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By *iew OP   Man
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

Do kids still say that when they knock on their mates door...

what fond memories from your childhood do you have.

Remember playing rounders in a big field opposite our house..

seems a long time ago...

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

All join on for...

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

I should have "is xxxxxx coming out to play?" as my doorbell tune as it's mostly kids ringing my bell!

Only yesterday I was reminiscing about my childhood. Where all my pals and I would leap on imaginary horses, slap our rumps, say gee up...... and ride off along the banks of the burn with sticks to round up our 'steers'

In reality the steers were rats and yet not one of us got bitten and we all had a hoot of a time wrangling!

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By *iew OP   Man
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

and we used to jump off an old rickety bridge into the River Lune, well it was called the beck.

Health and Safety today would faint.

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

kick the can and red rover

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By *iew OP   Man
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn


"kick the can and red rover"

whats red rover katy? x

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

two rows of people , and you send 1 person from your side to break through other group (all linked arms)if u got through u went back to ur team , if not u got kept on the other side

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

u would chant , red rover , red rover send (katy ) over

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By *iew OP   Man
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn


"u would chant , red rover , red rover send (katy ) over"

might be a nice ice breaker at the next social

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

i can see that workin, what about tie to chair and flog?? not a child hood game but 1 i enjoy now hahahaha

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

Oh crikey!!! Bit of a mind blast to me ......seems such a long time ago ...I`m 49 And I feel I`ve lived several lifetimes since the innocence of my childhood ....thats my overiding memory: innocence..and playing ......out the door at 6 in the morning, in fer lunch and back out again till dusk.....

Saturday morning pictures

daisy chains for girlfriends

fishing with sea rods in ponds

oh ...reflection eh !!!

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

'top reck' - it was a play park at the top of a big grassy hill.

Also sledging down said hill on bin bags/sleds/anything that slid haha.

'dead mans hill' - a random hill down the 'bottom fields' which was _umoured to be some sort of burial ground.

Oh and a little stream, also down the 'bottom fields' where, if we were brave enough to walk past the horses, we used to go tadpoling and dam building.

Those were the days, before we knew that 2020 and diamond white existed

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By *empnbunkCouple
over a year ago

south coast

i remember as a kiddie goin fishing at 6 in morning hitchhiking to river(8miles away) with all my fishing gear and not returning til about 9 or 10 at night all in the days long b4 mobile phones can u imagine letting your 12/13 yr old do that now

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

With you on being out all day and travelling miles away from home ...exploring ....

The tradegy of modern life for me is the prevelance of irrational fear in our society ...how it dominates it and pervades every aspect of peoples and societies approach to life ......stultifying and regressive ...

Statisically its no more dangerous today then when I was a nipper ....Our media loves to scare, we as humans are transfixed by fear and the big bad wolf ...we even need one ,it could be argued ......

So grateful for my childhood ....and pity many kids fer the lack of theirs ....

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By *iew OP   Man
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

Hot Vimto in a little cafe in Morecambe.

Mostly rainy days .... thats why hot

sheer bliss

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

There was almost always a "haunted house" nearby and we used to dare each other to get as close to the windows as possible without running away screaming

oH and on tha back of the haunted house thing,ouiji boards..........had many hrs of scary fun with those

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By *iew OP   Man
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

and the ghost train at the fair...

was really scary..

till you realised it was bits of rags pinned to the ceiling

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By *irtyGirlWoman
over a year ago

Edinburgh

View... are ya coming out to play?!

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By *iew OP   Man
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn


"View... are ya coming out to play?! "

yes.......

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

My Grandad finding me in the rabbit hutch asleep with the long eared critter, whilst my parents were scouring the neighbourhood for me....mirthful glee

And forests....always had a den ....we`d meet up with our cowboy pistols, action man regalia, a pen knife, summat outa dads toolbox and make merry on our pushbikes

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By *iew OP   Man
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

or a bit of rope from a tree branch and would swing till your hands were red raw.

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By *ll of a QuiverCouple
over a year ago

Douglas

Playing Britsh Bulldog with my friends in the park.

A few of us also used to sneak onto the local golf course in the evenings to play a few holes.

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

i want to go out n play

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


"Playing Britsh Bulldog with my friends in the park.

A few of us also used to sneak onto the local golf course in the evenings to play a few holes. "

Are we still talking golf?

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By *andKCouple
over a year ago

Norfolk

will someone come and ask me out to play please?

