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.

I remember going to watch them shoot the film Willow in the quarries!

Sadly every time I read/hear about the Rotherham abuse cases, or when children are terribly neglected and murdered and I think that could so have been me, I struggle to think of a happy memory :-(

Tinned salmon (special tea when grandparents came to tea)
The smell of Quink Ink

The smell of flowering currants - I’m immediately running round our local park aged between 2 and 7 (when we moved away)

The smell of cut grass = the dreaded sports day.

The smell of old tinsel. I still have some vintage bits of it, and the smell is totally different to the modern stuff.

Deadheading French marigolds.

Watching Morecambe and Wise.

The sound of a blackbird singing after a thunderstorm.

Bagpipes
Seagulls
The Archers theme tune
The smell of Fairy non bio
Windswept landscapes and beaches.

And those wooden puzzles that have cutout shapes with little pegs to hold them with

I had psoarsis (sp) on my scalp as a kid. Saturday nights (bath night) my mum would put betnovate on my scalp, wash my hair in polytar shampoo, then get all the scabby bits off my scalp with a nit comb. I hated it, it hurt when she went through my hair with the nit comb and I stank of poly tar until Wednesday.

it’s not often I smell polytar but when I do I’m transported back to Saturday nights in the 70s!

Petrichor

Egg in a cup

Rice pudding

The smell of salty wet wetsuits and home cooked all day breakfast for an evening meal.

A chucky egg(soft boiled egg and butter mixed together in a cup)
Dettol baths for me too,don't know if this was an Irish thing?

Last of the Summer Wine
Imperial Leather soap
Artex ceilings (not that anyone has them any more!)

Eating egg mayonnaise sandwiches.

Most summers we would go on the 8am coach from Victoria Coach Station to Newcastle to visit my Grandmother. We would have set off on the first train of the day to travel across Kent. So we would have egg sandwiches for breakfast as the coach set off through London heading for The North. Oh the excitement!

Scampi fries
calamine lotion
the smell of horses
strawberry lip balm

The smell of Christmas tinsel. It has a definite smell & I love it!

Suncream - reminds me of our big family holidays and being drenched in one that smelt of coconuts.

Certain childhood films

Bread & Butter pudding

Lime jelly with tip top cream from the can - we used to go to my lovely nans every Sunday and she would make us this as a treat

The smell of Privet hedges in flower. I grew up in a flat in London, that had Privet on the ground floor.

The Mamas and Papas song ' Dedicated to the one i love', playing on the radio when my dad had a pretty horrid accident.. hearing it makes me shudder!

Tinned fruit, nanny gave us it at Christmas with canned longlife cream, such a treat!

The smell of peach face cleansing pads. They were abrasive and smelled of peach. I cannot remember their name.

Bullseye on tv on Sunday
Angel Delight
Tinned peaches with evap
Fig rolls

The distinct tangy/smoky smell of a pub in the morning. You couldn't find it now If you tried as people aren't supposed to smoke indoors but all of my family has been involved in the trade and the smell of a Saturday and Sunday morning is so distinct. The smell of the stale booze in the drip trays, dirty carpet, ashtrays etc. Just thinking about it gives me goose bumps as e we were very rarely allowed in the bar as children but early Saturday and Sunday was different as all the adults needed to clear up ready for opening. So we would be sat with a packet of crisps and a drink and would watch the adults. We felt SO grown up. A friend of mine has a shed they smoke in with a bar/DJ equipment set up in it and occasionally after a party there is a faint whiff of it. BAM- I'm back to being 7.

Chopper bikes, Spacehoppers, Cherry jublee,Jamboree bags.

@DimplesToadfoot . You’re not alone, we are the lucky ones.

The Heartbeat theme tune.
Fish fingers cooked in a deep fat fryer.
The smell of TCP

Neighbours ending. Made me think of the 80s a lot.

Souvlaki with tzatziki and chips in a pitta.
Toasted sesame pretzels
The smell of ambre solaire.