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We where talking about this yesterday and the Easter thread reminded me.
When I was a kid I would go mushrooming with my grandad knew exactly where they where in each field and some where as big as dinner plates.
Which fields had which wild flowers in like ladysmock and I knew a place up the Spinny where white, pink and bluebells all grew together.
I loved being in the country but knew know different.
Saw my first lambs yesterday which made me think about it
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over a year ago
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I too was having this conversation yesterday. When I was younger I would go off with friends building dens, tree houses, playing football, manor, cops and robbers etc...as well as making up our own.
These days you hardly see kids doing this. All they want to do is be on their phones or consoles.
It's like they have lost the imagination to be creative and have fun outdoors. |
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My grandparents would take us in long walks, my sister making us March the bossy madam me. Also going strawberry or raspberry picking. Wish I was a kid again x |
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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago
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I've been laughed at for this before (hey, that's not a problem, I see myself naked and I laugh)...but we used to put a tennis ball into the foot of a stocking and wang it against the wall side to side and up and down...the summer days simply flew by in in Arse End  |
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"I've been laughed at for this before (hey, that's not a problem, I see myself naked and I laugh)...but we used to put a tennis ball into the foot of a stocking and wang it against the wall side to side and up and down...the summer days simply flew by in in Arse End "
I used to do that too! Used to get bollocked by my mum for ruining tights.
Climbing trees and staying up them for hours! |
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"I've been laughed at for this before (hey, that's not a problem, I see myself naked and I laugh)...but we used to put a tennis ball into the foot of a stocking and wang it against the wall side to side and up and down...the summer days simply flew by in in Arse End "
I loved that game.....it was always American tan tights
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Anyone used to have Conker fights?
Used to love going out with my dad, picking the conkers, soaking them in vinegar, nail varnish etc, putting a shoe lace through them and going to war with my friends!
Used to be gutted when I had a champion and it broke to an inferior conker! |
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"I've been laughed at for this before (hey, that's not a problem, I see myself naked and I laugh)...but we used to put a tennis ball into the foot of a stocking and wang it against the wall side to side and up and down...the summer days simply flew by in in Arse End "
we used to do that too
We used to go brook jumping (i always fell in!!!) and fish for minnows and bull heads, climb trees (i fell out and fractured my arm once). Was a bit of a tom boy lol |
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By *londeCazWoman
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"I've been laughed at for this before (hey, that's not a problem, I see myself naked and I laugh)...but we used to put a tennis ball into the foot of a stocking and wang it against the wall side to side and up and down...the summer days simply flew by in in Arse End
I loved that game.....it was always American tan tights
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Was there any other colour that Mam's wore in the 70's?
I now buy "natural" holdups to wear with lighter coloured lingerie, but deep down, I know it's American Tan  |
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stood very stil when the local bobbie caught us being scallywags 
usually a good telling off was enough, occasionally a clout on the ear and then when he saw our Dad in the local we would get it worse..
happy days.. |
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Building damns on the stream so high that we could dive and swim in the water.
Play out from early morning until dusk
Play games like kerby, hopscotch etc...
Make dens in the woods and spend the day there without supervision and never have to be concerned about 'stranger danger'. |
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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago
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The main thing I remember as a kid is buggering off on my bike with my mates in the summer after breakfast and as long as I was home for tea, my parents didn't have a problem....they had no clue where the fuck I was ( I might have said we were going down the Sea Wall, but we could have changed our minds and gone elsewhere)...no way of getting in touch, just trusted to get home before my curfew...I know there were weirdos and paedos around in those days but it was much more of an innocent time...I don't have kids but I still kinda miss that innocence (and I didn't turn out too bad...honest)  |
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Climbing trees
Playing knock and run
Stealing apples from an orchard
Swimming in river and building a 'camp' fire to help us dry out
Rowing a bath tub round a flooded field - think had been left there as trough for horses but when field flooded someone had blocked up the plughole and it became our boat |
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"The main thing I remember as a kid is buggering off on my bike with my mates in the summer after breakfast and as long as I was home for tea, my parents didn't have a problem....they had no clue where the fuck I was ( I might have said we were going down the Sea Wall, but we could have changed our minds and gone elsewhere)...no way of getting in touch, just trusted to get home before my curfew...I know there were weirdos and paedos around in those days but it was much more of an innocent time...I don't have kids but I still kinda miss that innocence (and I didn't turn out too bad...honest) "
The age of innocence has difinately gone! |
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By *londeCazWoman
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Rowing a bath tub round a flooded field - think had been left there as trough for horses but when field flooded someone had blocked up the plughole and it became our boat "
For some strange reason that reminds me of going round my mate's house, age 12 or so, getting her Dad's wheelbarrow out and bodding round the estate pretending it was the Popemobile and the one in the wheelbarrow was being shot...what can I say, we took our entertainment in Arse End where we could |
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By *nne CallanWoman
over a year ago
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"I've been laughed at for this before (hey, that's not a problem, I see myself naked and I laugh)...but we used to put a tennis ball into the foot of a stocking and wang it against the wall side to side and up and down...the summer days simply flew by in in Arse End
I didnt always have a ball so I used a knackered dolls head
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I loved that game.....it was always American tan tights
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kids today know no better in what they do they,ll look back and hopefully be Happy like we can I spent most of my childhood in the garden if only to play Most of the time when I got in my teens I could venture further some of my best Ever times if only looking for toads in the long grass or other creepy crawlies Along with other wildlife, etc. |
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Played outside from, morning till night, without a care in the world! Bike rides, managed to somehow get three of you on a bike!
I had a carrier on my bike took my pet mouse everywhere!
Climbed trees, built dens, picked at the bubbling tar,in the road when it melted in the heat! I'm sure summers, where longer and hotter, back then. Perhaps it just felt that way.
Poked about in the local pond for hours, looking for newts. Oh the innocence of childhood! And now look at you dirty lot! |
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I was the tree climber. It was my responsibility to get up there and tie the rope to the thick overhanging branch across the river. Used to swing (swing??!!!) out and back, with an extra one 'boarding' on each return, until it snapped an we all got soaked! Jeeez 45 years ago! |
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