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What childish things do you still love doing?

89 replies

Hangingover · 10/09/2020 13:35

Today I spent a very calming at the beach hour making a title out of sand. I used to do this when I was a little kid, always making different animals.

Also adore climbing, although these days it's more ropes and climbing walls rather than trees.

Cartwheels on any open stretch of grass.

Marmite toast and hit chocolate while reading a famous five.

Swimming underwater.

What about you?

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Hangingover · 10/09/2020 13:35

TURTLE obviously Grin

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purpledagger · 10/09/2020 13:37

If I eat something like fish and it has a head, I will pick it up and start moving its jaws and 'talking'.

rbe78 · 10/09/2020 13:39

Rock pooling
Saving best til last
Eating Jaffa Cakes by nibbling round the outside, then eating the cake, then the chocolate, and the jelly last
Being asleep by midnight the night before Christmas/my birthday

NastyBlouse · 10/09/2020 13:42

Audiobooks at night, which is essentially being read a bedtime story Blush

Hangingover · 10/09/2020 13:46

I listen to audiobooks constantly NastyBlouse ! Always had them as a child too.

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FallonsTeaRoom · 10/09/2020 13:54

A glass of hot milk with a spoon of sugar and 2 malted milk biscuits. Smile

Reading Famous Five or Chalet School books.

spiderlight · 10/09/2020 14:16

Kicking through leaves in Autumn, or trying to catch them as they fall from the trees.

TinkersRucksack · 10/09/2020 14:19

Giggling at farts and jokes about bottoms

Coffeecak3 · 10/09/2020 14:20

Going on the swings in a park.
Sucking sherbet through a liquorice straw.
Reading The Famous Five and wishing I could have those adventures.

HeyLala · 10/09/2020 14:38

Flying a kite 🪁

hardheadedwoman · 10/09/2020 14:40

Collecting conkers!

RobinlovesCormoran · 10/09/2020 14:40

Eating jelly and ice-cream.

candycane222 · 10/09/2020 14:42

Jumping over the waves at the beach!

candycane222 · 10/09/2020 14:43

...and bodysurfing

EasilyDeleted · 10/09/2020 14:43

Scraping the cake mix out of the bowl and eating what's left.

IggyAce · 10/09/2020 14:47

Wave dodging
Leaf kicking
Collecting conkers
If I’m walking I always press the button for the traffic lights even when I don’t need to cross.

HowFastIsTooFast · 10/09/2020 14:51

Going on the swings either in a park or 'wild' rope swings in the woods, there are lots near us.

Drinking chocolate milkshake or little cartons of orange juice with a straw.

I play Animal Crossing on my Switch

Watching Kids movies and reading Roald Dahl

I often sleep with a stuffed Disney toy Blush

HelloCanYouHearMe · 10/09/2020 14:57

Another one for a go on the swings at the park. Maybe the slide too!

Littlefrog99 · 10/09/2020 15:07

I've been teaching my 3yo how to superman on the swing.

I still love to make people jump, especially DP. For a burly alpha male type he certainly does squeal like a girl Grin

I still cry if my mum calls me to show sympathy if I'm ill Blush

bengalcat · 10/09/2020 15:09

Swings
Wave dodging
Giggling at burps and farts

MonkeyToesOfDoom · 10/09/2020 15:11

Butter and sugar mixed together when feeling like poo. . Which is most the time.

Singing in the car but really badly on purpose to annoy my DD.. I used to do it to annoy my parents..

Swings at the park.. and slides... and roundabouts... And seesaws...

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 10/09/2020 15:13

I find Hama beads very relaxing.

We build Lego too, but that's 'grown up' Lego.

TwoZeroTwoZero · 10/09/2020 15:14

Finding the crunchiest leaves and stepping on them.

Eating jaffa cakes like that advert: full moon 🌕 half moon 🌓 total eclipse 🌑

nettytree · 10/09/2020 15:16

I still go up my parents stairs on all fours. Never do it at my house tho.

TDogsInHats · 10/09/2020 15:19

It's rare that I see one these days, but doing the hop on a chalked hop scotch . I can't resist it.
Also licking the cake batter from the mixing bowl, but these days I scoop a bit out for DH rather than scoffing it all myself. (perhaps that's a grown up thingGrin)

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