge use to come in large trays.. 2 foot by 3 foot.. cut into sections.. n it would have a thin layer of jam sprinkled with coconut shavings on top.. it was heaven in a bowl

lol

Sometimes id skip the dinner n have 2 deserts

Posh school!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Had some jam roly-poly last week...my teeth are throbbing just thinking about it now...

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By *aterfordDom OP Man
over a year ago

waterford

"Had some jam roly-poly last week...my teeth are throbbing just thinking about it now..."

Roly-poly loved that..with custard of course

Miss my mothers cooking (roast dinner) and my grandmothers cooking.. she made amazing tarts

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Really am I the only one whose mum didn't give hugs. Thought it was an Irish thing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Swapping "fancy paper" with my pals.

Memories.

Oh my god fancy paper!!! I used to have tonnes, haven't thought about that in years! Thanks for the memory there boldy

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By *aughtyTippcplCouple
over a year ago

Nearby

Being totally care free, coming and going as I pleased. Being able to climb trees. Spending summer days on all day walks up the fields only going home when we got hungry

Oh the memories are flooding back

Tina

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

"Had some jam roly-poly last week...my teeth are throbbing just thinking about it now...

Roly-poly loved that..with custard of course

Miss my mothers cooking (roast dinner) and my grandmothers cooking.. she made amazing tarts

There's a few amazing tarts here as well!

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By *andyman11Man
over a year ago

dublin

Parents buying a whole box of kinder eggs for us and eating so much of it just so I could play with the toys. Having my hands down my pants without worrying what anyone was thinking.. Also, lunch time in school, wondering what great food the school would be serving for lunch.

good times. Or eating cut up apples in bed while watching Red Dwarf.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Writing band names on your schoolbag...

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

I'm starting to feel I missed out on something with all these school dinners. I didn't know there were school dinners in Ireland back then

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

"Writing band names on your schoolbag..."

I remember a buddy who had a canvas bag with Status Quo written on it. During the hunger strike of '81 he converted it to Political Status Quo.

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By *ittleman300Man
over a year ago

tralee

The advice and company of my parents, miss them both

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Writing band names on your schoolbag..."

Oh god yes! Ha ha!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The advice and company of my parents, miss them both"

Forever in your memories

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Writing band names on your schoolbag...

I remember a buddy who had a canvas bag with Status Quo written on it. During the hunger strike of '81 he converted it to Political Status Quo.

Deep. Remember those blue, yellow or green army shoulder bags with the buckles?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

chopper bike

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By *ittleman300Man
over a year ago

tralee

Does anyone remember the little round badges of bands and singers,I used to have loads on a wrangler jacket

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Playing cowboys and Indians with my brother and cousins on my grandparents farm, using hurls for guns. Those were the days

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Does anyone remember the little round badges of bands and singers,I used to have loads on a wrangler jacket"

The kids re-used all mine a few years ago when they came back in fashion...hubs wouldn't share his mod ones...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Robbing the local orchards hoping the owner saw you and gave chase l

Making go karts

Toffee logs

Black Jacks

Making dens and tree houses in the woods

The mod/ska/rocker/punk/new romantic gangs at the local disco

The Riordans

And most of all....

Sally O'Brien and the way she might look at you

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By *ord Willy McFuck-BucketMan
over a year ago

newcastle

finding porn under hedges

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

"Robbing the local orchards hoping the owner saw you and gave chase l

Making go karts

Toffee logs

Black Jacks

Making dens and tree houses in the woods

The mod/ska/rocker/punk/new romantic gangs at the local disco

The Riordans

And most of all....

Sally O'Brien and the way she might look at you

Jaysus... Were the Riordans at the local disco? How cool is that...

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

The only bad memory I have is of leaving porn under a hedge and coming back to find some hoor had made off with it. I hope he couldn't get the pages separated! Bastard!

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By *ord Willy McFuck-BucketMan
over a year ago

newcastle

the day the new club book arrived a full hour looking at the bra section and nearly pulling the insides outta meself

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"the day the new club book arrived a full hour looking at the bra section and nearly pulling the insides outta meself"

Like a Littlewoods shop at home catalogue?

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By *arry and AnnCouple
over a year ago

Louth

I miss how much Christmas morning meant..

Waking up to the excitement of what's under the tree; nowadays the kids dont really seem pushed

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bullseye and the smurfs la la la la la la la

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By *ord Willy McFuck-BucketMan
over a year ago

newcastle

if peter kay is reading this topic thats his new show sorted

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Playing cribby in the street with all the neighbors.

Playing kissy catchies in the playground.

Oh and my Jason Donavan bomber jacket.....

Shit did I just admit that lol

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By *ean0001Man
over a year ago

Dublin West

Sticking bits of plastic on your bike spokes to make a noise as you cycled along, building and rebuilding bikes as i never had a new one.

