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What things brings you back to your childhood.....

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

Got the idea from Provocative's 'Brothers in Arms' thread but what things brings you back to your childhood and gives you happy memories?

Whenever i smell a coal fire it brings me back to the holidays i had in Mull visiting my aunts cottage. She had a roaring fire and i used to throw things in it and watch it burn.

I'm heading up in 2 weeks time for a weekend to relax and seek out peace and quiet.

Happy memories.

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By *etillanteWoman
over a year ago

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Milky coffee, not the stuff you get in Costa Coffee and Starbucks, home made boiled milk pured onto instant coffee.

My mum used to take a flask of it to work every morning and also left some fr me. Can remember getting up and sitting in a rocking chair drinking it. Hell I miss that

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

For me its the smell of BBQ which reminds me of many happy big family gatherings.

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

Wagonwheels......the chocolate biscuit that is.

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

the smell of plasticene. Always had loads of that in Primary school and you'd open the box and this smell would waft out. In the end when it all got mixed up you always had one big lump of brown plasticene

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

when i go nto a sweet sop and they are still selling the kind of sweets they sold when i was a kid, like barley twists and cola cubes and rhubarb and custards (which were gross) and, my favourites, aniseed balls (guess i've always had a thing for sucking balls!)

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

Ready brek xx

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


"when i go nto a sweet sop and they are still selling the kind of sweets they sold when i was a kid, like barley twists and cola cubes and rhubarb and custards (which were gross) and, my favourites, aniseed balls (guess i've always had a thing for sucking balls!)"

There is a shop in Renfrew along from the swimming baths which sells all the retro sweets which you mentioned.

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


"

There is a shop in Renfrew along from the swimming baths which sells all the retro sweets which you mentioned."

there's also one in inveraray...which is just a great drive out!

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


"

There is a shop in Renfrew along from the swimming baths which sells all the retro sweets which you mentioned.

there's also one in inveraray...which is just a great drive out!"

Am heading up there soon, may take a pop in.

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

just thought of another one... and was thinking nof Scottish Highlands whcih made me think of Austrian Alps (I know what I mean, lol)

CHildhood memories include sitting on top of a mountain (and I mean mountain at 9000 feet plus) and drinking frsh milk -never tasted so good again til I found Cravendales filtered stuff.

Another happy memory - and a lovely happy thread

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


"just thought of another one... and was thinking nof Scottish Highlands whcih made me think of Austrian Alps (I know what I mean, lol)

CHildhood memories include sitting on top of a mountain (and I mean mountain at 9000 feet plus) and drinking frsh milk -never tasted so good again til I found Cravendales filtered stuff.

Another happy memory - and a lovely happy thread "

Ooo ooo Milky bars ya just reminded me xx

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


"just thought of another one... and was thinking nof Scottish Highlands whcih made me think of Austrian Alps (I know what I mean, lol)

CHildhood memories include sitting on top of a mountain (and I mean mountain at 9000 feet plus) and drinking frsh milk -never tasted so good again til I found Cravendales filtered stuff.

Another happy memory - and a lovely happy thread "

The Highlands is a wonderful part of the country. The scenery is breathtaking and its a great destination for a holiday or a wee break to get away from the hussle and bussle of your daily day to day life.

Once i sober up today i may take a drive up to a place called The Rest and be Thankful and just sit in peace and quiet for a while. Only takes an hour to get there by car.

Google it and admire the view.

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By *ushroom7Man
over a year ago

Bradford

M1, M62

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


"just thought of another one... and was thinking nof Scottish Highlands whcih made me think of Austrian Alps (I know what I mean, lol)

CHildhood memories include sitting on top of a mountain (and I mean mountain at 9000 feet plus) and drinking frsh milk -never tasted so good again til I found Cravendales filtered stuff.

Another happy memory - and a lovely happy thread

The Highlands is a wonderful part of the country. The scenery is breathtaking and its a great destination for a holiday or a wee break to get away from the hussle and bussle of your daily day to day life.

Once i sober up today i may take a drive up to a place called The Rest and be Thankful and just sit in peace and quiet for a while. Only takes an hour to get there by car.

Google it and admire the view. "

I love that place. The valley is stunning...amazing that's its right on my doorstep (well...45 mins but that's closer than glasgow!). I love living here!

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


"just thought of another one... and was thinking nof Scottish Highlands whcih made me think of Austrian Alps (I know what I mean, lol)

CHildhood memories include sitting on top of a mountain (and I mean mountain at 9000 feet plus) and drinking frsh milk -never tasted so good again til I found Cravendales filtered stuff.

Another happy memory - and a lovely happy thread

The Highlands is a wonderful part of the country. The scenery is breathtaking and its a great destination for a holiday or a wee break to get away from the hussle and bussle of your daily day to day life.

Once i sober up today i may take a drive up to a place called The Rest and be Thankful and just sit in peace and quiet for a while. Only takes an hour to get there by car.

Google it and admire the view.

I love that place. The valley is stunning...amazing that's its right on my doorstep (well...45 mins but that's closer than glasgow!). I love living here!"

Actually come to think of it, the Rest may be closed due to the police presence during the week regarding the missing female??

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


"just thought of another one... and was thinking nof Scottish Highlands whcih made me think of Austrian Alps (I know what I mean, lol)

CHildhood memories include sitting on top of a mountain (and I mean mountain at 9000 feet plus) and drinking frsh milk -never tasted so good again til I found Cravendales filtered stuff.

