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By *elshkinky OP Man
over a year ago

south wales

When making crumpets earlier I remember I used to toast them in front of an open fire as a kid and they tasted amazing... anything take you back and make you smile

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

Climbing as high as you could on the rugby posts before falling off

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By *elshkinky OP Man
over a year ago

south wales

"Climbing as high as you could on the rugby posts before falling off"

Used to love climbing as a kid... god there was no worry about my safety climbing trees...

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By *essie.Woman
over a year ago

Serendipity

Building little dams in a stream near my grandparents.

Recording the charts off the radio onto a cassette recorder.

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

We would go clay pigeon shooting all over the place. There was this one place that was on an old airfield and they had a little farm bit too, I'd sit in with the goats for hours. Nobody would bother me, but they'd know where I was. I was about 8 or 9.

I fucking loved those goats.

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By *elshkinky OP Man
over a year ago

south wales

"Building little dams in a stream near my grandparents.

Recording the charts off the radio onto a cassette recorder. "

I used to build dams... but didn’t do the charts... think it was more a girl thing

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By *wisted999Man
over a year ago

North Bucks

I used to live in a pine forest that was situated on the med. The smells of pine especially after it rains takes me to a happy place.

Also the sound of the sea.

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

Catching bullheads in the river

Wandering around the mountains

Playing games with others that encompassed up to 20 streets

Heading out in the morning and getting back for tea

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By *elshkinky OP Man
over a year ago

south wales

"We would go clay pigeon shooting all over the place. There was this one place that was on an old airfield and they had a little farm bit too, I'd sit in with the goats for hours. Nobody would bother me, but they'd know where I was. I was about 8 or 9.

I fucking loved those goats.

P "

It sounds like your safe place...

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

Building bonfire in November.

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By *elshkinky OP Man
over a year ago

south wales

"Catching bullheads in the river

Wandering around the mountains

Playing games with others that encompassed up to 20 streets

Heading out in the morning and getting back for tea"

I played street games for hours... loads of us and never bothered anyone... proper childhood

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By *elshkinky OP Man
over a year ago

south wales

"Building bonfire in November."

Going collecting for the bonfire... loved it

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By *elshkinky OP Man
over a year ago

south wales

"I used to live in a pine forest that was situated on the med. The smells of pine especially after it rains takes me to a happy place.

Also the sound of the sea. "

It’s amazing how smells and sounds takes us back to a happier time

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

Playing football in the street and having to stretch under cars to get the ball back

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

I fucking loved those goats.

It sounds like your safe place... "

My safe place was always with animals when I was a kid. To be fair it hasn't really changed that much!.

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

"Climbing as high as you could on the rugby posts before falling off

Used to love climbing as a kid... god there was no worry about my safety climbing trees... "

Bones healed and cuts were stitched. I miss those days so much

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By *elshkinky OP Man
over a year ago

south wales

"Playing football in the street and having to stretch under cars to get the ball back"

Mud stains down the trousers from slide tackling and playing for about 5 hours lol

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By *icentiousCouple
over a year ago

Up on them there hills

There is an interview between Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung where they explored first memories, they found out that the first memories often defined the type of person they were.

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By *elshkinky OP Man
over a year ago

south wales

"Climbing as high as you could on the rugby posts before falling off

Used to love climbing as a kid... god there was no worry about my safety climbing trees...

Bones healed and cuts were stitched. I miss those days so much

Me too... such simpler times and full of cuts and grazes

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By *elshkinky OP Man
over a year ago

south wales

"There is an interview between Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung where they explored first memories, they found out that the first memories often defined the type of person they were."

I’ve done cognitive recall a few times for people and it’s really powerful... normally ends up in tears ... sometimes joy sometimes not

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By *essie.Woman
over a year ago

Serendipity

We used to play Fox and Hounds for hours. All the kids in the neighbourhood.

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By *elshkinky OP Man
over a year ago

south wales

"We used to play Fox and Hounds for hours. All the kids in the neighbourhood.

And British bulldog ... loads of us

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By *atricia ParnelWoman
over a year ago

In a town full of colours

Smell of fresh cut hay,

sitting in the tractor as we used to cut the hay on the farm when I was 5

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

Many of my favourite childhood memories also raise the question to how I didn’t tragically die!

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By *adetMan
over a year ago

South Ipswich

Did anyone play Curbies? Or was that a Suffolk thing?

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By *elshkinky OP Man
over a year ago

south wales

"Smell of fresh cut hay,

sitting in the tractor as we used to cut the hay on the farm when I was 5"

I did some horse riding in a nearby farm in lieu of working there in the summer

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By *elshkinky OP Man
over a year ago

south wales

"Did anyone play Curbies? Or was that a Suffolk thing?"

I was curbie champion on my street lol

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By *aomilatteCouple
over a year ago

Midlands

Penny for the guy

Carol singing

Knock door run

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By *elshkinky OP Man
over a year ago

south wales

"Penny for the guy

Carol singing

Knock door run

Did penny for the guy. Never carol singing and got caught once bobby knocking and got a clip .. never did it again

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By *adetMan
over a year ago

South Ipswich

"Did anyone play Curbies? Or was that a Suffolk thing?

I was curbie champion on my street lol"

We all spent hours playing that game

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By *adetMan
over a year ago

South Ipswich

Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas sums up my childhood very well

Go check it out. Beautiful poem

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

Picking blackberries and making daisy chains and mud pies. I was a proper tomboy!

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By *icentiousCouple
over a year ago

Up on them there hills

"There is an interview between Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung where they explored first memories, they found out that the first memories often defined the type of person they were.

I’ve done cognitive recall a few times for people and it’s really powerful... normally ends up in tears ... sometimes joy sometimes not "

Now that is a wired one for reaction.

