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Close your eyes and go back in time...

Before the Internet...

Before semiautomatics, joyriders and crack....

Before SEGA or Super Nintendo...

Way back........

I'm talking about Hide and Seek in the park.

The corner shop.

Hopscotch.

Butterscotch.

Skipping.

Handstands.

Football with an old can.

Fingerbob.

Beano, Dandy, Buster, Twinkle and Dennis the menace.

Roly Poly.

Hula Hoops, jumping the stream, building dams.

The smell of the sun and fresh cut grass.

Bazooka Joe bubble gum.

An ice cream cone on a warm summer night from the van that plays a tune.

Chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or maybe Neapolitan or perhaps

screwball.

Wait......

Watching Saturday morning cartoons, short commercials or the flicks.

Children's Film Foundation, The Double Deckers, Red Hand Gang,

Tomorrow People, Tiswas or Swapshop?, and 'Why Don't You'?

or staying up for Doctor who.

When around the corner seemed far away and going into town seemed

like going somewhere.

Earwigs wasps, stinging nettles and bee stings.

Sticky fingers.

Playing Marbles. Ball bearings. Big 'uns and Little 'uns.

Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, and Zorro.

Climbing trees.

Making igloos out of snow banks.

Walking to school, no matter what the weather.

Running till you were out of breath, laughing so hard that your

stomach hurt.

Jumping on the bed. Pillow fights.

Spinning around on roundabouts, getting dizzy and falling down was

cause for giggles.

Being tired from playing....remember that?

The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.

Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.

Football cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle.

Choppers and Grifters.

Space Hoppers.

Eating raw jelly. Orange squash ice pops. Vimto and Jubbly lollies.

Fruit Salads and Black Jacks.

Remember when...

There were two types of trainers girls and boys, and Dunlop Green

Flash and the only time you wore them at School was for P.E.

and they were called gym shoes or if you are older plimsoles) You

knew everyone in your street and so did your parents.

You didn't sleep a wink on Christmas eve.

When nobody owned a purebred dog.

When 25p was decent pocket money

Curly Whirlys.

Space Dust.

Toffo's.

Top Trumps.

When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.

When nearly everyone's mum was at home when the kids got there.

When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him or use him to

carry groceries and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.

When being sent to the head's office was nothing compared to the fate

that awaited a misbehaving pupil at home.

Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't because of

drive by shootings, drugs, gangs etc.

Parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat and some of us are

still afraid of them.

Didn't that feel good?

Just to go back and say, Yeah, I remember that!

Remember when....

Decisions were made by going "Ip, Dip, Dog Sh*t"

''Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.

Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in Monopoly The

worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was germs.

And the worst thing in your day was having to sit next to one.

It was unbelievable that 'British Bulldog 123' wasn't an Olympic

event.

Having a weapon in school, meant being caught with a catapult.

Nobody was prettier than Mum.

Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better.

Taking drugs meant orange flavoured chewable aspirin.

Ice cream was considered a basic food group.

Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true.

Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest

protectors.

 

If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

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Big J R

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..... going into the sweetie shop with 1d. (12 to the shilling = 5 pence in todays money), and buying FOUR blacks-jacks, known as 'Farthing Chews'

 

Getting a haircut for a tanner (6d = two and a half pence !)

 

Rickets.

 

 

Polio.

 

 

Diptheria.

 

 

National Health Orange juice, AND I remember the end of rationing !

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