School Holiday-The Old Days

spaghetti_monster

We did all the usual outdoor stuff too.
One rainy day favourite I remember was that we made our own radio show - we had a small tape recorder with in-built microphone and then would record ourselves making up our own news/weather/features and play some music in between on the main stereo to create the full effect.

Errata

candygirl wrote: »

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

I didn't, but that Marilyn Pearson did

candygirl

Errata wrote: »

I didn't, but that Marilyn Pearson did

I even ended up marrying one of the boys;)Then divorced him:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

barbiedoll

We used to catch the bus into Woolwich and then go on the ferry over to north Woolwich which we pretended was another country! :rotfl:

We borrowed the neighbour's dog so that we could take it for a walk over the local park and we told all the other kids that he was a trained killer dog and that it was a secret so they musn't tell anyone or he would get put down. (We did have very vivid imaginations!)

We did get bored though, I can remember my friend asking a lady who lived in our road if she had any children that we could play with. She said that unfortunately she didn't but she gave us 5p each for some sweets.

I can remember that 5p bought a lot of sweets!

I can remember playing in the field at the end of our road and there was one of those electricity generator buildings with dire warnings about "Risk of Death" all over it. The boys would egg each other on to poke sticks in the door to see if they would get electrocuted. :eek:

One of the kids had a tiny portable record player but only one record. "Sugar Sugar" by the Archies....we played that to death. Whenever I hear it now, I am transported back to her garden which had a big honeysuckle bush full of scary bees. I got stung twice on the bum, the price we paid for wearing mini skirts!

One of the girls in the street had a great dressing-up box full of her mum's old clothes. She had this pink, frilly, sheer nylon gown which we used to fight over. Whoever won would prance up and down the street, looking like Lilo Lil!

And it didn't ever seem to rain during the school holidays!

SailorSam

I remember as kids there were lots of old houses getting demolished, one in particular we use to climb into was a big Victorian or Georgian one, and dead spooky. As we got to the top of the stairs someone had painted, anyone that goes any further will be cursed by the ghost that lives up there.
We all looked at each other and decided it had nothing to do with any ghost, we weren't frightened, but the floorboards didn't look safe So we'd go and play somewhere else.

zaksmum

SailorSam wrote: »

We'd go into town then go on the ferry.
Didn't have enough to go all the way to New Brighton so we'd get the ferry to Birkenhead and walk watching all the ships coming in and out.
Coming home we'd hide in the toilets on the ferry until the next lot of passengers got on, then we were able to keep going back and forth.
We' d get home about 10pm and get battered 'cos we'd been out since early morning.

Ha ha Sam! Got to laugh at the last bit there...got battered as you'd been out since early morning! Imagine that now! Social Services would be there like a shot if your parents even THINK about giving you a smack:)

3v3

zaksmum wrote: »

Ha ha Sam! Got to laugh at the last bit there...got battered as you'd been out since early morning! Imagine that now! Social Services would be there like a shot if your parents even THINK about giving you a smack:)

:rotfl: Think deeper "Children" being out all day (unsupervised!) rolling in a 10pm ... it would be the neighbours reporting to SS "NEGLECT!" before the parents even get a look in!!!!!

Errata

3v3 wrote: »

:rotfl: Think deeper "Children" being out all day (unsupervised!) rolling in a 10pm ... it would be the neighbours reporting to SS "NEGLECT!" before the parents even get a look in!!!!!

Think even deeper - half the local bobbies and all the neighbours would be searching bins and outhouses for dead children long before 10pm

3v3

Errata wrote: »

Think even deeper - half the local bobbies and all the neighbours would be searching bins and outhouses for dead children long before 10pm

Quite! But, in the older days (well, my childhood at any rate) the paranoia wasn't as strong. Equally, today's definition of "misper", in terms of minors, rarely equates to "dead children" - more likely, recalcitrant ones Thankfully!

YORKSHIRELASS

We did all those things too and I am sure it never rained! Thinking back now though I dont ever remember my Mum doing anything with us - except at harvest time when we all walked down to the farm where my Dad worked and took him a flask of tea and some cake.

Mum just always seemed to be busy doing housework and never had time to join in anything with us. As I remember all my friends Mums were the same. I do remember helping her with the baking sometimes or maybe with other household stuff but I cant ever remember her playing with us. I am glad I have the chance to do stuff with my kids - there is a difference between grudgingly entertaining them and actually enjoying being with them and having fun together.