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Greatest memory of being young

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

Evening peeps, so what is the greatest/fondest memory of being young ?

To be fair it doesn’t seem long since I was young but my passport doesn’t agree with that

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By *reya73Woman
over a year ago

Whitley Bay

Endless imaginary, creative games and play with my brother and the kids on the street.. Playing out for hours, kicking about and only coming home to refuel.

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By *erDirtyRockstarMan
over a year ago

buckinghamshire

Going silly on BMX with my dudes in the sun

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


"Going silly on BMX with my dudes in the sun "

I remember being lucky enough to get a mongoose bmx as a young kid and just living on it trying to perfect the perfect bunny hop and all that went with it. Good on you and we are all in our 40s now which is scary/weird/very real haha

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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

Making tree houses

Eating plums of tree

Picking Blackberrys

Sliding down big hills with cardboard in winter

Carol singing

Guy collecting

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


"Endless imaginary, creative games and play with my brother and the kids on the street.. Playing out for hours, kicking about and only coming home to refuel. "

Oh that’s very similar and we had to use our minds to have fun and as you say be creative.

Coming home either because the light had gone or we got shouted at with the infamous words.....”tea is ready”

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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

Skiving school

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

Being outside almost all of the time... Blackberry picking, catching sticklebacks, trying to avoid being charged at by cows and days that lasted forever... Just always doing something!

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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

Eating sweets

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By *lex46TV/TS
over a year ago

Near Wells

Going camping in Cornwall or Wales usually 3 times a year with family and friends . The weather always seemed better when you are young.

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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

I had rollerskates

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

Sitting round the piano with my Grandad playing and us singing Christmas songs. Something which has been difficult to remember tonight and still in tears

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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

Oh the summers

I loved them

They were boiling

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By *erDirtyRockstarMan
over a year ago

buckinghamshire


"Going silly on BMX with my dudes in the sun "

Another universe I'm still backflipping those doubles at over 40. Ya know .. that one where firstly I could do a backflip and secondly being over 40 on a BMX is the mark of coming of age.

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By *erDirtyRockstarMan
over a year ago

buckinghamshire


"Going silly on BMX with my dudes in the sun

I remember being lucky enough to get a mongoose bmx as a young kid and just living on it trying to perfect the perfect bunny hop and all that went with it. Good on you and we are all in our 40s now which is scary/weird/very real haha "

Mongoose, yessss my dude lol

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

I had a shit childhood ..it was a good day if I didnt get a pasting

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


"Going silly on BMX with my dudes in the sun

I remember being lucky enough to get a mongoose bmx as a young kid and just living on it trying to perfect the perfect bunny hop and all that went with it. Good on you and we are all in our 40s now which is scary/weird/very real haha

Mongoose, yessss my dude lol"

Yep but my mate had a super tuff and that rocked but guess they are like rocking horse shite now.

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


"I had a shit childhood ..it was a good day if I didnt get a pasting "

Sorry to hear that pal and always hot an open ear if you need to tell someone. Forget how lucky I was to be fair.

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By *ultry SuccubusTV/TS
over a year ago

London

Lying on our back on our frontyard (with my brothers and sisters and 1 or 2 of our nephews) at night looking at the stars.

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

Apart from classic tv.

When it was over (being young)

J

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

The hope that one day the loneliness would stop.

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By *eenawMan
over a year ago

anywhere and everywhere

3 channels on the TV

Buying a 7inch or even better the album and listening to it for the 1st time

Charts on a Sunday night

No Mobile phones

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By *eyond PurityCouple
over a year ago

Lincolnshire

Kid - Half-penny sweets, No phones, Being outside until it got dark

Teenager - Channel 4 filth after 9pm, Teacher fantasies, Girls

I’ve just realised...I’m still a teenager

K

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By *nabelle21Woman
over a year ago

B38


"3 channels on the TV

Buying a 7inch or even better the album and listening to it for the 1st time

Charts on a Sunday night

No Mobile phones "

Ah yes,.charts on a Sunday..I was quite fond of a 12 inch

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By *ovegames42Man
over a year ago

london


"3 channels on the TV

Buying a 7inch or even better the album and listening to it for the 1st time

Charts on a Sunday night

No Mobile phones "

Recording the Sunday night charts on an old tape deck. While plashing around in the bath.

Trying to press the stop start / record button in time in between songs.

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

The few memories I have of my parents being together is a personal one but in general the fondest memories of being young are summer holiday television programmes like Why Don't You, the irony of a TV programme telling you to switch off the tv still makes me chuckle.

Another thing is when my Dad used to come home with the Christmas Radio and TV Times

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

The complete freedom of everything growing up that should be for kids in a safe loved envoirment.I wouldnt have swapped my childhood for nothing.

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By *umstibleMan
over a year ago

Colindale

Some of my best memories are from secondary school. Although it got a bit shitty towards the end, we had a lot of fun for a good 2 3 years at the start.