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


"With you on being out all day and travelling miles away from home ...exploring ....

The tradegy of modern life for me is the prevelance of irrational fear in our society ...how it dominates it and pervades every aspect of peoples and societies approach to life ......stultifying and regressive ...

Statisically its no more dangerous today then when I was a nipper ....Our media loves to scare, we as humans are transfixed by fear and the big bad wolf ...we even need one ,it could be argued ......

So grateful for my childhood ....and pity many kids fer the lack of theirs ...."

My son was sitting just 30 minutes ago playing on his xbox kinect, the doorbell went, two pals asking if he was coming out to play.

After a debate about how cold it is and can the sea really freeze they are racing down to the beach to investigate.

One of the beauties of living in a small village is everyone knows everyone else's kids, we feed them watch over them and encourage them to get out and about or play in our homes.

They spend their summers on the beach or in the park, childhood lives long in this village.

Be back in five..... they are all back freezing cold and needing hot juice. xxx

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

putting bits of cardboard and a clothes peg on the back wheel of our pushbike .......clickety clack !!!

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By *ll of a QuiverCouple
over a year ago

Douglas


"Playing Britsh Bulldog with my friends in the park.

A few of us also used to sneak onto the local golf course in the evenings to play a few holes.

Are we still talking golf?"

Maybe !

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


"u would chant , red rover , red rover send (katy ) over"

i remember that too and kick the tin

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

yippee!!!...sounds fun .....beachcombing hahaha .......

Ah...yer dom`t feel the weather as a kid ...jeez!!!

Good for you tho , and yes small communities do have a benefit I guess!!

A friend of mine encourages her kids outside, they`ve been taught to be aware .be polite to people ...don`t get involved with strangers,again be polite, boundaries really!!!.......they`re 8/11...a boy and girl respectively ......a wonderful pair of kids ...scabs, rosy cheeked,and very adept socially....

We live in a medium sized community ...worth saying some of the neighbours look askance at her approach but I admire her resolve to rear her kids as she shes fit ....

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By *iew OP   Man
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

sitting changing the clothes on my Cindy.

ffs, meant Action Man...

yeah the camouflage outfits in a dull deary green and no glitter

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

I can't really describe this game with out it sounding really dodgy....but did anyone else play a game where you put a tennis ball in a pair of tights?

not while you were wearing them?

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By *etillanteWoman
over a year ago

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"I can't really describe this game with out it sounding really dodgy....but did anyone else play a game where you put a tennis ball in a pair of tights?

not while you were wearing them?

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did something with a tennis ball, but in stockings, used to bounce it up and down and against the wall are we talking the same thing?

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


"I can't really describe this game with out it sounding really dodgy....but did anyone else play a game where you put a tennis ball in a pair of tights?

not while you were wearing them?

did something with a tennis ball, but in stockings, used to bounce it up and down and against the wall are we talking the same thing?"

yes thats the one...used to drive everyone mad with it,including my mum who had no tights left

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By *etillanteWoman
over a year ago

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We have a playground near to us and late at night after it snowed, my cousin and I went down the slides, got a wet bum, but we cared not a jot. Btw she is 60+

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

Being cruel to frogs and hunting birds with catapults .....not our finest hour

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By *etillanteWoman
over a year ago

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"I can't really describe this game with out it sounding really dodgy....but did anyone else play a game where you put a tennis ball in a pair of tights?

not while you were wearing them?

did something with a tennis ball, but in stockings, used to bounce it up and down and against the wall are we talking the same thing?

yes thats the one...used to drive everyone mad with it,including my mum who had no tights left

"

Once did it with a brand new pair, my mum was not impressed as she was going out that night

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By *arambarMan
over a year ago

swindon

I remember using jumpers for goal posts. Now I'm a parent I understand why my Mum used to shout at me for doing that.

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By *ola cubesMan
over a year ago

coatbridge

going into any house on street for a piece n jam lol never happen now

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

chinese stingers...... still not sure what the rules were but I think the idea of the game was to try and hurt/maim/legally kill someone with a football......

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead


"I remember using jumpers for goal posts. Now I'm a parent I understand why my Mum used to shout at me for doing that."

ooooh... heads and volleys......

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

breaking into an old air raid shelter, convinced we were gona find treasure.......

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

building tree huts with my mates , cricket in the street..if we hit the ball into a garden it was six and out, ant bat would would suffice, a tennis ball and a tomato box...

sad how the world appears to have become less child friendly

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By *arambarMan
over a year ago

swindon

Hahaha, I remember playing cricket - but only if it had been on telly that day.