Another happy memory - and a lovely happy thread

The Highlands is a wonderful part of the country. The scenery is breathtaking and its a great destination for a holiday or a wee break to get away from the hussle and bussle of your daily day to day life.

Once i sober up today i may take a drive up to a place called The Rest and be Thankful and just sit in peace and quiet for a while. Only takes an hour to get there by car.

Google it and admire the view. "

That may well eb on the bagenda whenwe are visiting Scotland later in the year - it is an amazing place with some super people

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By *leasureDomeMan
over a year ago

all over the place

Whenever i go to an airfield and smell the light aircraft in the hangar,reminds me of when i used to play on a disused airfield as a kid where they had made and tested spitfires..so evocative

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

White dog poo!

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


"White dog poo!"

Now that is a rarity in itself these days!

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham


"White dog poo!"

i was just about to say eurgh but now i come to think of it you are right!!! lol

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


"White dog poo!

i was just about to say eurgh but now i come to think of it you are right!!! lol

"

Goes along with picking out molten tar from between cobbles with a lolly stick!

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

making 'perfume' in empty pop bottles using rose petals and water

using the seed pods of roses as itching powder

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By *leasureDomeMan
over a year ago

all over the place


"making 'perfume' in empty pop bottles using rose petals and water

using the seed pods of roses as itching powder "

blimey i had forgot the neighbours kids doing that ...made pop with kayli and water too ...yuk

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


"making 'perfume' in empty pop bottles using rose petals and water

using the seed pods of roses as itching powder "

LOL i remember i used to put sugar in water hoping to make a fizzy drink

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By *ushroom7Man
over a year ago

Bradford

unravelling an old golf ball, tying the elastic across the main road between two trees and waiting, YES waiting, for a car to pass.

oh what simple pleasures

what? what was last? and whats this alzh.........

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


"White dog poo! "

we used this as chalk when we played hop scotch

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


"making 'perfume' in empty pop bottles using rose petals and water

using the seed pods of roses as itching powder "

you are wicked, girl..;-)

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

playing games of sixty sixty in and laughing cos if you said it funny it sounded like sexty

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

scrumping

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham


"White dog poo!

we used this as chalk when we played hop scotch "

ok now i am going to say eurgh

EURGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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By *ushroom7Man
over a year ago

Bradford

chumping

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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville

Flying saucer sweeties

the smell of freesias

going to mass

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By *ushroom7Man
over a year ago

Bradford

going to maths

and physics

and .... you get the picture

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

playing football and cricket in the street, about 20 a side

and playing the girls at rounders coz it was like baseball

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

kiss chase

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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville


"kiss chase "
oooooh i used to play that

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


"kiss chase oooooh i used to play that "

I'm not too quick on me feet anymore, so you'd have a good chance of catchin me

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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville


"kiss chase oooooh i used to play that

I'm not too quick on me feet anymore, so you'd have a good chance of catchin me "
yeah but what happens when i got ya and i kissed ya ?

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

warm orange squash. we would take a bottle out with us in the morning of diluted orange squash but by the time we drank it the sun had always made it warm

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham


"

chumping

"

whats chumping???

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire


"making 'perfume' in empty pop bottles using rose petals and water

using the seed pods of roses as itching powder "

we used to do both those things but we used the inside of rosehips to make the itching powder

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


"kiss chase oooooh i used to play that

I'm not too quick on me feet anymore, so you'd have a good chance of catchin me :-yeah but what happens when i got ya and i kissed ya ? "

suppose I'd let ya catch me again

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham


"making 'perfume' in empty pop bottles using rose petals and water

using the seed pods of roses as itching powder

we used to do both those things but we used the inside of rosehips to make the itching powder"

think thats what i meant, big round things??

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire


"making 'perfume' in empty pop bottles using rose petals and water

using the seed pods of roses as itching powder

we used to do both those things but we used the inside of rosehips to make the itching powder

Yea big and orangy red and when you opened them they had little hairy seeds in them lol

think thats what i meant, big round things??"

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By *ushroom7Man
over a year ago

Bradford


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chumping

whats chumping???"

chumping is , or rather was, kids going round the streets and fields looking for spare wood for bonfire night

you don't see it nowadays

loads of shale heaps in my day, rubbish dumps at the base of each , oh what joy

regards

stig

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

tying old bed springs to our feet, making dens in the spinney out back, wood pidgeons, the joker at school that would blow the fuses or set of the fire alarms or (at worse) chase kids around the playground with a used jonny on the end of a stick, barr bottles here you got 2p back for returnsies (used to save them up) hapenny sweets, panda shandy (0.002 alcohol, but we thought it was more and acted like it was more), the ice cream van and the cider lolly or juicy lucy, how summer holidays felt too long but ended too quick, top trumps, plimsols, recording sundays top 40 onto cassette and trying to cut out the dj for a seemless lead in (mission impossible), wonder woman, sreet hawk, airwolf, why don't you, ra ra skirts, sniggering at frankie goes to hollywood lyrics, mullet hair cuts, the rat tail,secret crushes that usually ended up in punching each other! croggies, walking forever across fields, streams and roads looking for some adventure and not realising that that was the adventure

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

my mother bawling get suncream on or you will roast and be a sorry lassie the nite.... that all came floodin back today!!

makin a tent out of blankets

playin rounders in the street (try it now and every neighbour be out bawling incase their car gets hit)

kerbie

goin to the burn for minnons

climbing trees

diggin in the old dump for treasure

rhubarb and a cup of sugar ( really i am a tribute to nhs dentistry!)

being out for hrs durin the day and no one comin lookin for you

xx

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