Favourite childhood memories

[Happydays]

Back to the pond not black!

I rather liked your Scottish tadpoles, frog sporron.

Ha ha, me and my fat fingersand I can't edit on . Kindle

[Ray B]

Nearest I got was an empty washing up liquid bottle.

You had washing up liquid ... and a bottle
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The bottle wasn't ours. We had nothing to wash up.

Ahh, so this repurposing from the neighbors goes all the way back to childhood then.

[Stephen]

All I remember was how long the days were when out and about. Now weeks and years flash by in a blink of the eye.

[Manoverboard]

How any under 10's have that much freedom these days? No one cared as long as we came home in time for tea!

I think they cared but they didn't worry ... but in those days they didn't need to.

Mobietta went to work on the train all by herself to London and back when she was only 15, Mummies of today would have to go with them no doubt
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[Onelife]

All I remember was how long the days were when out and about. Now weeks and years flash by in a blink of the eye.

Nothing changes does it Stephen.....fifty years on you're still a miserable barst**d

[Meg 50]

All I remember was how long the days were when out and about. Now weeks and years flash by in a blink of the eye.

it is something to do with 'percentages'.

to a five year old - a year is 20% of their lifetime- ie feels like forever.

to a 50 year old it is 2 %

to an 80 year old 1.25% - ie goes past in the twinkling of an eye!

[screwy]

In our small village you would hear various kids names being called to meal times by mothers ,from the doorstep.No matter where you were ,you would hear the plaintive cries.

[Stephen]

All I remember was how long the days were when out and about. Now weeks and years flash by in a blink of the eye.

Nothing changes does it Stephen.....fifty years on you're still a miserable barst**d

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[Stephen]

All I remember was how long the days were when out and about. Now weeks and years flash by in a blink of the eye.

it is something to do with 'percentages'.

to a five year old - a year is 20% of their lifetime- ie feels like forever.

to a 50 year old it is 2 %

to an 80 year old 1.25% - ie goes past in the twinkling of an eye!

They were my exact thoughts Meg

[Onelife]

I'm posting this as a punishment for unwittingly telling porkies...I was the one with the guns, the news paper was the Sunday Mercury, and I five years old.

[Stephen]

Looks like The Milky Bar Kid tap dancing with a couple of extras from Red Riding Hood

[Manoverboard]

Goodness me .... you haven't changed at all

ps .... just a thought, do you still keep in touch with the two other little girls ?
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[Onelife]

Looks like The Milky Bar Kid tap dancing with a couple of extras from Red Riding Hood

Never a truer word spoken Stephen.... l must have been a little bit older when had got my first glasses and it was from then on one of my Aunt's started calling me the "milky bar kid" ....l actually did look like the lad but as the years rolled by that geek turned into the handsome chap l am today.....but then you know that don't you

[Onelife]

Goodness me .... you haven't changed at all

ps .... just a thought, do you still keep in touch with the two other little girls ?
.

Mob....The ladses on the right was a good mate, sadly he passed away about about seventeen years ago.....He was a dam good footballer and a very popular chap around Henley. The other lived opposite me but we were never mates as he kept hitting me, that is until one day my mom jumped over his fence and gave him a bloody good hiding.....l kid you not.....and no his parents didn't say a word was my recollection.

You didn't mess with my mom....Oh, No!!

[Manoverboard]

My old Mum was a gentle soul who wouldn't say boo to a goose ... she and I had much in common

[Onelife]

My old Mum was a gentle soul who wouldn't say boo to a goose ... she and I had much in common

In other words our Mum suffered with.... Dissociative identity disorder (DID)

[Manoverboard]

My old Mum was a gentle soul who wouldn't say boo to a goose ... she and I had much in common

In other words our Mum suffered with.... Dissociative identity disorder (DID)

Good heavens no, mine deffo didn't have a split personality. No, not as all, she was as normal as you normal could be.

[Stephen]

Looks like The Milky Bar Kid tap dancing with a couple of extras from Red Riding Hood

Never a truer word spoken Stephen.... l must have been a little bit older when had got my first glasses and it was from then on one of my Aunt's started calling me the "milky bar kid" ....l actually did look like the lad but as the years rolled by that geek turned into the handsome chap l am today.....but then you know that don't you

I think you need to revisit the opticians

[Stephen]

My old Mum was a gentle soul who wouldn't say boo to a goose ... she and I had much in common

What's a mum.

I always thought it was a deodorant.

[Quizzical Bob]

Looks like The Milky Bar Kid tap dancing with a couple of extras from Red Riding Hood

Never a truer word spoken Stephen.... l must have been a little bit older when had got my first glasses and it was from then on one of my Aunt's started calling me the "milky bar kid" ....l actually did look like the lad but as the years rolled by that geek turned into the handsome chap l am today.....but then you know that don't you

I think you need to revisit the opticians

Or try a drive to Barnard Castle.

[Onelife]

My old Mum was a gentle soul who wouldn't say boo to a goose ... she and I had much in common

What's a mum.

I always thought it was a deodorant.

Are you 'Sure'?

[Manoverboard]

It could even be a ' Dove ' if posted within the Bird Topic

[cruisin_duo]

Childhood memories - fruit salad, sherbet dib-dab, gob stoppers and aniseed balls. Couldn’t eat any of those now - too sweet.

[Stephen]

Childhood memories - fruit salad, sherbet dib-dab, gob stoppers and aniseed balls. Couldn’t eat any of those now - too sweet.

Not forgetting Jamboree bags and when things like Mars bars were a proper size.

[Onelife]

Childhood memories - fruit salad, sherbet dib-dab, gob stoppers and aniseed balls. Couldn’t eat any of those now - too sweet.

Oh! Yes, those gob stoppers.......you could make them last three days before getting down to that tiny nut kernel.