School Holiday-The Old Days

Zoetoes

Rose petal perfume

Papier mache pots then paint them

Miniature gardens in old biscuit tins etc

Memory_Girl

Clipping a playing card on the back spokes of your bike to make a "helicopter" noise?

MG

Soubrette

What??? I didn't invent rose petal perfume?

My friend and I were going to sell ours as "'appleday' for every day". (We were only 6 or 7)

Except the next day it smelt like toffee

No earwigs though thankfully.

tankgirl1

great thread!

i did the rose petal perfume too :rotfl:

making dens/treehouses
playing british bulldog or hide and seek
forming clubs, and making membership certificates lol
riding for miles on my bike
going out at 8am in the morning and not having to be home till 6pm
walking for miles thru the countryside exploring
finding rivers and walking as far up river as we could manage with just wellies
pestering every horse owner in a 5 mile radius, and later, spending all day down the stables - I worked for rides - basically looked after someone elses horse for free just so i could ride it
going on day long pony treks with a packed lunch, or hacking to my house and tying the horse up on the drive (eek!)

later as a teenager i spent all my spare time on a local farm, again working for rides - dosing sheep, mucking out, muckspreading etc etc. Walking for miles with my pooch

Good times!

butterfly72

tankgirl1 wrote: »

going on day long pony treks with a packed lunch, or hacking to my house and tying the horse up on the drive (eek!)

I used to do this with my pony!! I would ride him from the stables and put him in the back garden!

My summers were spent at the stables, gymkhanas, pony club camp, schooling, reading the latest Jill books.....

Also had time for swimming, water fights, bike rides, making dens, Atari competitions, cricket, TV, splashing around on dingies at the marina, boat trips along the river, oh I loved the 6 week holiday! I just fancy one now!!!

mumto2loves

reading all these posts actually makes me feel a bit sad, i wish my kids could have school holidays like these.:(

jakes-mum

I also made rose petal perfume (or any flower petals I could find, made no difference it all smelt like cac! Can understand now why my mum looked far from pleased at each offering)
Climbed up on the wall of the 'haunted house' daring each other to jump down and go in
Visiting the park
hide and seek with my sisters, and laughing at them screaming my name as they couldnt find me on the top shelf of our airing cupboard with towels on top of me (surprised i never suffocated!!:eek:)
Making our own 'fete' complete with hand made posters put up round the village then chickening out at the last minute.
My sisters used to like to get me to climb out the upstairs window onto the garage roof and then lock it behind me :rotfl:
Thinking about it at 5 years old, they also used to get me to climb dads tall ladder to get in the upstairs small window when my eldest sister forgot the house keys :eek:
Riding bikes
Skipping ropes
playing in the paddling pool
nicking a carrot out of mums cupboard to go feed the horse in the field by the school

My son is no different, he's out the house at the crack of dawn, barely eating breakfast, off on his bike with his mates down the park, back for lunch, then out till tea and if I let him will be out again after that till 9pm

tankgirl1

butterfly72 wrote: »

I used to do this with my pony!! I would ride him from the stables and put him in the back garden!

My summers were spent at the stables, gymkhanas, pony club camp, schooling, reading the latest Jill books.....

Also had time for swimming, water fights, bike rides, making dens, Atari competitions, cricket, TV, splashing around on dingies at the marina, boat trips along the river, oh I loved the 6 week holiday! I just fancy one now!!!

Awww! I never had my own pony or horse, but thanks to my enthusiastic mucking out skills, I usually had a pony I could ride as a kid

I LOVED the Jill books (that was the one where she won the grey pony right?) - and anything Pullein-Thompson:D

tankgirl1

Loved those books too where she had a crazy chestnut mare she used to ride to school...Jinny? Oh and the Silver Brumby series are an all time fave

flippin36

mumto2loves wrote: »

reading all these posts actually makes me feel a bit sad, i wish my kids could have school holidays like these.:(

I know I felt the same reading and remembering. But actually thinking about it we did get into fights and mischief an awful lot and I went to casualty most summers; I ate laburnum pods one year and had my stomach pumped, I had stitches in my forehead from bashing my head open out playing, I had stictches in my foot from paddling in the stream. I also remember being chased by some rough kids from the estates and being scared to go out for the rest of the holidays, I'll never forget the summer my friends got caught shop lifting and being annoyed they had been to town without me.......just to take the rose tinted glasses off for a moment .