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

Not having to go to work and having zero responsibilities.. take me back!!

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

Eat,play,sleep and repeat

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

So many memories to choose;

Autumn time, walking with him down the myriad of lanes near our house with my little basket and collecting little bits I found interesting our pretty like leaves or stones. I can remember finding Acorn shells and my Dad telling me they were fairy hats, I searched for ages looking for those hats

Loved when it snowed, I can remember a terrible snow storm which shut the School and my Dad taking us up the lane and to the hilly fields with plastic sacks....We spent hours zipping down the hills on the sacks.

Living in the sticks we always had powercuts, loved it. Dad would wrap potatoes in foil and pop them in the grate, we'd eat them just with butter and cheese. We'd also make toast or crumpets. And eat them while Dad told us ghost stories, he had an amazing imagination and a great story telling skills

I can remember being tiny, in my Dad's arms at the beach, we were standing in the sea and a big wave came and knocked us both flying, I was not impressed

I can remember my elder Brother ignoring me, how dare he!! so as punishment I flushed his action man down the pan, trouble was it stuck and flooded the bathroom

His revenge was to come in while I was having a wee and push me down the toilet and flush shouting "the bog monster will get ya!"

That gave me a phobia of flushing toilets for years. I'd have to get Mum or Dad in to flush it for me

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


"So many memories to choose;

Autumn time, walking with him down the myriad of lanes near our house with my little basket and collecting little bits I found interesting our pretty like leaves or stones. I can remember finding Acorn shells and my Dad telling me they were fairy hats, I searched for ages looking for those hats

Loved when it snowed, I can remember a terrible snow storm which shut the School and my Dad taking us up the lane and to the hilly fields with plastic sacks....We spent hours zipping down the hills on the sacks.

Living in the sticks we always had powercuts, loved it. Dad would wrap potatoes in foil and pop them in the grate, we'd eat them just with butter and cheese. We'd also make toast or crumpets. And eat them while Dad told us ghost stories, he had an amazing imagination and a great story telling skills

I can remember being tiny, in my Dad's arms at the beach, we were standing in the sea and a big wave came and knocked us both flying, I was not impressed

I can remember my elder Brother ignoring me, how dare he!! so as punishment I flushed his action man down the pan, trouble was it stuck and flooded the bathroom

His revenge was to come in while I was having a wee and push me down the toilet and flush shouting "the bog monster will get ya!"

That gave me a phobia of flushing toilets for years. I'd have to get Mum or Dad in to flush it for me

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Beautiful to read

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


"So many memories to choose;

Autumn time, walking with him down the myriad of lanes near our house with my little basket and collecting little bits I found interesting our pretty like leaves or stones. I can remember finding Acorn shells and my Dad telling me they were fairy hats, I searched for ages looking for those hats

Loved when it snowed, I can remember a terrible snow storm which shut the School and my Dad taking us up the lane and to the hilly fields with plastic sacks....We spent hours zipping down the hills on the sacks.

Living in the sticks we always had powercuts, loved it. Dad would wrap potatoes in foil and pop them in the grate, we'd eat them just with butter and cheese. We'd also make toast or crumpets. And eat them while Dad told us ghost stories, he had an amazing imagination and a great story telling skills

I can remember being tiny, in my Dad's arms at the beach, we were standing in the sea and a big wave came and knocked us both flying, I was not impressed

I can remember my elder Brother ignoring me, how dare he!! so as punishment I flushed his action man down the pan, trouble was it stuck and flooded the bathroom

His revenge was to come in while I was having a wee and push me down the toilet and flush shouting "the bog monster will get ya!"

That gave me a phobia of flushing toilets for years. I'd have to get Mum or Dad in to flush it for me

Beautiful to read "

Thank you, was in tears writing it, I have so many wonderful memories

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By *tephTV67TV/TS
over a year ago

Cheshire

Collecting bonfires wood, storing it in my parents and friends parents backyards to stop it from being stolen. Then the night itself with black peas (it’s a northern thing) treacle toffee and hot Vimto.

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Out with mates on bikes or playing football. I was always outside.

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By *moothshaftMan
over a year ago

Coventry

I was an avid tree climber 50 years ago. It was my job to put the rope swing up, 40 feet over the river, once attached, I'd shimmy down the rope and the fun would begin!

The summer days went on forever.

Puberty arrived, along with the girls, and the swing stood still.

Then the motorbikes came, and they're still here!

I'd give anything for a tardis and do it all again.

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By *orthern StarsCouple
over a year ago

Durham

Playing outside for hours on end, riding our bikes, making send, playing at the park.

Also washing the pots with my Dad and singing songs and chatting and laughing as we did them.

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

Standing on the bridge in Looe, Cornwall and looking out at the town and the sea.

Then going back about 35 years later and it being just as remembered

Goosebumps

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By *orthern StarsCouple
over a year ago

Durham


"Playing outside for hours on end, riding our bikes, making send, playing at the park.

