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Feb 26, 2010 14:34:55 GMT -1
Post by kerny on Feb 26, 2010 14:34:55 GMT -1
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Feb 26, 2010 15:10:42 GMT -1
Post by THURSOMAN on Feb 26, 2010 15:10:42 GMT -1
That's it not talking to you guys again.
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Feb 26, 2010 16:42:59 GMT -1
Post by izzetafox on Feb 26, 2010 16:42:59 GMT -1
Those were the days when you actually wore out sledges and had to rebuild them. Did we make it into school? Most of the time YES!!! Big coke furnaces to keep the place warm. Milk with 3" of cream spouting out of the top. Massive icicles down the side of the house near the bog overflow. Slides for 20yds down the footpath. Frozen fingers in woollen gloves. Welly rash 'cos you had short trousers. Balaclavas. Leaving a paper cup of squash out with a stick in for a free lolly. ( No deep freezers in houses in them days!!!) Ice on the canal that REALLY was safe to play on. Sucking snow for a drink. ( Noth the yellow stuff though!!!) I remember seeing a proper skating race on a drain in the Fens! Haw frost on the inside of the windows. Coal fires with chestnuts on the grate and toast on wire coathanger forks. NO CARS to spoil your fun!!! Tea tray sleds. Bad Winter 2009-10 ? No way or all the kids would have big smiles and frozen hands, feet and noses just like we did, and they haven't.
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Feb 26, 2010 16:44:59 GMT -1
Post by izzetafox on Feb 26, 2010 16:44:59 GMT -1
Steve.....6 metre snow drifts? ? No way mate we measured them properly then....feet and inches!!! English snow!!!
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Feb 26, 2010 17:05:29 GMT -1
Post by kerny on Feb 26, 2010 17:05:29 GMT -1
Like the way you have listed everything down Terry, welly rash due to short pants, good old days, and everything listed is TRUE. l Also like the feet and inches bit and..... FROZEN CANALS l.o.l. ;D ;D ;D
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Feb 26, 2010 17:22:04 GMT -1
Post by izzetafox on Feb 26, 2010 17:22:04 GMT -1
Being 55yrs old seemed impossible in those days!!! It's a miracle we have lasted through childhood without the protection of The H&S Act. We should have died a million times.
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Feb 26, 2010 17:29:18 GMT -1
Post by kerny on Feb 26, 2010 17:29:18 GMT -1
Not forgetting the p.c. brigade. ;D
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Feb 26, 2010 17:42:09 GMT -1
Post by SEAJUNKY on Feb 26, 2010 17:42:09 GMT -1
You forgot to mention being allowed out to play in the woods. or go to the park, tree climbing. collecting birds eggs. Camping out in the fields. Eating your sandwiches with dirty hands. We didn't catch anything that would kill you. We where allowed to be real kids. Not like the politicly brought up spoilt little bratts that we seem to be breeding today.
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Feb 26, 2010 20:02:41 GMT -1
Post by izzetafox on Feb 26, 2010 20:02:41 GMT -1
Not many tummy upsets with dirty sarnies and ash in the campfire cooked eggs Hands up who washed their hand after no1's and 2's? Natural vaccines...lol Climbing pylons, banger in cow dung, sucking nectar from sweet nettles, duck and pigeon eggs, mushrooms, blackberrys, itching powder from rose hips, conkers, bows and arrows, dams, riding cows, squawking by blowing on a bit of grass between your thumbs, picking bluebells for mum, how far can you spit, how high up the wall can you pee, bikes made with bits from the tip, playing splits wit a sheath knife, frog spawn and tadpoles, putting your hand in a squirels drey and getting bitten thinking it was a nest, losing your welly in a swamp, trying to make fire by rubbing two sticks, setting light to farts, rope swings ( that snap), carving you initials in a tree, tightrope walking along the top of a fence, swimming wherevetr the water was deep enough, making snares for rabbits that never worked, building dens, making kites that crashed............
How can I remember all this and yet I forget the name of someone I met an hour ago?
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Feb 26, 2010 20:13:29 GMT -1
Post by kerny on Feb 26, 2010 20:13:29 GMT -1
You should write a book Terry. Anecdotes of growing up in the sixties....
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Feb 26, 2010 20:33:08 GMT -1
Post by izzetafox on Feb 26, 2010 20:33:08 GMT -1
It's nice looking back, I just wish my grankids could enjoy the great outdoors the way I did. Was our generation the last to really be free to grow up unfettered? What a sad loss to society. I hate the idea of mud replaced by msn and bird watching by Twitter. What have we turned our kids into? And we call this progress....... Whoops this is a thread about the weather ....sorry Terry!!!!!! But the Summers really were hotter and longer and the snow whiter, deeper and longer lasting.
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Feb 26, 2010 23:35:36 GMT -1
Post by kerny on Feb 26, 2010 23:35:36 GMT -1
I'll agree with that.....
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