FabSwingers.com forum: The happy nostalgia thread!

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

Happy things from your childhood ... a list!

For starters, football on the village playing field, jumpers for goalposts, until it went too dark to see or the person who’s ball it was had to get home for their tea..

What else ..?

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

Picnics in the garden with my best friend and playing kerbsie, jacks and hopscotch with her on warm days.

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

Playing manhunt spending 3 hours in a bush covered in dirt for cammo

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By *abs..Woman
over a year ago

Jam sandwiches, playing British bulldog, cycling off to the woods for hours a day. Collecting frogs

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

My mum

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

"Jam sandwiches, playing British bulldog, cycling off to the woods for hours a day. Collecting frogs

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ooo frog catching yes

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

Seeing a pair of trainers with the laces tied together wrapped around the phone line above the street

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

Giving backies on my push bike, always taking a packed lunch and playing mammoth games of bulldog or pompom with every kid on the estate! Then going home with gravel in your cut knees for your mum to force you into a detol bath

Aaah, those were the days!

Peach x

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

Rope swings over the brook,

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

Going rabbiting for the first time learning how to hunt sking and gut my tea before cooking on the camp fire on the moors before climbing in the tent and freezinv for the night

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

Pretending I was an Olympic gymnast using the garden wall as my beam. Playing marbles, I loved my Dobbers. My mum taking me to ballet and tap competitions and making all my outfits

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By *abs..Woman
over a year ago

"Pretending I was an Olympic gymnast using the garden wall as my beam. Playing marbles, I loved my Dobbers. My mum taking me to ballet and tap competitions and making all my outfits

I used to love marbles! I’ve still got some somewhere

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

Hanging off a tree in my undies doing tarzans call

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

Ah some of these are so familiar! Yes! Great memories!

Taking a jam jar down to the local river, catching minnows then wondering why they died a few days later!

Wandering across the fields for hours without a care in the world!! I’d never let young ‘uns do that today but back in the day it seemed so acceptable!

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

Banana sandwiches

Pepe le pew

The witches hat roundabout

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By *iss SJWoman
over a year ago

Hull

"Hanging off a tree in my undies doing tarzans call"

The OP was about your childhood, not what you do most Sunday afternoons nowadays

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

"Hanging off a tree in my undies doing tarzans call

The OP was about your childhood, not what you do most Sunday afternoons nowadays

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rumbled

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

"Hanging off a tree in my undies doing tarzans call

The OP was about your childhood, not what you do most Sunday afternoons nowadays

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cant do the call no more tho voice broke

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

Playing "on top of old smokey" on my Major Morgan.

Melting tarmac in the summer and "fishing" for minnows.

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

Hours spent trying to get my stuff on swapshop

The letters I'd write daily to companies asking for free stuff! Writing fan letters! We had a shop locally that sold different writing paper in individual sheets, some were perfumed for love letters!

Peach x

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By *opping_candyWoman
over a year ago

West Yorkshire

I miss the old playground at my local park, narrow slide 30ft high with concrete either side, those were the days

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

Hot wiring cars, back in the day when you could do that to a car!

Glue sniffing, perving my best mates mum and finding random torn up pornos over the park. God I love Essex

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

Cycling between 3-10 miles to see mates.

Most kids want a lift for the 500 yards trip to the shops now

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By *ryst In IsoldeWoman
over a year ago

your imagination

Sandy bottles of orange pop and wilted salad sandwiches on the beach. Popping tar bubbles on the road with bare toes. Collecting frogspawn and tadpoles in jars. Punting in the estuary. Fern forts, tractor rides and jumping off haystacks. The smell of fresh horse sweat, gorse blossom, wildfires burning on the mountain, and nanna's griddle bread

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By *dward_TeagueMan
over a year ago

wolverhampton

My Raleigh Chopper. That saddle and the gear knob and the kick stand that I thought was so cool.

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

"Sandy bottles of orange pop and wilted salad sandwiches on the beach. Popping tar bubbles on the road with bare toes. Collecting frogspawn and tadpoles in jars. Punting in the estuary. Fern forts, tractor rides and jumping off haystacks. The smell of fresh horse sweat, gorse blossom, wildfires burning on the mountain, and nanna's griddle bread

Now that sounds like a seriously awesome childhood!

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

Building dens in the woods.

Making "It's A Knockout" courses in the back garden.