Same with tennis. During Wimbledon we'd play it all the time, drawing a tennis court in the close where I lived. Never played it for the rest of the year, of course... just during the 2 weeks that Wimbledon was on TV.

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

A front door key tied with much gusto round my neck and watching Whacky Races with my Dad, sipping a can of shandy........and the memories ........flow like a babbling brook....

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By *iew OP   Man
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

thank you all... I have had a lovely afternoon remembering the good old days

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

And when fights broke out or arguements ,,,

My mom shouting "go and play up your own end"

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By *iew OP   Man
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn


"And when fights broke out or arguements ,,,

My mom shouting "go and play up your own end" "

thats a great one... I can hear my mum now.

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

Thanks fer the topic View ...certainly opened up some memories I hadn`t thought of in years ...interesting...and nostalgic...and how the fuck did I end up here kinda moments hahaha....

ps ...I wanted to be astronaut....

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

Oh i do remember jublies

Big orange triangles of ice , could suck on them all day.

You can get them now but they tiny.

And a little triange paper bag filled with kaylie ( not sure of spelling)

Stick ya finger in and suck

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By *obletonMan
over a year ago

A Home Among The Woodland Creatures


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Statisically its no more dangerous today than when I was a nipper ....Our media loves to scare, we as humans are transfixed by fear and the big bad wolf ...we even need one ,it could be argued ......

"

I was about to say exactly the same thing!

being a kid has become so needlessly controlled and sanitised

its a shame

I blame the Daily Mail ............. for everything ever

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

Thunder and Lightning...

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

tut tut I'm telling you have named and shamed and thats not allowed lol

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

my jaw drops when I hear some peeps speak about their kids ......cotton wool et al......really scary how ideas can slip into the public consciousness....

It does real harm to kids in my own humble opinion, risk is beneficial to life ....and the journey into adultlife...

Themessage is evertwhere you look tho , isn`t it ?

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

I remember learning as a child that it wasn't until you looked at ants through a magnifying glass on a summers day that you realised how often they spontaneously combust

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By *edhotminxWoman
over a year ago

Turn left at the Singing Ringing Tree

Going with my two brothers to a local junk shop, buying four old pram wheels, knocking up a cart and riding it down the steep hill beside our house. Luckily cars were a rarity then, because the only brakes we had were our feet!

Watching the cat play with huge stag beetles, rehoming the newts that came into our garden back to the local steam. Sadly I haven't seen either for a good 25 yrs - and this was in what is now termed Greater London.

Building dens in the woods near to us, and finding some very dodgy magazines in one of them. lol, also finding some polaroid pics of a room full of naked people doing naughty things. Funny how fast they disappeared when I took them home to show my parents!

Finding my dad's playing cards from his time in the Merchant Navy - each card had a naked Asian lady on it. lol, they disappeared too, never to be seen again.

Ah happy memories.

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

Playing on bombsites,scrumping,knock down ginger,spangles,entertainment from an upside down calculator,clackers,clangers,penny singles (always No.60)susan stranks,shari lewis & lambchop,crobies,harringtons,wimpy

I could go on all day

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

All those communal games that the neighbourhood kids all joined in ave dissappeared, least round here!!

A change in social history methinks.....

Oh!!! erm ....lighting fires and scarpering

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

spangles i remember my mum knitting jumpers for me and my 2 brothers we looked like spangles but she never lost us at the navy day lol and thinking about knitting my mum use to have a knitting machine many an afternoon we would spend pushing the handle back and forth us kids were amazed at how it worked

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


"Do kids still say that when they knock on their mates door...

what fond memories from your childhood do you have.

Remember playing rounders in a big field opposite our house..

seems a long time ago... "

Mmm call me cynical but they probably say now summat like

Outta me way fuck face me and Shaun have a game planned on the xbox so go make some butties and a drink fa us xx

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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago

near the sounds of the wimborne quarter jack!


"putting bits of cardboard and a clothes peg on the back wheel of our pushbike .......clickety clack !!!"

And putting it too close to the valve holder and it letting the tyre down!

In my road, we used to play cricket using the grass box from my Dad`s mower for a wicket. Bat`s were usually two bits of wood nailed together. One family a couple of doors away were tennis fans and used to get the chalk out and draw their court on the road and have their games. It was VERY unusual for us to be interrupted by traffic!

