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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.

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JanH · 16/06/2006 23:02

\link{http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/chocolateish-c-11.html\Brown gems too, and choc fish and chips, and chewing nuts - used to love those!}

themoon66 · 16/06/2006 23:03

She crocheted me a bikini - can you imagine the shame?

foundintranslation · 16/06/2006 23:03

Ice creams in summer - Mini Milk, Funny Feet, Dracula

My mum forcing me to wear my hair in bunches - and not being allowed open-toed or slip-on shoes, despite desperately wanting them

Being really shocked when they changed the BBC logo to that very hi-tech looking see-through globe

Speaking of TV logos, being scared of the ATV logo

Freaking out at scary public information films ('Don't fool around with fireworks' and kids getting electrocuted flying kites near pylons)

Wearing a Bros badge from Hi! magazine on my (very fetching lemon yellow) jacket in 1st year secondary

QE · 16/06/2006 23:05

Remember the fish n chips crisps, too?

I remember being dragged to Clarks or similar for shoes and being forced to have a pair of brown (really naff to wear brown school shoes at my school) schoolshoes which I detested and always took great pleasure in scuffing them on purpose to try and wear them out more quickly.

QE · 16/06/2006 23:06

...I used to wear a denim jacket with my favourite band badges sewn on the back.

ruty · 16/06/2006 23:06

my first crush at 4 was the Six million dollar man. My sister used to get his picture out and i would kiss it wildly, to entertain her friends. And then came along the Bionic woman, and then I had a crush on her too. It was very confusing.

Fish and Chips in newspaper as a treat. And half penny sweets - took all your fillings out in one go.

BettySpaghetti · 16/06/2006 23:06

HC -trouble is, now I'm an adult and parent I can see my Mums point to a certain extent. I hate spending a fortune on kids clothes that they grow out of in no time especially overly "fashionable" (ie. mini-adult) clothes.

However, I will try very hard not to force my DD and DS into some grotesque home-made creations Wink

themoon66 · 16/06/2006 23:08

Just read some of these out to DH and he is getting all nostalgic now too.

notanotter · 16/06/2006 23:09

white/brown gems were rainbow drops
american sherbert?
the top of ones mouth all tattered from cola/pineapple cubes

2shoes · 16/06/2006 23:10

those public info films were scarey.
partys where the prize in the pass the parcel was really naff(hair grips)

themoon66 · 16/06/2006 23:11

Sheets of hard toilet paper (san izal?) over a comb to make an instrument called a comb organ

JanH · 16/06/2006 23:11

Oh yes - Andrex just doesn't cut it when you want to play your comb, lol!

foundintranslation · 16/06/2006 23:13

Oh Izal toilet paper... my mother's great-aunt lived in a two-up two-down with an outside loo and she had Izal. Remember going to visit her and going out the back to the loo.

SaintGeorge · 16/06/2006 23:14

The worst public info film was the one about playing near water. Loads of spooky shots of junk in water and this cowled, death like figure wandering around.

And the 'Charlie says' cartoon ones with the kid and his yowling cat.

foundintranslation · 16/06/2006 23:15

\link{http://www.tv-ark.org.uk\I love this site}

Public info films, old ads, TV logos, schools TV etc. etc.

FrannyandZooey · 16/06/2006 23:17

I liked watching Noel Edmonds on Swap Shop
Playing Charlie's Angels with my friends
Riding my yellow scooter around the garden path, down the drive and onto the pavement, seeing how far you could get before you had to put your foot down again.

At my friend's house you had to be very careful in the front room because if you got crumbs on the sofa her mum would go mad. She once laughed while drinking lemonade and it squirted out of her nose and her mum smacked her Shock. We used to play on the bunk beds at my house and do rudey things like show each other our bottoms. Once she threw her knickers out of the window and they landed on the roof Shock Another smack :( It was worth it for the laugh we had about it though.

At school if you finished your work and sat quietly you were allowed to go and do jobs for the teachers. The best was going to fetch the guillotine. Once we got to feed the stick insects but we were so scared of them I don't think they got much food. There was pink toilet paper stuck onto the ceiling of all the toilets where people had wet it and thrown it up.

2shoes · 16/06/2006 23:18

i always remember the ones about a boy scalding himself and kids playing in a haystack(with matches I think) they were the talk of the school the next day

ruty · 16/06/2006 23:18

oh Soda Stream and Slush Puppies. [suprising i've got any teeth left.] And I was always Sabrina FZ. Grin

ruty · 16/06/2006 23:19

and a roller skating disco! We used to go every Saturday in our leg warmers. [sigh]

KBear · 16/06/2006 23:20

We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun
But the stars we could reach were just starfish on the beach

2shoes · 16/06/2006 23:22

omg I love that song

2shoes · 16/06/2006 23:23

what was that really sad song about planting a tree?

moondog · 16/06/2006 23:23

Brilliant F&Z. Grin

JanH · 16/06/2006 23:24

Oh gawd, Honey? Yeuch!

JanH · 16/06/2006 23:25

I laughed at her and she got mad the first day that she planted it was just a twig

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