Running away whenever the football hit someone's window, rather bizarrely hoping they wouldn't know it was us

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

Using every cushion on the three piece suite to make a castle

Wandering up the mountains looking out for the 'voodoos' or dead sheep

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By *ueen of sleezeWoman
over a year ago

Yorkshire

Around this time of year it was always penny for the guy

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

Playground equipment on a concrete floor that a medieval torture chamber would have been proud of.

Climbing frames 20 foot high with no safety net.

My local kids school had a playground notice saying "no ball games" and "no running" errrrr isn't that the point of playing

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By *esus H ChristMan
over a year ago

birmingham

Knock door run, burning the soles of our bare feet on the pavement as it was so hot, space dust popping candy, 10p mix-ups from the sweet shop, jumping off the shed roof onto the lawn below, Corona Pop and collecting the bottles so we could cash them in....

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By *ryst In IsoldeWoman
over a year ago

your imagination

Now that sounds like a seriously awesome childhood! "

It truly was. I grew up in one of the most magical places on Earth and now get to share it with my nieces and nephews. Hope their memories will be just as special

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

Spending hours looking through the lingerie model photos in the Kay's catalogue hoping to catch a glimpse of a nipple or more

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

Now that sounds like a seriously awesome childhood!

It truly was. I grew up in one of the most magical places on Earth and now get to share it with my nieces and nephews. Hope their memories will be just as special

Oh I bloody love this!

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

- Going for "adventures" over the woods or the playing fields (my village was too posh to call it a park!!)

- Finding the perfect stick to be a machine gun or pistol.

- Playing board games at a mates

- Reading Victor/Warlord/Shoot and various other comics, and in later years Smash Hits and NME (using the contents of all of them as posters on your bedroom wall).

- Spending hours on the beach in the summer and not bothering with sun cream or aftersun

- Wasting time on the penny slots in the arcade at the seaside

- Collecting Figurine Panini stickers and swapsies

- Collecting stars off of Action Man boxes to get the special edition items

- Writing to Wrigleys when I bought a packet of chewing gum that the papers inside were all ripped and getting what seemed like a years supply sent back.

- Going to football and it not costing an arm and a leg

Happy days

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By *andybeachWoman
over a year ago

In the middle

We would spend hours in the woods at the back of our house making dens and rickety tree houses, catching minows in the canal, digging up worms and keeping them in a jar (not sure why, it was my older brothers idea), playing tennis on the courts at the back of our houses, tying the skipping rope to the down pipe so me and my sister could take it in turns, making tents in the garden with an old sheet over the washing line and a few blue bricks at each corner to hold it down, finding a good stone to mark out the hopscotch grid on the pavement slabs outside the house (no tarmac pavements then), going to the seeside in the clubs annual outing, so much more I could say, I had a great childhood

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By *sGivesWoodWoman
over a year ago

ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL

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

"[childhood Removed by poster at 04/11/18 10:26:22]"

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By *sGivesWoodWoman
over a year ago

ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL

"Hot wiring cars, back in the day when you could do that to a car!

Glue sniffing, perving my best mates mum and finding random torn up pornos over the park. God I love Essex "

You can still hot wire some cars

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

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be

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

Hardly seeing mum & dad till I was 11 thanks to #africannanny #bordingschool #aphartiteerainequalitty=luxury

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

Oh so many things

Playing bulldog with everyone on estate

When got dark competition of grand national over peoples hedges and front garden walls

Playing football on bit of grass next to main road and having sense if ball went in road to wait an retrieve it to continue game

Making perfumes out of people’s grower gardens and trying sell it back to em lol

Being the greatest stuntman even on skateboard or on bike both bmx and racer lol and going hospital regular for stitches cos cut head open lots ( scars are present)

Doing stupid stunt that nearly lost me my eye lol

Now kids can’t play have fun an do silly things

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By *dward_TeagueMan
over a year ago

wolverhampton

Getting my first pair of Adidas Kick trainers.

Getting my first pair of football boots with screw in studs.

Having hair......

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

Collecting ice lolly sticks to make wooden frisbees out of.

Going on a red bus rover adventure around London with the bigger kids.

