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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Suggested to my kids they put glitter on a bin bag for Halloween and the 12yo looked at me in pure disgust.
What's some of your fav bygone memories/activities |
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"Running away from my parents whilst shopping and pretending I was lost to while away the boredom?
ooo you naughty boy, they must have near died  "
That was a particular trick I pulled a few times.
The best was when I pleaded and begged, begged and pleaded to be allowed to camp in the tent in the garden one night.
They finally relented, woke up in the morning and both I and the tent had vanished.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Running away from my parents whilst shopping and pretending I was lost to while away the boredom?
ooo you naughty boy, they must have near died "
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I reckon they legged it |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Making Christmas window snowflakes at school.
You cut out the shape from black sugar paper and covered the snowflake shaped hole in white tissue paper, then hung them on the windows. I used to stare at them a lot. |
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By *ugby 123Couple
over a year ago
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"Running away from my parents whilst shopping and pretending I was lost to while away the boredom?
ooo you naughty boy, they must have near died
That was a particular trick I pulled a few times.
The best was when I pleaded and begged, begged and pleaded to be allowed to camp in the tent in the garden one night.
They finally relented, woke up in the morning and both I and the tent had vanished.
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FFS Joe, what were you trying to do, bump them off??  |
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"Running away from my parents whilst shopping and pretending I was lost to while away the boredom?
ooo you naughty boy, they must have near died
That was a particular trick I pulled a few times.
The best was when I pleaded and begged, begged and pleaded to be allowed to camp in the tent in the garden one night.
They finally relented, woke up in the morning and both I and the tent had vanished.
FFS Joe, what were you trying to do, bump them off?? "
Everyone survived my childhood.
I was impossible but that wasn't their fault - my parents just had an odd one. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Loved playing man hunt, used to be at least 20 of us playing it on the entire estate.
I haven't heard of that, care to elaborate? "
It's kind of like hide and seek, but there were two teams and a base. You had to make it back to base before being caught. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Loved playing man hunt, used to be at least 20 of us playing it on the entire estate.
I haven't heard of that, care to elaborate?
It's kind of like hide and seek, but there were two teams and a base. You had to make it back to base before being caught. "
Oh right gotcha. Thanks  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Snots streaming down my face as I uncontrollably race down a steep hill sitting astride a old Blue Peter Christmas annual precariously balanced on top of a single roller-skate..
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By *isaB45Woman
over a year ago
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Playing spies with the boys.
Brook jumping with the boys.
Playing football with the boys.
(The local girls were obsessed with their Silver Cross toy prams. Boring.)
The expandable roller-skates that you buckled onto your trainers.
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By (user no longer on site)
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Playing runouts in the fog. That was really scary.
Hedge jumping- in those days people had huge hedges separating their front gardens, we would start at one end of the street and race over the hedges. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Snots streaming down my face as I uncontrollably race down a steep hill sitting astride a old Blue Peter Christmas annual precariously balanced on top of a single roller-skate..
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I remember doing something similar with a plastic tray. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Loved playing man hunt, used to be at least 20 of us playing it on the entire estate.
I haven't heard of that, care to elaborate?
It's kind of like hide and seek, but there were two teams and a base. You had to make it back to base before being caught. "
It was Tin Tan Tommy when I was little. The base was a lamp post. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Loved playing man hunt, used to be at least 20 of us playing it on the entire estate.
I haven't heard of that, care to elaborate?
It's kind of like hide and seek, but there were two teams and a base. You had to make it back to base before being caught.
It was Tin Tan Tommy when I was little. The base was a lamp post."
We called it runouts. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Running around the house looking for clothes for the rag and bone man.Usually git a whistle or a balloon lol and a skelp from parents for giving away good clothes."
Listening out for the ding ding of his bell. We got a cup or saucer in exchange for our old clothes. |
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By *al2001Man
over a year ago
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"Loved playing man hunt, used to be at least 20 of us playing it on the entire estate.
