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What would you been doing as a kid at this point of the summer holidays
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Probably miles away from home having cycled there, eaten a home made picnic and playing top trumps with lovely friends I am still friends with many years later. Very lucky in that respect they are awesome still! |
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Probably in the woods making a den with my siblings, climbing trees and damming the brook up, mooching off down the canal to catch sticklebacks  as I got older it would be meeting round friends houses or playing with this new toy called a “Frisbee” it was all the rage in that there ‘Merca |
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With grandparents in Scotland. Days of walking, playing on the shore, seal spotting, skimming, etc. Ending the day making a fire, cooking square sausage and beans in a billy can with marshmallows for afters as the sun went down. Then back home to the caravan, for a game of cards or dominos. |
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"Probably falling out a tree
Ditto hahaha
Max
I don’t think there was a school year I didn’t go back after the holidays without a cast or broken bone "
As a former football and rugby league player, Black eyes and broken bones were the norm for me
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"Probably falling out a tree
Ditto hahaha
Max
I don’t think there was a school year I didn’t go back after the holidays without a cast or broken bone
As a former football and rugby league player, Black eyes and broken bones were the norm for me
Max"
Downhill biking was my biggest cause
That’s how I ended up in the trees to begin with
Always check the trail first folks   |
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By *eah BabyCouple
over a year ago
Cheshire, Windermere ,Cumbria |
My Nan was a caretaker of a school so we would go in there and get all the sports gear out, if raining then play on the indoor climbing frame or mess with the pottery wheel etc. Even dressing up in all the fancy dress costumes , the sweet shop and chippy were next door it was brill, other than that picnics at a lake, beach trips and generally running a muck |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Probably falling out a tree
Ditto hahaha
Max
I don’t think there was a school year I didn’t go back after the holidays without a cast or broken bone
As a former football and rugby league player, Black eyes and broken bones were the norm for me
Max
Downhill biking was my biggest cause
That’s how I ended up in the trees to begin with
Always check the trail first folks "
Hahaha I did my hips on a downhill trail because a newbie went on a black run ffs |
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Playing in the woods or at the football field near my house . Nowadays you go past and hardly ever anyone on there . Used to be loads of us …. yep we were probably a bit feral but healthy |
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Biking down the road to the local boatyard helping out with jobs, and getting to play with the boats, tractor crane great days. Oh not forgetting with the money I earned paid for my Yamaha Fizzy DX moped when I was older |
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By *assy69Man
over a year ago
West Sussex and Wales |
I’d have been roaming the fields and woodland around where I lived, as a youngster I wound be gone all day, as a teenager, I could be gone for several days living life as something like Ray Mears meets Lord of the Flies |
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Probably setting fire to the sand dunes  . Not on purpose. We were up at the crack of dawn and didn't go home until it was dark. The endless Lincolnshire beach on one side and the limitless countryside on the other gave us massive scope for mischief. Have BMX, will travel. The 80's were awesome dude. |
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"Bike ride in the woods, kerby or playing man hunt. Good memories!
My kids have no idea what kerbie is!!!
I had to tell someone on here the other day I thought it was quite common "
It was by me (although I didn't grow up in the uk till I was 10) |
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"Bike ride in the woods, kerby or playing man hunt. Good memories!
My kids have no idea what kerbie is!!!
I had to tell someone on here the other day I thought it was quite common
It was by me (although I didn't grow up in the uk till I was 10)"
Ahh I’ll let you off then |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Bike ride in the woods, kerby or playing man hunt. Good memories!
My kids have no idea what kerbie is!!!
I had to tell someone on here the other day I thought it was quite common
It was by me (although I didn't grow up in the uk till I was 10)
Ahh I’ll let you off then "
Hahaha I thought a couple of friends in Tokyo how to play it when we lived there |
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"Didn't we all have a much simpler than the youth of today!"
Our youth was a constant stream of toy adverts masquerading as kids cartoons, pondering white white dog poo was all about and a terrifying stream of PSA adverts ranging from being electrocuted at power stations to Darth Vader telling us how to cross the road (I wouldn't believe my Mum when she told me at the time lol)...
Poor kids today have social media, back to back news about how the worlds gonna implode any day now and global lockdowns.
Yeah, we had it way better.
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When we were kids, my parents would pack me and my younger brother off to stay with our grandparents in Studland for the summer holidays. Granny would make us a picnic everyday and send us out the door to go hang out with all our cousins for the day. We'd go off up the heath, or to our camp in the woods, or even borrow our grandads binoculars and hide in the sand dunes spying on the nudist beach |
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When we moved back to the UK I had dirt bikes and a 50cc road racing bike that I used to spend lots of time on. Also ending up in trouble. Playing football (pre season was always a killer). Playing rugby league. Ending up in hospital. Lol fun times
Max |
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