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By *dward_TeagueMan
over a year ago

wolverhampton

One for the Brummies on here.....Riding the 11 route

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

The sound of crickets, catching fireflies, expeditions in the woods or to the dam, playing baseball or kickball in the street, catching tadpoles, digging big holes as forts, making tree forts, building a tree house, swimming in the lake, riding your bicycle for miles without a helmet, watching when a house burnt down, swimming pools and camping where there might be bears

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

A roller Skate and a thick Annual type book then away you went down a hill. Until you hit a piece of coal then did the rest of the journey on your knuckles

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

"Oh so many things

Playing bulldog with everyone on estate

When got dark competition of grand national over peoples hedges and front garden walls

Playing football on bit of grass next to main road and having sense if ball went in road to wait an retrieve it to continue game

Making perfumes out of people’s grower gardens and trying sell it back to em lol

Being the greatest stuntman even on skateboard or on bike both bmx and racer lol and going hospital regular for stitches cos cut head open lots ( scars are present)

Doing stupid stunt that nearly lost me my eye lol

Now kids can’t play have fun an do silly things"

They can if you're sensible, I made sure that my kids had a great childhood including making dens, fires, wild swimming, climbing trees, I even went out door knocking with them and we never laughed so much together.

Don't think weird adults and perverts are a new thing.

To many parents let them sit in there bedroom on technology for hours and hours because it's easy parenting and can pretend they are safe.

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

Borrowing a big bit of cardboard from the back of the shops, walking 45 minutes to the nearest steep grass hill and cardboard sledging during the summer so that we didn't have to wait for snow.

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

"Borrowing a big bit of cardboard from the back of the shops, walking 45 minutes to the nearest steep grass hill and cardboard sledging during the summer so that we didn't have to wait for snow."

That reminds me, tons of snow and time off school

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

Meeting friends at the end of the road after Neighbours, you never used the phone either you'd just knock your friend's door to see if they were coming out.

Water fights with Fairy bottles, putting cans under your mud guard so your bike sounded like a motorbike. Our dog that was always out with us too. He hated when we cycled cos he had to run to keep up

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

"Getting my first pair of Adidas Kick trainers.

Getting my first pair of football boots with screw in studs.

Having hair......"
then loosing the studs 2 weeks later

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

Putting a kid in a locker and rolling it down the stairs.

Steaming open mail and re sealing it with added correspondence.

Dipping unfortunate kids digits in a cup of water while the sleep.

Flipping random beds over and running away.

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

"Borrowing a big bit of cardboard from the back of the shops, walking 45 minutes to the nearest steep grass hill and cardboard sledging during the summer so that we didn't have to wait for snow."

We used to do that, but our hill was only 5 minutes away and was known as Dinahs knob. Or by us kids as cardboard hill x

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

Making death slides about 30 feet long by scuffling your feet on the snow to polish it in the play ground

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By *ryst In IsoldeWoman
over a year ago

your imagination

"To many parents let them sit in there bedroom on technology for hours and hours because it's easy parenting and can pretend they are safe. "

I'm not a parent but I do see this happening. Trying to pry kids who have been conditioned to sit quietly with a game device away from it to play real games and get out in the fresh is no joke. I had a huge row with a family member over the Summer after my nephews asked me to download Clash of Clans and join their Clan. I downloaded it and joined, but was absolutely horrified to find that it features a global chatroom filled with people of all ages, and that much of the chat has absolutely nothing to do with the game... It was mostly adult males complaining about being hungover and horny, and sleazing on any girl who logged on, regardless of age. The things they said to me were revolting.

My nephews are 6, 7 and 11. Thankfully my nieces (all under 8) had expressed no interest in the game and hadn't been exposed to any of this. The boys had been playing for a couple of hours each day for almost a year without their parents being aware of this element of the game.

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

"Borrowing a big bit of cardboard from the back of the shops, walking 45 minutes to the nearest steep grass hill and cardboard sledging during the summer so that we didn't have to wait for snow.

We used to do that, but our hill was only 5 minutes away and was known as Dinahs knob. Or by us kids as cardboard hill x

So your love of knob came early

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

"Borrowing a big bit of cardboard from the back of the shops, walking 45 minutes to the nearest steep grass hill and cardboard sledging during the summer so that we didn't have to wait for snow.

We used to do that, but our hill was only 5 minutes away and was known as Dinahs knob. Or by us kids as cardboard hill x

So your love of knob came early "

Ha ha

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

Long summer Saturdays, leaving the house early, wandering off and not returning until your hungry.

We'd bake, used to love going fruit picking, then making pies. Dad worked at Dairy Crest, never short of cheese or milk and cream which we used to make our own butter.

