Childhood & Sentimental memories

sillyvixen

Sunny_Donny wrote: »

Getting a colour television for the 1976 olympics - the first one in the street and all my friends coming to watch it.

you were lucky - we did not get a colour tv until 1984 (possibly the last one in the street) my dad got it tuned in in time to watch one of his all time favorite films on BBC2!! yes we got our new colour telly and sat down to watch it as a family only to watch a black and white classic film:rotfl::rotfl:

poet123

Gosh, so many memories,it is making me quite emotional. Here are mine.

An egg chopped up in a cup when you had been ill,to encourage you to eat.

Going on day trips to the seaside and calling at a pub on the way home,mum and dad had a shandy and we had crisps with little blue packets of salt with coke and a straw inthe glass bottle.

Taking a primus stove to the beach for tea.

Rhubarb,Apple,and blackberry pies made with those pie filllings(name escapes me)

Making tents with the maiden,a sheet,and dining chairs.

My dad and mum "coughing"to distract attention, when anything of an adult nature (tame compared with today)came on tv.

My mum giving me "sums" to do in an exercise book before I started school,how I loved to see a page full of ticks.

Going to my nanas who had my batchelor uncle living with her,he ran a business so needed a phone,which was a novelty.

Playing out with friends,and being at one or others house for tea,and nobody worried, they knew someone was looking out for you.

Bunty,and cutting out the dress up doll on the back page.

Walking day,Easter sunday,and new dresses.

Oh ,I could go on......how I miss my mum and dad.....really happy memeories though.

chalky_75

Lilac blossom and cherry trees full of fruit --- bliss

lindadykes

I loved Sunday tea a "proper tea" as my mam called it, but only after getting over the bread and butter (almost always butter - I hated marg and so did my mum, so if we had marg I knew we were hard up!) that MUST be eaten with the tinned fruit, jelly and evap.

Dad cutting up squares of newspaper and threading them on string to be used in the outside toilet as there was no money for loo roll. ( and being told to give them a good rub between the knuckles of your hands to soften them before use).

I spent a lot of time with my dad's unmarried siblings, two aunts and an uncle who continued to live in the family home, I used to get wrong for pinching the top of the milk to top my nightly ovaltine - but it never stopped me. I always had this when at there house with a big chunk of my aunty Lizzie's home made ground hazelenut cake. I loved that cake, so much so she baked me a whole one and sent it into the hospital for me following the birth of my first child.

"Cauld warmed up" - usually served on a monday teatime, the leftover Sunday lunch -everything, potaoes, meat, veg, yorkies all chopped up and mixed together and fried, served with a fried egg and bread and butter.

Panaklety and stottie cake.

Spending my pocket money on a 1/4 of haslett, as I loved meat more than sweets!

sb44

Throwing a rope over the sticky out part at the top of an old green metal street light (I think it's what they used to lean the ladder against when changing the bulb), then swinging around the lamp post on it.

Buying a bamboo cane with a net on the end from the newsagents to take to the brook to catch stickle backs and newts.

sb44

That wonderful feeling of getting into a lovely warm bed after a hot water bottle had been in there for a while, we had no central heating in thesixties, just a coal fire and a paraffin heater in the hall.

Olliebeak

sb44 wrote: »

.......the sticky out part at the top of an old green metal street light (I think it's what they used to lean the ladder against when changing the bulb........

From my memories of those streetlights, originally the 'sticky out bit' WAS for a ladder - but it was to 'change the gas mantle' before they became electric.

We still had a 'knocker-upper' when I was very young - not everybody could afford a reliable alarm clock.

recovering_spendaholic

If there was only 2 of us playing out then we would tie one end of a rope around a lamppost and one would turn up while the other one skipped. You never see kids out skipping nowadays. I also loved those American or French skipping games - a big lot of elastic bands knotted together. Two people would put them round their ankles and stand apart and then the others would jump over the sides of the rectangle - I loved it! We also played "two balls" against the wall all the time. We had loads of skipping and two balls rhymes too - my favourite was for two balls - it went "Walls ice cream, overs ice cream, uppy ice cream, droppy ice cream, bouncy ice cream, backy ice cream" and the rest I have forgotten - you did a different throw with each phrase! I got the Bunty on a Monday and the Mandy and the Judy on a Wednesday - I spent all my pocket money on them. Some of my friends got the look and learn but I thought that was rubbish! I loved all the stories in the Bunty etc. but my vERY favourite were the 4 Mary's.

I loved the hot water bottle feeling too! We had no heating in our house except for the coal fire in the living room and, later on, a Calor Gas heater in the hall. In the winter my Mum used to get up really early so the fire would be blazing by the time we got up and she would put all our uniforms on the maiden round it to warm.

rosemarym_2

Lilac blossoms, lilies of the valley, making fuchsia flowers into little fairies, a big fat velvety dark red rose that smelled of lemonade. The almond tree. Our cat and dog having puppies and kittens at the same time, who all played together and were looked after by both mothers. Bread and milk for breakfast (torn up bread with a sprinkle of sugar and hot milk poured over).

poet123

Oh,making rose petal perfume springs to mind.

May Queen

school holiday picnics,with sandwiches and a bottlle of water!

Elastics/catscradle