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

Never had that kind of fun, as my parents were very strict.

Play, what play?!

Hence I loved it when I went to school here and away from my parents, FREEDOM!

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By *empnbunkCouple
over a year ago

south coast


"Being cruel to frogs and hunting birds with catapults .....not our finest hour "

was better with air pistols n rifles ohh the fun we had lol

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By *etillanteWoman
over a year ago

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Holding Jumble sales on the street outside your house

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

That must of been tough!!

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By *etillanteWoman
over a year ago

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"That must of been tough!!"

Nah I lived on a gable end

thats the end of a terraced street for non northerners lol

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


"That must of been tough!!

Nah I lived on a gable end

thats the end of a terraced street for non northerners lol"

Terraced Housing? How Common!"

A. Southerner

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By *etillanteWoman
over a year ago

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"That must of been tough!!

Nah I lived on a gable end

thats the end of a terraced street for non northerners lol

Terraced Housing? How Common!"

A. Southerner"

Hey nowt wrong wi bein a common northerner

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

ah!!! haha ..I`ve been here 2 days and figuring whats with the doobry buttons....that was mean`t for Pearl Necklace, my apologies...I`ll try the quote button lol.....

Nice memory tho ....yes...I remember my first footy boots were 2nd hand from a street table

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By *etillanteWoman
over a year ago

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"ah!!! haha ..I`ve been here 2 days and figuring whats with the doobry buttons....that was mean`t for Pearl Necklace, my apologies...I`ll try the quote button lol.....

Nice memory tho ....yes...I remember my first footy boots were 2nd hand from a street table"

Street table is that posh southern for a Jumble Sale lol

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

next to the chemical loo...

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

No....lol....didn`t you `ave peeps who just put a table outside the door,with odds n sods on it to make abit of pin money?......kinda like a garage sale fer us that didn`t `ave em !!!

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By *etillanteWoman
over a year ago

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"No....lol....didn`t you `ave peeps who just put a table outside the door,with odds n sods on it to make abit of pin money?......kinda like a garage sale fer us that didn`t `ave em !!! "

exactly, a jumble sale lol

Hell the north south divide

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

Wet leather footballs.....thud!!

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By *etillanteWoman
over a year ago

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Go carts made with crates and old pram wheels

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


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exactly, a jumble sale lol

Hell the north south divide "

A mingling of minds and colloquial verbiage

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

Hey.....yippee!!!....I can quote!!! puffs chest !!!

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


"No....lol....didn`t you `ave peeps who just put a table outside the door,with odds n sods on it to make abit of pin money?......kinda like a garage sale fer us that didn`t `ave em !!!

exactly, a jumble sale lol

Hell the north south divide "

its great down south

even the tramps drink Magners

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By *umourCouple
over a year ago

Rushden


"No....lol....didn`t you `ave peeps who just put a table outside the door,with odds n sods on it to make abit of pin money?......kinda like a garage sale fer us that didn`t `ave em !!! "

I have been reading this thread and it occurs to me that I may well have found my long lost twin! (that I didn't know that I had ) You, Dave have brought back memories that evoke some strange emotions and a desire to "go back"! But of course we can't...

Our kids are now 27 & 29, but we never restricted them because we remembered what our childhoods were like. Our Daughter (E) used to cycle three miles to go see her mates after we moved to the other side of town, she was 10!

We arrived home one day and our son had sold tickets to his mates so they could sit on the balcony and watch our daughters friends in the pool!

Another time Mrs R arrived home to find a chap aged 18 with no trousers on and our Daughter was drying them. He had fallen in the pool and it never occurred to her that it would look strange (she was 15) But both were streetwise and no one messed with E because our son was lookin out for her...

They had all the fun we had... We even found out that aged 15 and 17, they skinny dipped in the sea with about 30 other "kids" at a holiday park in Cornwall! We were horrified, but secretly pleased that they had presence of mind to look out for each other...

No regrets for anything here...

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By *unterslickCouple
over a year ago

tullamore


"Thunder and Lightning...

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was just scrolling down looking for someone that said it,was the best game ever invented,,we had a neighbour wed do it to,and hed chase us for hours,would even bring out a change of clothes with him to fool us,lol

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


"No....lol....didn`t you `ave peeps who just put a table outside the door,with odds n sods on it to make abit of pin money?......kinda like a garage sale fer us that didn`t `ave em !!!

exactly, a jumble sale lol

Hell the north south divide

its great down south

even the tramps drink Magners "

yeah..we`re not snobs down yer, just ask anyone...well anyone that matters!!