Winter nights in front of our open range in the kitchen toasting bread. Dad would wrap potatoes in foil and pop them under the grate, we'd eat straight out of the foil with butter spread all over them. I loved the powercuts, Dad would sit and tell us ghost stories.

Snow, by god it snowed back then, snow up to the window sills, the school closing because of the heating packing up. We'd be straight outside to find our mates, I can remember we made w huge igloo in the field at the back of my house. All the kids helped, and my Dad bringing toast and hot chocolate for us.

Sleds using coal bags.

I was obnoxious to my brothers, this one day I'd been particularly horrible, Dad told them to take me out, they took me to a wood, walked me to the middle, told me to close my eyes and count to 100 lol. They left me there! Dad went mental! I was the baby of the family, spoilt, proper Daddys princess.

Walking with my Dad in Autumn, he'd show me everything natural, taking time to explain things. I used to dawdle with my little basket, Dad told me that acorn shells were fairy hats! I'd be looking for fairy hats for ages!

He also taught me how to read the sky, and weather and to read the seasons, and be kind to all creatures, "everyone has the right to life,no matter how small or insignificant it may seem, everything has a purpose in life, killing upsets the natural order"

That is one thing that has stuck with me.

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By *uxom redCouple
over a year ago

Shrewsbury

Playing dancing demon on a zx spectrum.

Playing out till it got dark.

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

Going to Butlins every year and winning the donkey derby and getting a free holiday. Playing in the street. We were like a wee family....everyone was skint but it was the best days. My dad doing assault courses in the garden. My neighbours still mention it....My dad was a legend x

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By *VxrMan
over a year ago

Newton le Willows

This time of year it was playing conkers, knocking for bommy wood & penny for the guy. Feels like I spent a lot of time trying to retrieve footballs that were stuck under cars too.

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

"Playing dancing demon on a zx spectrum.

Playing out till it got dark. "
good one coppying gameson my amstrad then listrninv to them screech as they loaded

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

Playing elastics oh and also cats cradle with string

Doing a weekly paper round on Friday evenings delivering local free newspaper... man that bag was so heavy

Our mum taking us for a treat to McDonalds...we had to drive about half an hour to get to the closest one... thats how few there was of them back then!

Going on summer holidays with our dad and his new wife in her Ford Cortina and our legs nearly frying on the plastic back seats coz summer was always hot

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By *uxom redCouple
over a year ago

Shrewsbury

Recording songs from the radio trying to time it so you don't get the Dj talking.

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

Red rover day bus passes for trips to London

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By *abs..Woman
over a year ago

"Playing elastics oh and also cats cradle with string

Doing a weekly paper round on Friday evenings delivering local free newspaper... man that bag was so heavy

Our mum taking us for a treat to McDonalds...we had to drive about half an hour to get to the closest one... thats how few there was of them back then!

Going on summer holidays with our dad and his new wife in her Ford Cortina and our legs nearly frying on the plastic back seats coz summer was always hot

I loved elastics!

What was the game called that had a tennis ball in a stocking and you stood with your back to the wall and hit the wall with the ball, lifting arms and legs out of the way? It is a game, honest

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

"Long summer Saturdays, leaving the house early, wandering off and not returning until your hungry.

We'd bake, used to love going fruit picking, then making pies. Dad worked at Dairy Crest, never short of cheese or milk and cream which we used to make our own butter.

Sleds using coal bags.

That is one thing that has stuck with me.

I love this.

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

A BMX, couple of cinder blocks and a plank of wood.

Hours of fun!!!!

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

"Playing elastics oh and also cats cradle with string

Doing a weekly paper round on Friday evenings delivering local free newspaper... man that bag was so heavy

Our mum taking us for a treat to McDonalds...we had to drive about half an hour to get to the closest one... thats how few there was of them back then!

Going on summer holidays with our dad and his new wife in her Ford Cortina and our legs nearly frying on the plastic back seats coz summer was always hot

I loved elastics!

What was the game called that had a tennis ball in a stocking and you stood with your back to the wall and hit the wall with the ball, lifting arms and legs out of the way? It is a game, honest

We did that too.

No idea what it was called. Boredom probably.

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By *ady LickWoman
over a year ago

Northampton Somewhere

Going off for hours with the rest of the kids from my street.

