Your childhood......

taking my Son (now 20) to his first day at school I remember walking down the corridors with that "school smell " and feeling like a child again myself.

Chipitos now called wotsits (I used to love them)

spangles (back in the shops)

Morcambe and wise (always had to go to bed when it finished)

Seeing young girls in wedges

very short skirts (Mum used to say when you bend down I can see your knickers)

I could go on and on and on..........

Bottle green gabadine macs......

Mr Whippy ice cream (in 1966 ? they made football ice creams - orange plastic foot balls with a lid which were filled with ice cream, when the ice cream was eaten, you could put the lid back on and use the ball........)

Jelly at birthday parties

Whizzers

Klackers

French skipping

French knitting

The Crona man

The bread man delivering

Not having to wear a seatbelt (and being allowed to sit on the front seat of my Dad's Austin Cambridge and sliding off the seat and bashing my nose on the dashboard when he braked to miss a cat......)

Please Sir (Sunday nights, but only if we'd had our baths first)

How, Blue Peter and Magpie, White horses, Champion the Wonder Horse, foreign language programmes badly dubbed.....

Playing Jacks and twoball

White Horses, Swallows and Amazons, Talking Mr Ed, The very first Dr Who :D, Thank Your Lucky Stars

Black & White TV

The smell of washing boiling

Playing Fireball XL5 with my best friend (I was Venus and he was Steve Zodiac)

Foggy mornings and hot Summers (not humid)

Christmas with only a small stocking and one large present and being totally blissful still ;)

I remember wearing a liberty bodice to school :D :D And being fascinated because a friend had a kilt that did up with VELCRO :) Visits from the 'nit nurse'. Outdoor loos and having to 'put a foot under' the door as there were no locks :) Being sent home because of the smog :D

Happy Days :)

Daisy

Long wollen socks with garters to hold them up - thankfull tights hit the market shortly after. Going to school in the dark - as in the late 60's there was an experiment in Ireland not to do daylight saving time for one year, and we all had to have dayglo jackets because it was pitch black going to school.

The Tufty Club, being scared of the coal man's black face and blue eyes, the rag n bone man blowing his trumpet and searching through wardrobes for old clothes to get a balloon - a big deal a balloon, candy floss and sand in your shoes. Plastic sandals and orange juice in plastic cups. Feeding the ducks all the left over bread - not allowed now and the bread is never left over! Patent leather shoes and white ankle socks. And standing still for ages while my lMum with a mouthful of pins jagged my knees as she measured the focks she was making me.

Oh sand in your shoes - bet they were Clarks sandles too? ;)
  Holidays were always taken in the UK, and braving the North Sea meant getting sand brushed off by Mum with a dry rough towel.......  If you were lucky somebody would get sent to the edge of the sea with a bucket to sloosh it off - but if there was sand in the bucket you ended up with more sand sticking to you than got washed off.......  Getting changed in a toweling coverup with a string at the neck....

White sandles for easter with new easter clothes

playing batmen with your coat tied around your neck and your gloves on

learning to ride your bike without the steadies  mum letting go riding well until realising she'd let go then..... falling off!

first time got a phone and everyone stirring at it  when it rang!!

I remember mum and dad getting our new video player (yes we did get a VHS) and microwave in 1982. Dont think we ever used them for the first 5 years!

I always remember the Falklands War in 1982 also - my brother was 15 and all his friends and him wanted to go and fight!

I also remember every Sunday morning going to the beach with Dad and my 2 brothers and sister. Mum caught up on things - I reckon she was just having a few hours to herself!

I always remembered "party tea" on a Sunday afternoon. That was the only time in the week we were allowed any sweets or cakes. Wish I followed Mum's example to this day!

Moving house and starting new schools always springs to my mind about being little.

We didn't have a fridge when I was very small - there was a metal box in the cellar that the milk was kept in.