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

When you people throw insults at each other and enforce the north/south divide. Please spare a thought for our midland brothers who live in towns like Leicester and Derby and Wolverhampton

well maybe not Wolverhampton

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


"No....lol....didn`t you `ave peeps who just put a table outside the door,with odds n sods on it to make abit of pin money?......kinda like a garage sale fer us that didn`t `ave em !!!

I have been reading this thread and it occurs to me that I may well have found my long lost twin! (that I didn't know that I had ) You, Dave have brought back memories that evoke some strange emotions and a desire to "go back"! But of course we can't...

Our kids are now 27 & 29, but we never restricted them because we remembered what our childhoods were like. Our Daughter (E) used to cycle three miles to go see her mates after we moved to the other side of town, she was 10!

We arrived home one day and our son had sold tickets to his mates so they could sit on the balcony and watch our daughters friends in the pool!

Another time Mrs R arrived home to find a chap aged 18 with no trousers on and our Daughter was drying them. He had fallen in the pool and it never occurred to her that it would look strange (she was 15) But both were streetwise and no one messed with E because our son was lookin out for her...

They had all the fun we had... We even found out that aged 15 and 17, they skinny dipped in the sea with about 30 other "kids" at a holiday park in Cornwall! We were horrified, but secretly pleased that they had presence of mind to look out for each other...

No regrets for anything here... "

Bless you!! Yes, its been a day o reflection for me. Swapping memories with people here and Sharon,I`ve stumbled on things that have been buried for years..kinda reinforced my sense of self .....fascinating. But I feel this has been a odyssey provoked by View ...thanks should be his and others ....erm jeez!!

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

Mabye someone should start a thread on the homogenisation of British culture

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By *arambarMan
over a year ago

swindon


"Thunder and Lightning...

,,

was just scrolling down looking for someone that said it,was the best game ever invented,,we had a neighbour wed do it to,and hed chase us for hours,would even bring out a change of clothes with him to fool us,lol"

Never heard of it - well, in this context, I mean. What did it entail?

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By *empnbunkCouple
over a year ago

south coast

just had a long conversation with my 9yr old daughter before she went to bed about what it was like when i was 9 no dvds or vidoes no mobiles no remote controlls(how did u turn telly over?) only 3 chanels on telly no playstations wiis xboxs no computers laptops black n white portable tellys etc her query was well what did u do for fun answer we went out to play .... Even in winter dad ? Yep even then all day ...... WOW!!! was her reply

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

...I still say it.....

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By *empnbunkCouple
over a year ago

south coast

oh and also got a NO WAY when i explained we had to actually go over to the tv and press the button to change chanels when she asked about there bein no remotes lol

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

hahaha ...thats sweet!!!....

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham


"Do kids still say that when they knock on their mates door...

what fond memories from your childhood do you have.

Remember playing rounders in a big field opposite our house..

seems a long time ago... "

when we were little the kids used to come round and see if my dad was coming out to play lol

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


"Thunder and Lightning...

Never heard of it - well, in this context, I mean. What did it entail? "

Knocking on someones door and running like feck...

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham


"Thunder and Lightning...

Never heard of it - well, in this context, I mean. What did it entail?

Knocking on someones door and running like feck... "

you mean knock down ginger

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


"Thunder and Lightning...

Never heard of it - well, in this context, I mean. What did it entail?

Knocking on someones door and running like feck...

you mean knock down ginger "

Who you callin' Ginger...

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


"Thunder and Lightning...

Never heard of it - well, in this context, I mean. What did it entail?

Knocking on someones door and running like feck...

you mean knock down ginger "

we called it knock and run...bit of a hammerite game really!

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By *empnbunkCouple
over a year ago

south coast


"Thunder and Lightning...

Never heard of it - well, in this context, I mean. What did it entail?

Knocking on someones door and running like feck...

you mean knock down ginger

we called it knock and run...bit of a hammerite game really!"

Was called happy chappy here .... There was 1 guy who would chase us for miles lol he would never give up was brill needless to say his door was always first on the list

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


"Thunder and Lightning...

Never heard of it - well, in this context, I mean. What did it entail?

Knocking on someones door and running like feck...

you mean knock down ginger

we called it knock and run...bit of a hammerite game really!"

Nah... You dont need two coats...

