Things you'd love to do again that are gone

[suckingonchillidogs]

I loved the funfairs of the 1970s/80s - trying to win a goldfish in a bag by throwing darts at a card, the ghost train, big wheel, waltzers, chair-o-planes, stuffing my face with toffee apples and candy floss. The music would be blaring (and very cheesy - Bay City Rollers/Racey/Bucks Fizz) and you had to traipse over a muddy field to get there. I know you still get similar things but it's not quite the same. I'd love to relive a 70s Easter weekend at the fair! Anything you wish you could do again?

Not gone for everyone but gone for me. Spend at day back doing camp America in the Catskills. So many adventures and friends and experiences. Getting on a plane with just a backpack and a plan.

Go to Blockbuster and rent a movie

A cinema birthday party, at a local independent cinema that no longer does them.

Go to a Chinese restaurant that's no longer open.

Sent dc to a tap dancing class that didn't open up again after lockdown.

Go to a favourite pub that is no longer open.

Go to the fast food place that I spent a lot of time in as a student.

Go to my grandparents' old house, that is no longer owned by them. But I would only want to go if it looked identical to how it was 20 years ago which, of course, it wouldn't now.

@cluelesscountrycnut

Wake up at my parents house as a teenager on a Sunday. Coming downstairs as a hungover teenager to have my mum in the kitchen all day cooking breakfast then baking cakes for the lunches all week before starting the big dinner. Meanwhile my dad was always tidying the garden and doing odd jobs on his only day off. We'd also have a stream of family popping in for a visit coffee and at some point I'd be given money to walk to the shop and pick up the Sunday papers. My parents are still here and it good health and we often spend weekends there but it's not the same now I've my own kids. Think I also realise now just how lucky I was to have such an upbringing.

Thia is touching.

My parents are divorced and a few years ago we had a christmas together in my dads new house as he had moved and we wanted to all celebrate it. Having both my parents in the house together, while I was on the sofa or upstairs on my bed, had this wierd sense of completeness that I just had forgotten about but it was the same feeling I had as a child of knowing where everyone was doing their own business but also a feeling of being all together ❤

@Nomoresmoresthensnores

Go clubbing at Bagleys or Turnmills then stay up until mid morning the next day in my friends house-share drinking tea and smoking fags before catching tube home. Never gonna happen again for so many reasons (not least that we are now all 50 or over, live far and wide, bagleys/turnmills and pretty much every other club got bulldozered some years ago and are now built on top of, and I don't smoke and can barely stay awake part Midnight). Happy happy days. I never realised how fleeting they'd be.

oh yes! amazing times, ministry, milk, gardening club, pushka, love ranch.

jumble sales

So many fond memories of Blockbusters! So it was just me that stood there wondering what on earth to get, and ruling out all the ones with semi-naked women and guns on the front, so about 50% of the videos!

I'd like to have a conversation with my lovely mum. Dementia is a terrible disease.

A night at Jilly's Rockworld in Manchester. Alternating between the Underworld and the fish bowl.

I'd like to go to a football match with my Dad again. We'd call in to see my wonderful auntie on the way, and buy a bar of dairy milk at the newsagent. Then we'd stand on the terrace, hoping for a goal which meant a celebratory square of chocolate.

We'd set off on the long journey home, stopping part way to call in at petrol station with a vending machine to buy a hot chocolate.

I'd also like to go into town on the bus with my best friend. We would have saved up for ages, and go to the market or Surb Gill to buy a trevira skirt with an inverted pleat.
We'd go to Woollies to look at the single and LP charts, maybe try out some Rimmel testers in Boots. We couldn't afford to go to a cafe or anything, so we'd sit in the park until it was time to go home again. Such happy days.

Have a mooch around Debenhams.

Having a mooch, that should say. I really miss the department stores, also BHS.

Live in the UK when it was an EU member state. I was in 2nd year at uni and applying to go abroad with the Erasmus exchange programme - ended up spending a year in France. After that I went to Spain for a year. Those two years were absolutely incredible, sometimes hard, but I learned so much and travelled and did some odd jobs so I had money. I met people from all over the EU and it was completely mind blowing.