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 privet.
Beech nuts.
Phrases like bob-a-job.

The smell of real authentic Play-Doh straight out of its tub.

Aapri?

Over ripe bananas, eating ice, sea salt crusted on my Childrens bodies, mosquito nets, the smell of fish frying

SMELLS -
Cut grass
Peach body cream
Stationary shop
Cold tar soap
Sun tan lotion
Leaking gas on hob
Estee Lauda
Tar on roads
Swimming baths
Smoky bacon crisps

Phrases like bob-a-job

Yes - at Brownies.

I’m a bit like this - it is sad. However, DS11 (who is now in secondary and thinks he’s about 26) recently said to me that when he sees people with a frozen drink it reminds him of when he was in primary (last year 😂) because if they go on a summer school trip I always put their water bottles in the freezer!

I also love sharpening pencils and washing paint pots at work because it reminds me of quiet moments in primary school doing jobs in the cloakroom.

The smell in the air after bonfire night
Homemade chips with beans and a fried egg
Gloss paint just before Christmas

It's interesting how many of these are smells

Isn't it? Smells are so evocative.

certain songs, TV theme tunes from the 80s. I was in a charity shop recently and spotted one of those pot chickens for keeping eggs in, they had one on the TV show bread that they used to all put money in. Well I had to buy it as it took me right back to my 80s childhood as we had one exactly the same.
Sunday roast dinner smell.

The smell and taste of crinkle cut chips made by my mum in the deep fat fryer.

Z Cars theme tune. When that came on, it meant it was past bedtime. Can remember being very young and sitting on the stairs, hearing Z Cars coming on in the living room and sniggering to myself because my parents were still talking and hadn't realised I was still up. I had my flanelette pyjamas on so I must have had a wash already.
Same for Coronation Street theme tune - when it finished I had to go to bed.

The 999 theme tune.

Dunhill cigarettes. Walked into a shop one day where an elderly man must have just had one. Took me right back to bring with my grandfather

I don't live in the same area anymore so don't smell it but the smell of sugar beet on an Autumn day always reminds me of being young.

Music. Takes me right back to certain places and memories.

The smell of paraffin heaters.
Lifebuoy soap.
TCP and Germolene.
Findus Crispy Pancakes
tv That’s Life, Bullseye, Russ Abbots Madhouse, Generation Game, Fools & Horses.

Anything German - hearing it spoken or seeing a German item in a shop. I lived there through my childhood and teenage years.

Wright's Coal Tar Soap, Foxes Glacier Mints, Lime Marmalade.... Hearing Charlie Pride singing Did You Happen To See The Most Beautiful Girl In The World. Van Der Valk Theme music...
All remind me of the couple who used to help look after me when I was a child...

Mercurochrome

Hearing the nutcracker as it reminds me of my Xmas plays at primary school. Every time I hear it, it takes me back to my childhood.