Remember the old snake belt's and just about every kid had a gat.(caterpult) And the sunday nite bath..ah
And your mam telling you to put clean kecks on in case you get run over, . Oh the shame of the doctors seeing your skiddies, lol.
Pop vans Getting a bath in the tin bath in front of the fire on a Sundat night. The bath was filled from the Ascot water heater a jug at a time! By the way I get 14 and I am only 54!
i remember en all and i am ancient but still feel pretty good for all that and can still manage to get the legover pretty regular, life has been very good to me,
I'm glad that somebody else remembers pluffers . Another great source of enjoyment was the bogie made out of an old pram , how on earth somebody wasn't seriously hurt i'll never know, but we've all survived.
kick the tin, knocky nine doors, hop scoth,collecting owt that would burn six week's before bonefire nite and asking mam and dad if you could keep it behind the shed or garage until 5 november.
had a discussion recently with some 30 somethings-couldnt believe we made our own bogies or even what a bogie was How daft were we running down the street with a metal hoop guided by a stick????
I had a black widow, it was the bees knees, my best mates dad used to work at Hendersons factory and used to get us thousands of metal ball bearings to use as target practice up the wood.
Forgot that one, although our joint of meat was not quite large, but planty of yorkies and gravy, for us bairns.
Only six weeks ago, I bought a new widdow, as the elastic perished on the old one, after twenty years, still have great fun with it. not realy saying this." But if you are a cat, and you want to destroy the robbins, collared doves, wood pidgeons, sparrows wrens and other birds in my garden",,,,, BEWARE. But then again I didnt say that.