The 'rag and bone' man coming round with his horse and cart, ringing his bell. We actually got paid a few coppers for the sack of rags :)

Finding bits of broken china in the garden when we were digging - the house had been demolished when a flying bomb landed in the garden, my mother and grandmother had to be pulled out of the wreckage. My mother found it very sad seeing bits of what had been the family china :(

Daisy

my childhood memories are
pop man coming round on a friday
getting our first video betamax toploader!!
getting quilts and quilt covers instead of itchey blankets
the summers always seemsd warm and long
playing on my grifter
and the streets emptying at saturday t time to watch the a-team

OMG

the milk cooler (terracotta cover and dish, soaked with water)
the mangle washing machine and my bro getting told off because mum didn't want the scrubbing board any more!!
outside toilets
tin bath in front of the fire
Sheep on the kitchen roof (again)
Sheep in the gardens - in fact sheep everywhere!
Old English Sweets - I loved the wierd tasting ones :)
Spangles
proper bubble gum
the beano and the dandy
getting a pack of those new fangled felt pens for christmas
The Italian Ice cream man - Shell ice creams mmmmmm  and he gave us more because we spoke italian :D :D
OXO crisps

My two 'naughty' best mates....Ramona & Stacey. We're still naughty 20 yrs later and I love them to bits. They so remind me of a very blessed happy childhood and the journey through the teenage years :D
80's music.....'in a big country, dreams stay with you, like a lovers voice, cross the mountainside, stay alive...shack!' :D
Lying on a shopfloor trying to squeeze into drainpipe jeans, winklepickers, legwarmers, bubble skirts, peddlepushers, blue/pink eye make-up.....

...sigh.....

:) I used to play fireball XL5 as well Melodysk, with the boy next door ;)
I remember also playing safely in the streets,
rat-a-tat ginger
liquorice laces and sherbet dips on the way to school
nit nurse
'watch with mother' - Andy Pandy, the wooden tops, Tinker and Tucker,

the rag and bone man!

two-ball against the side of the house,
french skipping,
off ground tig,
as for clothes we wore hot pants, 'kinky boots' , 'docker pocket' trousers, short skirts,  SCHOOL UNIFORMS!

ahh, those were the days .......

brought back some more memories for me there Missie Hot pants and maxi skirts  for the school disco.
just remembered (blush) purple thigh high platform boots
I always wanted an afghan coat..... yuk never got one thank god!!!

Not painting a picture of myself :)

Roni

talking of coats, remember the 'Combi' coats? mine was black with a red silk kerchief in the top pocket!  And I always, for some strange reason, wanted a duffle coat but never got one. How sad is that?

does anyone remember  jesus sandles!!!!

Not only do I remember, but I still have a pair! ;) :D

I've got a combi but it's a boiler!  I think you mean a crombie coat.  Just shows how fuddled we can get at our age :D

Thankyou Isabel, :D

pasty (shoes) put your feet together to make a pie :D :)

Soda streams!

Cremola Foam (sp?)

Jelly shoes
alla balla bushka (don't know how to spell it).
Mr softie & butterskotch sauce.
Long socks pushed down to the ankles.
Me & my sister dressed in matching outfits.

Charles and Dianas wedding, and having a street party to celebrate
Cola Bottles
Warm milk in glass bottles at school
Charleen and Jason getting married on Neighbours and the song that went with it.
Cuddling up to my Dad on a sat evening to watch Knight Rider and the A-Team
Staffies !!
Holidays at Butlins
Dropping my brother he was 3 months old i was 7 whoops
Hair Crimping
Platform shoes
Naf Naf coats ( and they were Naf)
Gordon the Goffer
Mum's obession with Cleaning ( not rubbed off)
Always being reminded of my manners

Spam fritters for tea.
New sandals in the summer.
Mum at the sewing machine making me another dress.
Dad going to the pub Sunday lunchtime while mum made the roast.
Watching the Sunday afternoon musical on the TV.
Mum teaching me to knit.
...and soooo much more..... :)

vicki i still give my kids spam fritters for tea its there fav meal!!!

I remember crombie coats and box jackets ..... we used to go to our nans for sunday for tea and she always had fox's sweets to suck on the way home........my mum always did the washing in the twin tub on Mondays and we used to have to sit on it when it spun or it used to roll off round the kitchen .and the washing was dried in a flatlea??? was that what it was called ???
also ra- ra skirts they were fab !!!!!

It's all round to yours then Saffie.....LOL.  Do you buy them or make your own.  If you buy, who makes them - I would lurve to have some again!

do they still do cola bottles?

ra ra skirts. I remember them!!!!!

Yes they do, but they dont seem to taste the same when your an adult !!

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