Building forts and tree houses. Taking stuff to bits just to see how it worked.

Watching the A team, night rider, air wolf and the Gladiators.

Singing along to the greatest american hero.

Pink panther bars and fizzle sticks.

Sliding down icy hills on an old bit of heavy plastic bag.

I still think of Jet from the Gladiators, but now i follow her on Twitter. My first celeb crush..

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By *arnal DesiresCouple
over a year ago

Limerick

Making go cart out of a plank of wood, string and tiny metal wheels, flying down the hill on it, rolling off it just before you got to the main road all the while trying not to role into the thorn bushes

Playing dungeons and dragons

Building Lego, hitting my brother with his E.T. teddy (accidentally knocked him unconscious), playing witches and warlocks, getting penny sweets and tormenting the shop keeper,

Miss my family and all the fun of having us all squished into the car for our trips to Kerry

Such a great thread with even better memories, Fee

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By *ohnbi01Man
over a year ago

tipperary

Giving the bumps to people on birthdays.

We gave them to a mate a while back for his 40th. We nearly killed the poor hoor.

Been allowed stay out later on the long summer evenings.

Miss the two month holidays from school.

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By *ommickMan
over a year ago

cork

Actually having money not much but it was mine for whatever I wanted usually a fatfrog or a 54321 bar or a marathon and when the tayto cost 12 pence

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By *exycouplemmmmCouple
over a year ago

Surrey

"Some lovely memories there

Being tucked into bed..nice n tight.. n my mum n dad kissing me good night.. miss that.

Love this

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By *exycouplemmmmCouple
over a year ago

Surrey

Bath Sunday evening, sitting on the floor in front of the sofa as mum or dad blow dried my long hair. Lovely memories X

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

"Actually having money not much but it was mine for whatever I wanted usually a fatfrog or a 54321 bar or a marathon and when the tayto cost 12 pence"

I remember when Tayto jumped from tuppence to tuppence ha'penny. There was nearly a riot outside the local shop.

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By *armel and FrancisCouple
over a year ago

North wex

Star bars.

5p Tayto bags.

Summer holidays staying out til dusk without fear.

When a trip to flicks or a McDs was a REAL treat.

Cycling without a helmet

No internet.

No emails

Only being aware of ur neighbourhood and friends.

Dwans drinks

Golly bars

Les Dawson

Dick Emery

LABF

When u knew ur neighbours even tho u might not like them lol

Sunburn.(Life is too safe now lol)

Wondering what was on the B side of ur single.

The aparent simplicity of life. Awww those were the day my friends.......

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

summers just being outside and playing.

getting up early on a saturday morning to watch the cartoons.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Running a muc with no responsibilities

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By *aterfordDom OP Man
over a year ago

waterford

Spending the whole day on the beach with mum n dad, brothers n sisters.. having a picnic.. sandwiches, boiled eggs, crisps n fizzy drink.. swimming..running n laughing.. just enjoying

Sleeping on the way home in the car..exhausted

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By *ale4U2Man
over a year ago

Nearby

Football matches on the green that varied in the amount of players on each side and usually took around three hours to play until u got called in for ur dinner or everyone was pissed off and decided it was next goal the winner

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By *aid backMan
over a year ago

by a lake with my rod out

spending my time fishing, shooting and getting up to all sorts of mischief not much has changed really

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By *ymguylMan
over a year ago

ennis

swimming in the local lake and playing soccer until late on a small green area and helping outself to apples in the local orchard lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My granny.

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By *aughtyTippcplCouple
over a year ago

Nearby

My Dad, always in the shed making/fixing something or other

Tina

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The terror of the school bus depending on where you were in the social pecking order...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Finding my old mans vcr porn vid and couldn't wait for him to go down the pub just so I could get it out to watch, very slow to get tape old should anyone come in !!!

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over a year ago

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over a year ago

I was gonna say "putting Hula Hoops on your fingers then eating them off" but as I've just done it it'll have to be "putting Hula Hoops on your finger ends & eating them off". Then shrinking the crisp bag on the hearth.

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By *umpsMan
over a year ago

city

Borrowing the bar of chocolates and sweets from the local shops...( long term)

Growing up and going to the beach, woods etc with my siblings...

Xmas morning when I believed in santa..

The buster comic book..

And to end this:

My 5th year teacher Ms o connell..

Are you here ms o connell..

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By *ord Willy McFuck-BucketMan
over a year ago

newcastle

Drinking and not getting hangovers

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over a year ago

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over a year ago

Taking the horse to France...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I miss being a child & not having no worries. I also miss heading to my grandads house on a Saturday morning with my dad. I use to sneak my grandad in his favourite bun with out my dad seeing it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Writing band names on your schoolbag...

I remember a buddy who had a canvas bag with Status Quo written on it. During the hunger strike of '81 he converted it to Political Status Quo.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

guess mine would be building sandcastles on the golden strand

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