What's something that absolutely screams ‘British childhood’ to you?’

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Going to the corner shop for some custard creams

Oooh...must look into that.
I just had a look at the Misty Wikipedia page and my mind is truly boggled.

'The Four Faces of Eve — Eve Marshall develops retrograde amnesia after an accident, and is unable to understand why her parents have become hateful towards her. She eventually discovers that she is a re-animated entity made from the corpses of four different girls, and her "parents" are really the scientists in charge of the experiment.'
'Blood Orange — A greengrocer's daughter becomes suspicious of a wealthy old man who buys oranges from her father. It turns out the man is a vampire who is being supplied with large quantities of blood inside the fruit.'

I can't believe I read these at eight years of age. 🤣

Follyfoot is on Youtube, I've watched a few episodes, didn't remember any of them when I watched again. The actor who played Steve has just died😭

This thread has reminded me of so many things, I was born late 50's but a lot of the 70's and 80's stuff seems so familiar

Banana Splits anyone - the TV programme?

Making dances to songs like ‘Fame’ with my sisters (hair brush microphones and my mum’s old nighties out of the dressing up basket) to show long suffering parents.
Sometimes would charge 10p and make tickets.
I even remember putting tennis balls up out tops as well to have ‘boobs’ while prancing about singing ‘like a virgin’ by Madonna
My poor dad.

Penny sweets
bonfire gangs (guarding your fire and going door to door asking for wood)
bike rides with friends
camping
swimming in lakes and the sea
dogs playing out with us
playing at your friend’s and being invited for tea/to sleep over.
board games
pet mice
playing out all day
tennis across the street- hardly any cars.

born in 66.

I really wanted white mice like the ones on Playschool but my mother was terrified of them.

Yes! I remember eating my tea on front of neighbours and home and away..once dad came home that was it, the tv was his.
Had totally forgot about playing what's the time Mr wolf @Dutchhouse14 also buckaroo (loved this)

Yeah and my mum ALWAYS ate mine. Right there in the car in front of me, she'd scoff the whole slice and lick her fingers indulgently. She'd say "the cake is actually for them mummies, because we bring you here and buy the present".

That would never fly with my daughter! 😂

Watching Zorro, Champion the Wonder Horse then Bagpuss on a Saturday morning. And awesomely creepy shows like Shadows, Children of the Stones and Beasts.

Gamebooks, with numbered paragraphs, a special dice, and “items”, such as a codebook, and a password scroll, which was a plastic sheet with holes which you would place over a jumble of letters, and a password would be revealed.

Living in Velcro trainers until I was ten, because I couldn’t do laces until then; and wearing them without socks in summer, to the disapproval of the adults, even though we wore them that way to walk to school PE.

Look up James Partridge. He has a podcast and does live shows called Primary School Bangers ❤️

Soggy sandwiches, spending all day walking the hills with my friends, glass jars of sweets at the corner shop weighed out into paper bags, staying out as long as it was light.

Frey Bentos steak and kidney pies
butterscotch Angel Delight
Apeel (but only eaten like sherbet, never mixed into a drink like it was supposed to be)
Look-in magazine
The A team and Knight Rider, Tales of the Golden Monkey
NO health and safety- I used to stand up in the back seat of my parents soft top car holding onto the roll bar!
ice magic
Towelling clothes
bike rides and den building , water fights
staying on the beach late and eating chips as the sun went down. Never was anything so delicious!

<Sigh> an eighties childhood was the best

Tizwas 😍. Loved the Phantom Flan Flinger & Lenny Henry.

Jam sandwiches

2p machines

Playing kerby

Pulling wheelies.

Tree swings / tarzies

Ice cream van

Water balloons

Making daisy chains

Jumping becks

Ice pops

Collecting things. Like rubbers /erasers, or pencil sharpeners .

This was my childhood 80s/ early 90s. Not sure about today's kids

Pocket money for a comic (Summer Bumper ones were a rip off - not much more content than a weekly but double the £) and hopefully enough coins left some sweets to watch Dr Who larking about on our bikes or in a swimming pool. Seeing donkeys on the beach and wave hopping. Matted hair from the wind and salt air. The smell of fish and chips 😃

Oh and bingo callers, cornetto and coach trips 🍦

Has anyone said holiday camps yet?

Catalogues. Circling what you hoped to get for Christmas. I'm pre Argos even!

I loved the mock news at ten with Trevor McDoughnut and Angela Ripoff. BONG! 😂

I used to keep DC occupied on car journeys with the Argos catalogue. Funnily enough no matter how often DC2 circled the blow up Hello Kitty sofa it never materialised....

Does Argos even produce a catalogue any more? Remember years ago when 'the new one' came out and people used to go out to grab one in their lunch hour. It was an Event. The queues were colossal in those days, and now my local branch looks like a sad church hall full of empty chairs.

No, it's all online. (I was in Argos in Sainsbury's a couple of hours ago. They didn't have what I wanted.)

Going to the beach in the rain because we'd said we were going and sitting in the car eating sarnies out of the bag looking at the sea through driving rain.

When it WASN'T raining, going down to the beach armed with the windbreak, putting it up, getting the towels out.

I loved British bucket and spade holidays. Going in the arcades and playing on the penny drop things in the hope of winning the pound note that never bloody dropped even if it was hanging on the edge. Eating cockles off a van with a pin. Being allowed to stay up late.

God, it was brilliant. I live in a seaside town now and still love going down the front, the sound of the arcades and eating fish and chips out of the paper.

More a childhood thing for nowadays, rather than in our time: school groups on a trip where the children are armed with clipboards, and all wearing hi-vis.

Having to be whisper-quiet the morning after a general election, because one or both parents had been watching television all night.

When doing maths from ancient textbooks, when a pound was a lot of money, and being told to ignore half pennies, because we don’t use them any more. “Jill saved a whole pound for her birthday party.”

Freezing on the beach, behind the windbreak, wearing lots of clothes whilst my dad said oh I think it's clearing up.