for the older generation amongst us....

[Coxy]

.....which is the higher percentage of members according to a recent poll!!

Just sit back relax and dream

Just for a minute, forget everything stressful and read this...............

Close your eyes and go back in time...

Before the Internet...

Before semi-automatics, joyriders and crack....

Before SEGA or Super Nintendo...

Way back........

I'm talking about Hide and Seek in the park.
The corner shop.
Hopscotch.
Butterscotch.
Skipping.
Handstands.
Football with an old can.
Fingerbob.

Beano, Dandy, Buster, Twinkle and Dennis the Menace.

Roly Poly.
Hula Hoops, jumping the stream, building dams.
The smell of the sun and fresh cut grass.
Bazooka Joe bubble gum.

An ice cream cone on a warm summer night from the van that plays a tune.
Chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or maybe Neapolitan or perhaps screwball.


Wait......

Watching Saturday morning cartoons, short commercials or the flicks.
Children's Film Foundation, The Double Deckers, Red Hand Gang,
Tomorrow People, Tiswas or Swapshop?, and 'Why Don't You'? - or staying up
for Doctor Who.

When around the corner seemed far away and going into town seemed like going
somewhere.

Earwigs, wasps, stinging nettles and bee stings.


Sticky fingers.
Playing Marbles. Ball bearings. Big 'uns and Little 'uns.
Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, and Zorro.
Climbing trees.
Making igloos out of snow banks.

Walking to school, no matter what the weather.
Running till you were out of breath, laughing so hard that your stomach hurt

Jumping on the bed. Pillow fights.
Spinning around on roundabouts, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for
giggles.
Being tired from playing....remember that?


The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.

Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
Football cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle.
Choppers and Grifters.

Eating raw jelly. Orange squash ice pops. Vimto and Jubbly lollies

Remember when...

There were two types of trainers - girls and boys, and Dunlop Green Flash
The only time you wore them at School was for P.E.
And they were called gym shoes or if you are older - plimsoles


You knew everyone in your street - and so did your parents.
It wasn't odd to have two or three 'best' friends.



You didn't sleep a wink on Christmas Eve.


When nobody owned a pure-bred dog.

When 25p was decent pocket money
Curly Whirlys. Space Dust. Toffo's.
Top Trumps.
When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.

When nearly everyone's mum was at home when the kids got there.
When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him or use him to carry
groceries and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.

When being sent to the head's office was nothing compared to the fate that
awaited a misbehaving pupil at home.
Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't because of drive-by
shootings, drugs, gangs etc.

Parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat and some of us are still
afraid of them.

Didn't that feel good?

Just to go back and say, Yeah, I remember that!

Remember when....

Decisions were made by going 'Ip, Dip, Dog Sh*t'

'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest.


Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in Monopoly

The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was germs.
And the worst thing in your day was having to sit next to one.


It was unbelievable that 'British Bulldog 123' wasn't an Olympic event.
Having a weapon in school, meant being caught with a catapult.

Nobody was prettier than Mum.
Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better.

Taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable aspirin.
Ice cream was considered a basic food group.


Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true.


Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest protectors.

If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED.

[john johnson]

So true..... And spaz is such an old fashioned phrase too but so un pc

[ian20v]

Good times! being a kid

[red]

Well you brought it all back for me, like it, remember my dads mk1 Cortina wine colour.

[ZermattGT]

Thanks Coxy

[SteveCat]

Brought a tear to the eye that one Al.

Nice line at the end too.Boosts the self esteem in a way.

Nice one

[Hanuman]

Aaahhhh,

A delightful little trip through nostalgia...
hated some of it then too.

But so much, all the same...


And yes. It all rings a bell.


How about 'rag and bone' men with a horse drawn?

And Alf Garnet was shocking, not aspirational...

And the coal lorry every once in a while...

[Lofty]

And lets not forget chalky white dog poo......

[red]

Originally Posted by The Real MSH!

Aaahhhh,

A delightful little trip through nostalgia...
hated some of it then too.

But so much, all the same...


And yes. It all rings a bell.


How about 'rag and bone' men with a horse drawn?

And Alf Garnet was shocking, not aspirational...

And the coal lorry every once in a while...

Ye the rag & bone man! Remember him coming around in his horse and cart collecting old
clothes, good one for got about him,if I remember I used to get a gold fish... o nostalgia..

[Coxy]

Originally Posted by red

Ye the rag & bone man! Remember him coming around in his horse and cart collecting old
clothes, good one for got about him,if I remember I used to get a gold fish... o nostalgia..

we have similar now, it's just that they drive a tranny pick up and go round shouting "any old iron!"