Walking down to the river and then the through the woods to the marina. We used to stop at back of the strawberry fields and top up our lunch boxes!

Working our way into the middle of a haystack.

Making mudpies and 'perfume' out of my mum's flowers.

Playing tennis on our street and hardly ever having to stop as there were hardly any cars.

Rope swings landing on a pile of straw ~ took me ages to jump off that!

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By *ady LickWoman
over a year ago

Northampton Somewhere

"Playing elastics oh and also cats cradle with string

Doing a weekly paper round on Friday evenings delivering local free newspaper... man that bag was so heavy

Our mum taking us for a treat to McDonalds...we had to drive about half an hour to get to the closest one... thats how few there was of them back then!

Going on summer holidays with our dad and his new wife in her Ford Cortina and our legs nearly frying on the plastic back seats coz summer was always hot

I loved elastics!

What was the game called that had a tennis ball in a stocking and you stood with your back to the wall and hit the wall with the ball, lifting arms and legs out of the way? It is a game, honest

I know that, we used to the it to one ankle and then spin it round and jump over it

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

"I miss the old playground at my local park, narrow slide 30ft high with concrete either side, those were the days "

We had one like that. Loved it

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

First time I got on a Bike and crashed. Still doing it today

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

My local kids school had a playground notice saying "no ball games" and "no running" errrrr isn't that the point of playing"

Nanny state

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By *r MoriartyMan
over a year ago

The Land that time forgot (Norfolk)

When I pooped myself in first school and the school nurse gave me a hand wash.

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

Living with my Gran in a thatched cottage with a well for water and candles for light.

She and my mad aunt taught me how to bake and heat the home with the wood burner stove and fire.

Scrumping for fruit and poaching trout from the local stream, Great fruit crumbles and baked trout meals.

Being allowed to wander all over Salisbury plain that was at the end of her garden, Probably why i wont live in a house unless its got a log burner or aga cooker!

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

"Playing elastics oh and also cats cradle with string

Doing a weekly paper round on Friday evenings delivering local free newspaper... man that bag was so heavy

Our mum taking us for a treat to McDonalds...we had to drive about half an hour to get to the closest one... thats how few there was of them back then!

Going on summer holidays with our dad and his new wife in her Ford Cortina and our legs nearly frying on the plastic back seats coz summer was always hot

I loved elastics!

What was the game called that had a tennis ball in a stocking and you stood with your back to the wall and hit the wall with the ball, lifting arms and legs out of the way? It is a game, honest

Sock ball. We played it against our houses and got told off by our mums.

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By *andybeachWoman
over a year ago

In the middle

"When I pooped myself in first school and the school nurse gave me a hand wash."

Ohhh god, that has just reminded me of being in the infants school and not getting my woolly tights off quick enough

I ended up with wet pants so I was sent to the school nurse who put my wet things in a brown bag with my name on, then I had to wear a pair of pants out the “odds n sodds” box which mum had to wash and return the next day

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

"Oh so many things

Playing bulldog with everyone on estate

When got dark competition of grand national over peoples hedges and front garden walls

Playing football on bit of grass next to main road and having sense if ball went in road to wait an retrieve it to continue game

Making perfumes out of people’s grower gardens and trying sell it back to em lol

Being the greatest stuntman even on skateboard or on bike both bmx and racer lol and going hospital regular for stitches cos cut head open lots ( scars are present)

Doing stupid stunt that nearly lost me my eye lol

Now kids can’t play have fun an do silly things

Don't think weird adults and perverts are a new thing.

To many parents let them sit in there bedroom on technology for hours and hours because it's easy parenting and can pretend they are safe.

Oh I agree when I was kid if got cut or stuff was back out side some parents now wrap kids in cotton wool.

I can’t say about gaming kids I always was but I still went out and played as well as playing sega.

I also was in cubs and scouts so loads time having fun exploring learning and being a kid

I miss that it’s rare hear kids like that now the laughs we had were because we did mischief or fun.

There are a few kids near me now and I love when I see them out playing they say hello but they outside being kids not adults

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over a year ago

Playing cowboys and Indians in and around the old bunker at the end of the garden..

Garden creeping

Making a packed lunch and disappearing off for the day without a care in the world

Making dens in the woods

Camping out in the garden

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

Airfix models. I must have built 75% of the aeroplanes, a good few ships and tanks, plus some others..

