School Holiday-The Old Days

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SailorSam wrote: »

We' d get home about 10pm and get battered 'cos we'd been out since early morning.

You would think your parents would have appreciated the peace and quiet. Some folks cant be pleased hey!

abacus73

My parents worked full time so my school holidays were spent at my grandparents ramshackle cottage in the Lake District. It was bliss for a kid, the freedom was brilliant. I have some very special memories and still get a pang in my heart around school holiday time. I wish I could turn the clock back and enjoy it all again.

faithcecilia

If I ever complained of being bored I was told to get 'unbored', never occured to me to question it, just went and found something to do!

candygirl

We used to make dens, catch tadpoles, go and feed the horses in the local field, bike rides, picking blackberries, playing in dens, climbing trees, making perfume, roller skating, water fights, hide n seek etc etc.We were never ever bored, or molly coddled:D:D

head_above_water

I used to charge my neighbours 5p to see my zoo... acollection of a rabbit, 2 hamsters, 9 goldfish and loads of insects in jars caught from the garden. I would give them a guided tour of our 6x6 shed

bluenoseam

i was happy with a football & enough people for a kick around for 6 weeks i was Ally McCoist and Scotland won the world cup every day, when i grew up we just went down town & hung out!

kids these days...

Naide

Make a bogey
Catching Tadpoles
Brambling
Disappearing on my bike (aged 8), with a jam sandwich in my basket and gone for hours
Being bored rigid but not daring to tell Mam because she'd find something for me to do.
Going to the local park and telling the new kids there that the rocking horse was great, sitting them on the back and watch it flip over. I know, we were evil!
Making dens.
Playing Doctors and Nurses.
Going with my dad to the allotment with my dad
Spending time making things with grandad in his shed
Playing dominoes, Happy Families, Ludo & Snakes and Ladders on rainy days
Picking goose-gobs (gooseberries)
Getting chased by the local farmers for nicking his apples
Going swimming at the local baths (no health and safety then!)
Helping grandma with baking day.
Going for long bike rides and getting up to no good.

Happy Days!!!
I refuse to spend huge amounts of money on my kids during the holidays and we've just come back from a free museum visit and we're having chip butties for tea, followed by ice-cream and berries.
Tomorrow, we going brambling and then I said I'd help my youngest build a den and we'd have our tea in there.

candygirl

Oh yea and we used to play "you show me yours and i'll show you mine":eek::eek::eek::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Errata

If my mum had organised things to keep me entertained during the school holiday, I would have been convinced I was not long for this world !
Kids will always find something to do themselves that will entertain them, and when they can't they discover boredom and learn how to tolerate it.

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Naide wrote: »

.... I refuse to spend huge amounts of money on my kids during the holidays and we've just come back from a free museum visit and we're having chip butties for tea, followed by ice-cream and berries.
Tomorrow, we going brambling and then I said I'd help my youngest build a den and we'd have our tea in there.

Me neither!!! *come on kids, we're going to Naide's for tea ... chip butties, ice-cream and berries .... *