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

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waterfalls · 16/06/2006 15:03

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 elseGrin

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2shoes · 16/06/2006 22:51

yeah I remeber him he was really old in real life.
oh and the smell from the perculator was lovely used to like to watch it bubbleBlush

JanH · 16/06/2006 22:51

Sitting in the car in the pub carpark with a bottle of bitter lemon and a packet of Smiths with the blue twist of salt (mum and dad inside pub!)

harpsichordcarrier · 16/06/2006 22:51

yeah and you know what moon - I always have the heating on now Grin

Whizzz · 16/06/2006 22:51

Bay City Rollers - who was your favourite ?

themoon66 · 16/06/2006 22:51

We dammed up a stream and flooded the school once. God there was trouble then.

themoon66 · 16/06/2006 22:52

Bay city rollers - Woody!!!

JanH · 16/06/2006 22:52

No fitted carpets Shock

Did you have chilblains too, harpsi?

2shoes · 16/06/2006 22:52

woody Blush

Whizzz · 16/06/2006 22:53

BCRs....Nooo Eric !

Beauregard · 16/06/2006 22:53

Lazar bars-tasted like middle of cola cube!
10p mix up.
slush puppies.
Popping all the flowers on my mom's fushias.
Flower perfume.
Snail racingGrin
Making a jungle in our garage (mom had cut down the conifers).
Trying to make my dad's car like Kit from knight rider.

themoon66 · 16/06/2006 22:53

Harpsichord - my heating has to run high all year round now.

We used to put our woolly tights on top of the wood burning stove to warm them. They were so cold they got condensation on them as they heated up.

harpsichordcarrier · 16/06/2006 22:53

B-A-Y
B-A-Y
B-A-Y-C-I-T-Y
with an R-O-double L-E-R-S
Bay city Rollers are the best Grin

JanH · 16/06/2006 22:54

Doing rabbit teeth with snapdragons

QE · 16/06/2006 22:55

...our Commodore64 computer games were the ones with a line each side with which you batted the ball from side to side on the screen and we thought it was dead hi-tec!

...we clipped playing cards onto our bike wheels with clothes pegs so they made a noise as you cycled them.

...we played in the park all day, went round other kids houses and played in the woods til almost dark and our parents didn't worry about us.

...I always taped the charts ona sunday night on my state-of-the-art radio, record, cassette player - I became an expert at cutting it off just a fraction of a second before the dj started talking at the end of the song - AND I still have some of them today.

...we went down to the corner shop and bought sweets for half a penny such as little chocoalte buttons with hundreds and thousands on them (what were they called?) and penny sweets like blackjacks, rhubarb and custard and fruit salad chews.

...we climbed trees, played on the railway lines, made dens and played down the sewer tunnels.

harpsichordcarrier · 16/06/2006 22:56

yes I has shocking chilblains, in fact I used to spend my babysitting money on chilblain creams Sad and cherryB Grin
accrding to my mum, it was because I used to try and warm them on the fire and had my hot water bottle too hot Sad
not because the house was like an ice box
I remember trying ot do my home work in about three jumpers, a coat and fingerless gloves

harpsichordcarrier · 16/06/2006 22:57

popping fuschias Shock god I had forgotten about that

BettySpaghetti · 16/06/2006 22:57

I would really desperately want a fashionable item of clothing and my mum would say "I could buy some material and make that for you -it would be much cheaper" - NO I don't want a homemade version, I want the real thing!!

JanH · 16/06/2006 22:58

\link{http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/white-gems-p-481.html\white gems} it says here, QE.

I don't remember that!

harpsichordcarrier · 16/06/2006 22:58

Betty SPaghetti the dread words in our house were "I could knit you one of those for half the price"
yes, in some ropy orange leftover wool Sad

notanotter · 16/06/2006 22:58

another one for constant heating on! My childhood was spent with BLUE lips!

harpsichordcarrier · 16/06/2006 23:00

we used to called them rainbow drops
my favourites were parma violets and football chums and white chocolate fish and chips

themoon66 · 16/06/2006 23:00

I remember doing my homework by candlelight coz of the power cuts.

JanH · 16/06/2006 23:00

I got mine the same way, harpsi - used to come in frozen and sit on top of the fire to thaw out my poor toes. (And had thin shoes, and thin socks, and a long walk home from school in them! Kids today are blessed!)

QE · 16/06/2006 23:00

Yes! JanH, they're the ones. Can you still get them? I don't recall them being called that though - must be getting old!

I started working for the first time in 14 years this week and I found myself saying to the teenagers "oh when I was your age..." I really must stop saying that Blush

themoon66 · 16/06/2006 23:02

Oh my god. This is an ace thread. my mum always claimed she could make anything I wanted from Miss Selfridge. NOOOOO.