What we did when we were kids....

r00fie1

r00fie1

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We`de play football in the street using the old womans wall as the goal and always ask for the ball back when it went into her yard.
She always moaned but we were nice to her - until her back was turned!
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Lads [its never girls] did wheelies on bikes and bunny hops up and down the kerb.
Reminds me of what we did so innocently as kids, especially during the long summer holidays, which never seemed to end.
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Drifting off for miles untill Mam found us and gave us a thick ear.
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Thinking of when we used to go scrumping and playing "rat-tat-ginger" down the neighbouring streets, hoping the nasty old fella at no. 42 would come out, so we could shout rude words at him and try to get him to chase us down the street.

Nicking pop and beer bottles out the back of the pub yard and taking them round to the "offie" to get a tanner back on each bottle.
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Mam taking us lads to the barbers and telling the barber "they`ll all have short back and sides"!
Long gone:
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Trug said:
No Roofie, they haven't long gone. They will always be with us. Just like our first love or our first match . Simpler, carefree happy times indeed.
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Good point.
Its very sad that the days of that street with a motor-bike-and-sidecar, a Ford Pop and loads of empty space has now gone. Unfortunately those streets have become a car-park and most cars are wider then the terraced houses.

Where I live there is one particular street, which has unintentionally become a low traffic neighbourhood - the council stuck five concrete bollards at one end, to stop wagons using it as a rat run. [The kids found some tires which now sit atop the bollards and the kids have turned it into a play area.

Now the kids play cricket across the street, play on their mini-scooters and bikes. Its great to see. Its also great to see neighbours rushing out when the ice cream van turns the corner with his music.

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It is also great to see neighbours rushing out when the ice cream van turns the corner with his music.

On my street there are no young kids so the ice cream man doesn't come round any more. Actually there are a few young ones but they don't play outside any more. I think it is a combination of computer games and parents protection. Such a shame.
 
Trug said:
It is also great to see neighbours rushing out when the ice cream van turns the corner with his music.

On my street there are no young kids so the ice cream man doesn't come round any more. Actually there are a few young ones but they don't play outside any more. I think it is a combination of computer games and parents protection. Such a shame.
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I`ve actually got £3 by the front door so I can grab a double large cone with rasberry sauce, two flakes and a sprinkling of 100s and 1000s 🍦
 
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Making arrows with a bit of bamboo, two playing cards and a piece of string to launch them with.

1. The bamboo was cut on one end to accept the two playing cards to act as flights.

2. The other end was sharpened to stick in the target.

3. A notch was cut two-thirds of the way up to attach the string.

4. A knot tied at the end of the string, placed over the notch and the string looped over it and pulled tight towards the tip.

5. Run like crazy and launch the arrow in the air.

How we never killed anyone doing this I will never know.
 
Do you know what kids do now ... sit on tablets all day watching absolute drivel boils my pi$$ but apparently thats the norm these days. Im just mammys boyfriend so i dont get a say on the matter
 
Davey_C said:
Do you know what kids do now ... sit on tablets all day watching absolute drivel boils my pi$$ but apparently thats the norm these days. Im just mammys boyfriend so i dont get a say on the matter
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Not just kids sat on their tablets all day, the whole country is full of fookin zombies
 
Played football and Subbuteo with the bloke who I watched the match with tonight, 50 years on.

Cricket and rounders over the field when the council bloke dropped the equipment off....how civilised were we back then?

Hide and seek, tig, kerby and moved on to garden creeping, the youth club and the ice rink.
 
1. Found your mates when your found the bikes all parked up
2. Climbing trees
3. Only going home for food and drink
4. Stay out till the street lights came on
5. Building Dens
6. Trying to make a fire
7. Knocky Door Run
8. Kerby
9. Street versus Street Football
10. Conkers
11. Yo-Yo's
12. Spud Guns
 
My childhood was spent in a secluded brilliant street with trees and huge back gardens
Our Itinerary was
1. Bikes...everywhere..miles of biking with no helmets and no cares.
2. Building dens in the ground in our mates garden...
3. In that den having gang meetings and Trying to make home brew
4 trying a fag for the first time
5 building ingenious bird traps
6 playing down the beach on the scars
Catching all sorts
7 jumping through people's gardens.
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Footie off the wall for days on end...poor people
9. Drinking soda stream for the first time

Happiest of childhoods...my kids don't get that now.....apart from indoor dens when on holiday.... love that....in my element.. they love it too
 
Making a tarzie and then playing pick and stick with a pen knife. Some great times. Swing as far up the bank stick the knife, next person has to try and get it. Or swing high to branch grab it, stick the knife as far along it as possible.
 
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