When I was a kid........................................................

[waterfalls]

My mum often put my hair up with elastic bands and it hurt like hell getting them out....................and awful cheap plasters that became part of your skin, could only be forced of after a long soak in the bath while painfully peeling them off with a knife.

anyone else

used to love baywatch, gladiators, catchphrase etc

I remember going to the seaside on the train with my Nan and all my cousins, falling asleep on the way home and waking up the next morning in bed, all sandy!

Happy Days

Fudges were bigger too!

See where I'm going with this?

I'm stuck in the office with a need for chocolate and not able to get any

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there was one tv programme in the morning and 15 mins of Jackanory in the afternoon - that was it tv wise.

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we used to play out all day and only return for dinner - without our parents worrying.

It was soooooooo exciting to get to be another year older, and also very important to be that extra quarter and half too (I'm 10....'well, I'm ten and a half')

OOh and being Milk monitor and getting to ring the bell at prep school

All 6 of us kids travelled everywhere in the back of the car (4 across and 2 on knees) and noone batted an eyelid.

i always had to travel in the boot of my dad's ford cortina estate as well! ouch it hurt if you hit a bump in the road. and we used to wave at all the other drivers, kids don't do that now do they!

oooh yes....the diddy bottle of milk at school....I miss those:(

the little glass bottles of milk with blue straws before they changed them to cartons. they were so cool. but kids nowadays would prob bottle each other

Sweetmonkey, those tv programmes were on when I was an adult, not a child

It's weird that our kids will never know opal fruits and marathons isn't it? lol

DS1 (8) saw an advert yesterday for a portable colour TV and asked me if he could have one and what colour would it be? I had to then explain to him that it just meant that it wasn't a black and white screen - he looked at me like I had arrived from Mars!!

i played on the construction site next door to the house - mum knew where i ws. i used to climb scafflding and mess around in half finished houses.

we had houses knocked down accross the road from us we called it the croft - derelict piece of land for years.

my friend kay and i used to go and get bricks and stack up two rows and make orselves a house and then pick flowers for the house - and find cups for the house - etc etc - all treasures from the demolished houses.

we had records!!! Ds asked me what one was the other day, I said it was a record and it had music on it, he said 'so it a big CD!!!!

also we used to play in a old boarded up school, lots of fun!!!

Remember Texan bars. Really chewy and stuck to your teeth!! Also Space Dust.

our spectrum 48k was a state of the art computer!

playing Horace goes skiing and Jumping Jack...those were the days!

marathons were marathons

and staying out till dark with my mates and our bikes, in the woods, up trees, down by the river and noone worried

zx spectrum and a dragon 32

I could take 10p to Aunty Dot's sweet shop and buy Fruit salads, black jacks, penny chews, flying saucers and candy cigarettes, all put in a paper bag - no branding - and they would last me all week.

8 blackjacks/fruit salads for 1 peeny (old money)

sweetmonkey how old are you?????????

... using the tags from bread wrappings on the brake lines of my bike
... playing out all day in the school holidays reuturning for food and my parents not worrying
... travelling in the back of a van to my aunties house
... no seat belts
... going on holiday in the middle of the night, quilts over the back seats so me and my sisters could lie down and go to sleep
... wanting to go on jim'll fix it

lots of stuff cost 99 and 1/2 pence

curly wurlys were huge ..

stylophones