I used to train this, as the trainees went through the process I would make sure there were assistants at every exit, keeping the reaction in the room.

Remember one time a male trainee shot through the fire door setting the alarm off for the whole building, cost me a call out from the fire engine that turned up.

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By *icentiousCouple
over a year ago

Up on them there hills

"There is an interview between Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung where they explored first memories, they found out that the first memories often defined the type of person they were.

I’ve done cognitive recall a few times for people and it’s really powerful... normally ends up in tears ... sometimes joy sometimes not

Now that is a wired one for reaction.

I used to train this, as the trainees went through the process I would make sure there were assistants at every exit, keeping the reaction in the room.

Remember one time a male trainee shot through the fire door setting the alarm off for the whole building, cost me a call out from the fire engine that turned up."

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By *icentiousCouple
over a year ago

Up on them there hills

"There is an interview between Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung where they explored first memories, they found out that the first memories often defined the type of person they were.

I’ve done cognitive recall a few times for people and it’s really powerful... normally ends up in tears ... sometimes joy sometimes not

Now that is a wired one for reaction.

I used to train this, as the trainees went through the process I would make sure there were assistants at every exit, keeping the reaction in the room.

Remember one time a male trainee shot through the fire door setting the alarm off for the whole building, cost me a call out from the fire engine that turned up."

Weird not wired.

So going to have to remember to proof read!

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By *osieburnsTV/TS
over a year ago

DIDCOT

swimming in the river

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

"When making crumpets earlier I remember I used to toast them in front of an open fire as a kid and they tasted amazing... anything take you back and make you smile "

I remember making toast with a fork hooked to the wire of our gas fire

My mum was there so it must have been safe

There was a lot of kids in my street it was a close with a green in the middle- we used to chuck grass and hard berries at each other - and the boys used to pin us down and stuff it down our tops and pants

Happy times - I'm so glad I was about 30 before I had the internet at home.

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

Hedge Hopping

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By *ovegames42Man
over a year ago

london

Bunking into cinemas, one of us would climb up the drainpipe in through the toilet window, down the fire escape staircase open the door and let the other in.

“ then came bloody anti climb paint “.

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By *om and JennieCouple
over a year ago

Chams or Socials

We loved playing in air raid shelters on the TAF bases

J x

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

Playing wide games in the woods til dusk; acres of adult-free fun.

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By *ovegames42Man
over a year ago

london

Wild camping in Epping forest

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By *aomilatteCouple
over a year ago

Midlands

Pressing play and record together on a cassette player (look it up kids!) to record the top 40

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Did similar...toast using gas fire. Best taste ever...careful not left too long! Used long forks.

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By *ovegames42Man
over a year ago

london

"Pressing play and record together on a cassette player (look it up kids!) to record the top 40

And then quickly try to rewind the tape and start recording again to cut out the DJ talking in between songs,

“ bloody nightmare “.

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

"Pressing play and record together on a cassette player (look it up kids!) to record the top 40

And then quickly try to rewind the tape and start recording again to cut out the DJ talking in between songs,

“ bloody nightmare “."

I would love to be able to listen to those tapes again to see what songs I recorded

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By *ovegames42Man
over a year ago

london

"Pressing play and record together on a cassette player (look it up kids!) to record the top 40

And then quickly try to rewind the tape and start recording again to cut out the DJ talking in between songs,

“ bloody nightmare “.

I would love to be able to listen to those tapes again to see what songs I recorded

You and me both, that would certainly bring some memories flooding back.

Never had a care in the world back then.

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By *oneyjule65Couple
over a year ago

Halifax

"When making crumpets earlier I remember I used to toast them in front of an open fire as a kid and they tasted amazing... anything take you back and make you smile "

Ooh I did that....not the same in toaster or under the grill have to have real butter too...

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By *iamond coupleCouple
over a year ago

leeds

Roasting chestnuts in the ash pan under the open fire

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

Building dens in the woods,going to the beach and climbing cliffs in summer, going on long bike rides taking a picnic with friends was so carefree back then

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

"Catching bullheads in the river

Wandering around the mountains

Playing games with others that encompassed up to 20 streets

Heading out in the morning and getting back for tea

I played street games for hours... loads of us and never bothered anyone... proper childhood "

No technology... imagination and true friendship...

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By *ed-monkeyCouple
over a year ago

Hailsham

I cannot believe that no one has said ....

Jumpers for goal posts

In the best Ron Manager voice you can muster

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By *ovegames42Man
over a year ago

london

Nock down ginger

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By *oneyjule65Couple
over a year ago

Halifax

Kiss chase, long hot Summer days in the garden, playing leap frog,pretending I had a dog or was a dog....

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

Duffel bag full of jam sandwiches and orange squash and out down the woods all day

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

"Nock down ginger "

Pom pom

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By *ympho6969Woman
over a year ago

glasgow

Cards dominoes and board games. Reminds me of caravan trips (no tv) as a family. We could all count before we could spell our name thanks to card and doms. Still a big family tradition that we do regularly on a night in

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

The smell of summer! Staying out late in the summer holidays with my mates playing on the park.

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

Lavender always takes me back to my grandmother and makes me smile. As does good porridge as she was Scottish

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By *ovegames42Man
over a year ago

london

Endless days spent in the lido on hot summers days.

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By *ovegames42Man
over a year ago

london

"Endless days spent in the lido on hot summers days."

Skinny dipping at night time

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By *ovegames42Man
over a year ago

london

Sitting watching my mother baking cakes waiting to lick the bowl.

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By *elshkinky OP Man
over a year ago

south wales

It’s good to see such great memories ... and clearly a lot of us are thankful to have a good childhood

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By *ovegames42Man
over a year ago

london

"It’s good to see such great memories ... and clearly a lot of us are thankful to have a good childhood "

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over a year ago

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