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By *empnbunkCouple
over a year ago

south coast

ohh that reminds me of another game wee used to play ...... Take a bicycle pump and little red berries found on hedges jam said berry in hole of pump and fire them at peoples windows lol guess who's window was always first during that game .......lmao

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By *emima_puddlefuckCouple
over a year ago

hexham

I used to play nurse and nurse Behind the fuschia bush.

And yes kids still knock on our door and ask the lads if they are coming out to play.

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By *ensualfire88Man
over a year ago

Edinburgh


"Thunder and Lightning...

Never heard of it - well, in this context, I mean. What did it entail?

Knocking on someones door and running like feck...

you mean knock down ginger

we called it knock and run...bit of a hammerite game really!"

I think you mean 'Tap door run'.

Was awesome, SO scared and running SO fast, legs a blur, anyone fell, you left 'em...!

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By *emima_puddlefuckCouple
over a year ago

hexham


"Thunder and Lightning...

Never heard of it - well, in this context, I mean. What did it entail?

Knocking on someones door and running like feck...

you mean knock down ginger

we called it knock and run...bit of a hammerite game really!

I think you mean 'Tap door run'.

Was awesome, SO scared and running SO fast, legs a blur, anyone fell, you left 'em...!"

No its called nicky knocky nine doors!

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By *acquiesubWoman
over a year ago

birmingham

I remember L.O.N.D.O.N London, and polo, What's the time Mr Wolf all very similar but used to play for hours on the neighbours drive, and tennis over the 3 foot fence between us. and of course the obligatory Knock go Run.

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


"sitting changing the clothes on my Cindy.

ffs, meant Action Man...

yeah the camouflage outfits in a dull deary green and no glitter

"

Dolls were for rich kids! We used to buy Bunty, they had a paper doll on the back. We used to cut them out, draw around them and make whole families and their clothes etc. We kept them in a shoe box but only my sister Christine and I could play with them, the two younger ones could only watch.

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


"Thunder and Lightning...

Never heard of it - well, in this context, I mean. What did it entail?

Knocking on someones door and running like feck...

you mean knock down ginger "

you mean chickenelly

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

Knock Down Ginger

Cherry Knocking

Ding Dong Ditch

Doorbell Ditch

Knock and Nash

Knock'N'Run more

Knock and Run

knock a door run

Nicky-Knicky Nine-Doors - (From Canada)

Nicky-Knocky Nine-Doors

Nicky Knocky Hide Door

Thunder and Lightning

Knocky ido

Rat-atat-Ginger -

Chap door Runaway

knick-knock

klingelputz - Germany

Nick-nack

Bobby knocking

Belletje trek (Flemish)

Cotton knocking

Knick Knock Nanny

Postman's Knock (Australian)

Knock Knock Ginger

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By *randmrsfreakyCouple
over a year ago

alfreton near chesterfield

Hedge hopping was the best, the owners of the privots didnt think so though

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


"Hedge hopping was the best, the owners of the privots didnt think so though"

I used to love that. I still have the urge to do it now.

cue large twig in the eye

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

I remember making my first gocart with my grandad, pram wheels, all wood and bolts you steared it with your feet

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By *adcowWoman
over a year ago

kirkcaldy

i remember playing cowboys and indians hen a kid, jump onto horse and ride about- i liked being tied up even then lol

playing manhunt on the farm, hiding in the hayshed, climbing the nearest tree- till i fell 30ft onto verge beside a busy road , now i'm petrified of heights

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

Being so excited to get the free trinkets on comics .......Gawd....we lurved our comics on a Saturday morning ,in the sweet shop first thing, pushbikes scattered hither and tither outside....the kind old shopkeeper with twinkling eyes laughing us goodbye!

Halcyon days!

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


"Knock Down Ginger

Cherry Knocking

Ding Dong Ditch

Doorbell Ditch

Knock and Nash

Knock'N'Run more

Knock and Run

knock a door run

Nicky-Knicky Nine-Doors - (From Canada)

Nicky-Knocky Nine-Doors

Nicky Knocky Hide Door

Thunder and Lightning

Knocky ido

Rat-atat-Ginger -

Chap door Runaway

knick-knock

klingelputz - Germany

Nick-nack

Bobby knocking

Belletje trek (Flemish)

Cotton knocking

Knick Knock Nanny

Postman's Knock (Australian)

Knock Knock Ginger"
there seems to be a lot of knocking going on here

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