I haven't heard of that, care to elaborate?
It's kind of like hide and seek, but there were two teams and a base. You had to make it back to base before being caught.
It was Tin Tan Tommy when I was little. The base was a lamp post."
An empty can was a base and called kick the can around these here parts |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Snots streaming down my face as I uncontrollably race down a steep hill sitting astride a old Blue Peter Christmas annual precariously balanced on top of a single roller-skate..
I remember doing something similar with a plastic tray. "
Plastic tray that's the luxury version,,,, sheesh,,, that's a bit posh ...
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By *isaB45Woman
over a year ago
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"Loved playing man hunt, used to be at least 20 of us playing it on the entire estate.
I haven't heard of that, care to elaborate?
It's kind of like hide and seek, but there were two teams and a base. You had to make it back to base before being caught.
It was Tin Tan Tommy when I was little. The base was a lamp post.
We called it runouts."
Ahhh...runouts! Another brilliant game! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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On christmas day when I was about 6 I cut off my pigtails, wrapped them up and gave them to my mom, plus the red ribbons. She cried! The photos are hilarious.
I loved my rollerskates and my marbles. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"On christmas day when I was about 6 I cut off my pigtails, wrapped them up and gave them to my mom, plus the red ribbons. She cried! The photos are hilarious.
I loved my rollerskates and my marbles."
now that's a story and a half, love it.......i miss penny sweets and only having 10p a day |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I miss my toys. Used to love Action man, although my Dad used to shout at me for digging holes in the lawn to make trenches to re-enact WW1. "
I remember the scar on his face but they never said how Action-Man lost his genitalia  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I loved roller skating. I used to pretend I was Jayne Torvill doing the Bolero.
Then in the Summer I'd play tennis against my nan's shed when Wimbledon was on. Help my Grampy on his Allotment (which involved me looking at the horses in field next door and feeding them grass without them chewing my fingers off).
I'd go swimming with my pals and we'd get a slush puppy on the way home.
Helping my grampy pick the tomatoes from his greenhouse (still love the smell of a tomatoe greenhouse to this day) and we'd have cheese and fresh tomatoes with a drizzle of vinegar and a dot of salt.
Christmas Day with my mum spent down my nan and grampy's in their (posh) front room that had a real fire my grampy would light and it was so cosy.
My grampy would eat real nuts using the nutcracker that would leave bits of shell everywhere that you'd find the next morning with your bare feet, and he'd spend days trying to get the nuts out (steady!!) from under his false teeth
Happy Days |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Loved playing man hunt, used to be at least 20 of us playing it on the entire estate.
I haven't heard of that, care to elaborate?
It's kind of like hide and seek, but there were two teams and a base. You had to make it back to base before being caught.
It was Tin Tan Tommy when I was little. The base was a lamp post.
An empty can was a base and called kick the can around these here parts "
I lived near a mountainside with dirt bankings and played kick the tin with about 30 of my neighbours ranging from a year below me to 8 years older. Great fun in the summer, scary in the dark. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I loved roller skating. I used to pretend I was Jayne Torvill doing the Bolero.
Then in the Summer I'd play tennis against my nan's shed when Wimbledon was on. Help my Grampy on his Allotment (which involved me looking at the horses in field next door and feeding them grass without them chewing my fingers off).
I'd go swimming with my pals and we'd get a slush puppy on the way home.
Helping my grampy pick the tomatoes from his greenhouse (still love the smell of a tomatoe greenhouse to this day) and we'd have cheese and fresh tomatoes with a drizzle of vinegar and a dot of salt.
Christmas Day with my mum spent down my nan and grampy's in their (posh) front room that had a real fire my grampy would light and it was so cosy.
My grampy would eat real nuts using the nutcracker that would leave bits of shell everywhere that you'd find the next morning with your bare feet, and he'd spend days trying to get the nuts out (steady!!) from under his false teeth
Happy Days "
Love this |
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