School Holiday-The Old Days

lollipopsarah

oh what a wonderful post - thankyou
I remember with tennis balls - er juggling at the wall?
and jacks
happy days
xx

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flippin36 wrote: »

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 .

All character building stuff though

Plus, the scars of childhood make for interesting tales to tell the children/grandchildren. I've got scars from all sorts of "fun" things I did during school holidays :rotfl:

lollipopsarah - we called it "two ball" (until you because really, really, experienced and then it evolved to "three ball" :rotfl:)

SandC

tankgirl1 wrote: »

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!

Believe it or not, these days kids have to PAY for the privilege of mucking out and looking after horses. I kid you not.

tankgirl1

SandC wrote: »

Believe it or not, these days kids have to PAY for the privilege of mucking out and looking after horses. I kid you not.

This isn't a sarky post is it? Saying that you have to pay to keep a horse? I know they are expensive beasts! No offence intended, just not sure how to read it

Sadly I can well imagine some places charging kids to do a grooms work And then charging them again for a riding lesson...