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

"Hot wiring cars, back in the day when you could do that to a car!

Glue sniffing, perving my best mates mum and finding random torn up pornos over the park. God I love Essex

You can still hot wire some cars

This sounds like a challenge

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By *r MoriartyMan
over a year ago

The Land that time forgot (Norfolk)

"When I pooped myself in first school and the school nurse gave me a hand wash.

Ohhh god, that has just reminded me of being in the infants school and not getting my woolly tights off quick enough

Same here, At that age I was more ashamed of the green corduroy trousers I had to wear the rest of the day than the fact I had just shat myself.

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By *exyspecs and supermanCouple
over a year ago

A house, a very big house in the country

Point horror books

I loved them

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By *an_LexaCouple
over a year ago

Sunderland

Not actually playing games in the school yard at playtime because you were too busy walking round linking arms singing “ who wants to play, Mam’s and dads?” “ who wants to play hospitals?”

“Join on for war” “Who wants to play Japs and commandos?” if you were on of the lads

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

Hopscotch

British Bulldogs

Climbing trees

Building little dams in a trickle of a brook.

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By *VxrMan
over a year ago

Newton le Willows

"Playing cowboys and Indians in and around the old bunker at the end of the garden..

Garden creeping

Making a packed lunch and disappearing off for the day without a care in the world

Making dens in the woods

Camping out in the garden

Used to love camping out in the garden, not sure if we ever made it through a whole night though without retreating to the warmth of the house

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

"Not actually playing games in the school yard at playtime because you were too busy walking round linking arms singing “ who wants to play, Mam’s and dads?” “ who wants to play hospitals?”

“Join on for war” “Who wants to play Japs and commandos?” if you were on of the lads "

That made me laugh. We used to spend more time arguing over what to play than actually doing anything.

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

Using the wheels off a pram to make a go kart. String to steer with and no brakes.

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By *aven RedWoman
over a year ago

Liverpool

Skipping with all the kids in the street, the mums getting a washing line and turning it so we could all play. Getting the old washing up bottles to have water fights x

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

Collecting pop bottles for the pop man

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

Sharing my Grandmas meals on wheels in school holidays

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By *iamondCougarWoman
over a year ago

Norfuck! / Lincolnshire

I grew up on a farm so it was our playground, ponds, Woods, picnics, ponies, haystacks those amazing times

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over a year ago

"I grew up on a farm so it was our playground, ponds, Woods, picnics, ponies, haystacks those amazing times

haystacks eh. i see lol

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

Ah ha ha! Someone’s just reminded me of a very happy memory as a teenager

“You can touch me under my top, but over my bra!”

30 years later I can still remember the feel of that bra, and the smell of her perfume!

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By *iamondCougarWoman
over a year ago

Norfuck! / Lincolnshire

"I grew up on a farm so it was our playground, ponds, Woods, picnics, ponies, haystacks those amazing times

haystacks eh. i see lol"

I don’t know what you mean!

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over a year ago

"Ah ha ha! Someone’s just reminded me of a very happy memory as a teenager

“You can touch me under my top, but over my bra!”

30 years later I can still remember the feel of that bra, and the smell of her perfume!

You've just taken me back a long way. Presumably a different girl!

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

Being happy

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

"Being happy"
u not happy now?

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

"Ah ha ha! Someone’s just reminded me of a very happy memory as a teenager

“You can touch me under my top, but over my bra!”

30 years later I can still remember the feel of that bra, and the smell of her perfume!

You've just taken me back a long way. Presumably a different girl!"

oh I don’t know, she had a bit of a reputation!

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By *ensualbicockMan
over a year ago

liverpool wavertree picton clock

Being 25,acres of derelict railway depot at top of street ....playing army in dalipadated buildings was authentic , plus bommy night we always had wood for fire

Making peg-guns

Jumping of anything we could into skips full,of builders Sand

Jumping off the roof with plastic bin bags tied to me like a parachute ....and yes I did break my ankle

Don't know how I'm here

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

Tarmac bubbles in the road in the summer and jumping in the lake. Oh and rope swings!

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

Snowball fights or playing kerby with the ball smashing into everything in sight,or knock door run oh the days of youth

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By *greygorCouple
over a year ago

birmingham

being told to keep quiet when rent man was at door on a friday night.standing out side radio rentals shop to watch tv,with no sound .dripping on toast for tea.[male half] tales of the past ha ha

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