Also washing the pots with my Dad and singing songs and chatting and laughing as we did them."

*Making dens

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

Not knowing anything, nor having too!

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

The day I discovered it wasn't just for urinating was a pretty epic time.

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By *innie The MinxWoman
over a year ago

Under the Duvet

The year it was really snowy and my dad made us a proper wooden sledge.

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

Pinching milk off doorsteps on a Saturday morning lol

Going into the woods near our street with an axe, just casually walking with and axe lol, spending all day making a fort

Playing proper games in the street

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

My first love (from afar) as thought she was out of my league and then she died and at the funeral her best friend she liked me but was to shy and didn't think I'd like her.

Hardest lesson learnt and now I'd rather approach someone and be knocked back that think what if.

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By *andybeachWoman
over a year ago

In the middle

Always being outside no matter what the weather

In the summer we’d throw an old sheet over the washing line and pin the corners down with a few bricks for a tent

If it was really hot we’d tie the watering can to the washing line and kept filling it up so we could have cool showers

Climbing trees and making dens in the woods, my brother was obsessed with making bow and arrows, catching minnows in the streams or fishing on the canal

So many good memories

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

Riding my bmx with mates (they are still mates ), drinking in the park ,out all day and a packed lunch left in the garden by my mum ..family days out and laughing so much ...

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

Finding northern soul and my football club

Both still a huge part of my life many many decades later and made and lost (r.i.p) many good friends along the way

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By *untocum1000TV/TS
over a year ago

newmarket


"Oh the summers

I loved them

They were boiling "
and lasted for ever ...

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

Being at center parcs on the river rapids with my dad stands out in my memory

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull


"Standing on the bridge in Looe, Cornwall and looking out at the town and the sea.

Then going back about 35 years later and it being just as remembered

Goosebumps "

The joys of looe and the banjo pier, mum took me, I took my kids and I guess they'll take their children

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By *innie The MinxWoman
over a year ago

Under the Duvet

Watching my mum dig up potatoes for the first time when I was about 3.

My tiny mind was blown!

Had to go get my friend Danny from across the road to witness this amazing phenomenon.

Food that came from under the actual ground like treasure!

Still makes me smile now.

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

So many people with happy memories I don't remember much just know it was shit

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

My enthusiasm and lust for life.

And laughing - really laughing until I cried.

I miss that - nothing is ever that funny anymore.

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull


"My enthusiasm and lust for life.

And laughing - really laughing until I cried.

I miss that - nothing is ever that funny anymore."

You've just got to regress now and again and do the things that used to make you happy

Climb trees, play grand national through neighbours gardens, play knock and run

Life's short and smiling and giggling is important

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

Playing football in the street with my friends.

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By *urious_Female89Woman
over a year ago

great yarmouth

Cycling, running everywhere, eating sweets (no longer have a sweet tooth!)

Not having a care in the world, being so full of energy, everything fascinates you.. when I get excited by little things it reminds me of my youth

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By *untimes6969Man
over a year ago

Newcastle upon Tyne

So many happy memories from everyone - carefree and fun, mainly outdoors! We certainly had the best of it - happy memories!

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

games of football in the park where the bigger boys would join in and at times it would be 20 a side. No corners, throw-ins when the ball went into a flower bed or garden and the game ended when it was too dark to see.

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By *SATCMan
over a year ago

Essex

Hanging out with all my mate's in the park for hours on end then bowling back to Mum and Dad's house to the lodge/game's room. Many fun times were had lol

Oh to be 13-17 again

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

Endless hours of skateboarding, and going to competitions, winning my first one and skateboarding for the county .

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

Best memory of being young, not having a care in the world, how adult life ruins that for you lol

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By *andyMinx_tvTV/TS
over a year ago

Leeds

Playing "Kick Can And H'oppit" on an unmade road full of puddles.

Climbing every tree in the local park (I was sensible and wore trousers then).

Being chased by Bus Conductors for being a "cheeky little twat".

All good

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

I beat a guy with a football boot once

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

Going to my Grandparents on a Saturday with my brother and sister.

We have lunch, was always fish n chips with homemade chips.

We'd eat in the kitchen on a table as my Grandad listened to those old scripted comedies on the 'wireless'

He would tease us, ask us stupid questions like "how many shillings are in a pound" etc

We'd go for a walk down the river to 'the fishermans seat' via woodlands, we'd climb trees and play football.

Back to the house and my Grandma made homemade bread, we made 'bread men' yummy.

Parents picked us up later in the evening, we'd have tea and I'd have a sore stomach from eating too much throughout the day.

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

Some beautiful memories from everyone and thank you all for your participation. The amazing thing is it stills live so fresh in my memory of childhood and those certain moments and no doubt will always be that way.

For all those less fortunate than most of us then I hope the present has made up for the past.

Happy weekend people and always hear to talk nonsense so chat soon.

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