What suddenly takes you back to your childhood?

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What things suddenly remind you of your childhood?

For me, occasionally a warm and sunny day and hearing a particular birdsong which I think might be a song-thrush.

The smell of pure cotton being steam ironed.

Milk bottles clinking together as they’re put out on the doorstep. I’d hear my mum putting them out after I’d gone to bed. Started to get milk delivered in glass bottles now, and that noise took me right back.

Being cold

Well it certainly isn't madeleine cakes.

Roses Lime Marmalade

Fallen oak leaves in Autumn

The smell of Rooibos tea.

The smell of reheated mashed potato

Wright's coal tar soap.

Ginger nut biscuits
Cicadas
Curtains gently blowing during an afternoon nap
Getting wet in warm thunderstorms

Fondant fancies
The smell of birthday cake candles
Seeing an Austin Allegra

And the smell of Lily of the Valley soap

Bread and egg being cooked at night after we’d been out to bed
jam
and butter sandwiches
Lucozade when sick
waking up to mum cooking for the day

The sound of far-away wood pigeons.

Wood pigeons in the countryside have a far gentler call (city pigeons need to be loud I guess).

People losing control and shouting. Can't handle it.

Someone putting smarties in an eggcup and giving them to me (this almost never happens )
Listening to some songs - mostly dire straits and the human league and local hero
Lime marmalade

Blackcurrant jam. I first tasted it when I was three and in hospital and was given blackcurrant jam sandwiches one day. It was wonderful and I've loved it ever since.

A memorable one is lapsang tea. I first tried it about the age of nine when staying with posh friends of my parents. Didn't have it again until ten years later when someone gave me a packet and it took me straight back to being nine. Not quite like the Madeleine cakes, but similar.

The smell of bbq’s and the sound of lawn mowers.
Both of these things I also associate with my Dad, who passed away 14 years ago. Lovely memories.

The smell of church halls (why do they all smell the same?!)

Boiled eggs and soldiers.

Libraries.

Bonfire Night.

This. No heating, no decent coat, gloves etc.

More cheerfully, the smell of new-cut privet hedges. 🙂

Marigolds in bloom
Bonfires
Certain songs my mum used to play - Dionne Warwick's Heartbreaker, Freedom by Wham!

The smell and warmth of a tumble dryer running.

The theme tune from a touch of frost, morse, cracker etc.

Pepsi from a pub.

Moomins

The archers theme tune.

Marmite on toast.

Dandelion and Burdock. It was a special treat when we went to stay with Grandparents.