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Maggers
Maggers

Another thought following on from favourite films. How about what happy memories do you have of childhood. Could be a place, activity, toy, friend, you decide.  Personally I loved the hours spent rollerskating - for those oldies like me the skates were the old fashioned metal ones that we adjusted with a spanner and had leather straps - those were the days!

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  • g30rg313
    g30rg313 Maggers

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    I guess my happiest memories were playing with my brother and sisters. We would get industrial strength plastic bags and slide down what we called the sinners. Which was a high gravel bank at the side of the railway line. I think the name sinners was derived from cinders which is what was originally banking the railways (coal) we would go collecting tadpoles at a nearby beck. We would climb trees. We would build huge nests out of grass cuttings and pretend to be birds. We would collect rose petals and boil them in water to make our own "perfume" lol. We often wrote scripts for our own plays and perform them for our neighbours, with home made refreshments for the interval. I have some good memories from my childhood smile
    • Maggers
      Maggers g30rg313

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      Yep with you on the rose petal perfume and tadpoles. Gosh transporting me back a good few years.
  • christine26761
    christine26761 Maggers

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    It's gotta be our camping holidays...awesome.....loved everything about it..went to unreal places in Australia...especially the Blue Mountains and the many  beach areas...and the different states..we would go every long weekend and 6 weeks a year on our annual holidays...beautiful memories....hate it now, I wouldn't camp for all the tea in a china...literally..wpWhen I married, that was all replaced with nice motels and hotels .....my children stay in 5 star luxury...well so do we now. and why not....gotta start my older age memories...:-) xxx
    • Maggers
      Maggers christine26761

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      Loved camping but got very upset when everyone laughed at me when I was about 9 years old as I tried to cook a sausage over the open fire, forgetting that the sausage was on a plastic fork!
  • shirl21730
    shirl21730 Maggers

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    I have happy childhood memories where I lived there was a field and trees in front of our house we played outside everyday we could... Cannon kerbie roller skating skipping rounders cricket climbing trees and swinging on a rope on a tree..it was brilliant playing on so many games!!  life before computers and mobile phones lol !!
    • Maggers
      Maggers shirl21730

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      Today's kids haven't a clue what they are missing.  I doubt whether many would have the imagination to entertain themselves all day as we did in the glorious outdoors.   We didn't need expensive toys and gadgets did we!
    • shirl21730
      shirl21730 Maggers

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      That's so right!  also i could go to the park on a weekend with my older brother without feeling afraid of being approached by strangers!
    • Maggers
      Maggers shirl21730

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      Spent the holidays out on bikes with sandwiches in paper bags and a bottle of pop.

      Just wondering - do you think there are more suspect strangers around these days or are parents way too protective.  I know kids are not allowed to learn by risk taking - we never had full body armour to ride a scooter. I know there was little in  the way of traffic but even so we played out and  came home at teatime dirty, hungry and tired with the odd bump and bruise but that was about it. So many kids these days are taken everywhere by car, haven't a clue how to cross the road and have all activities planned and supervised. Think we were the lucky generation!

    • shirl21730
      shirl21730 Maggers

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      It's a sad thing to say but if my kids were young now I think I would be even more protective and wary of people...there was an experiment shown on TV recently where a man in his twenties with a small dog asked the parents permission to see if their young children would be tempted to go off with him even though they had been warned about talking to strangers a majority of them walked off with him.. I was so shocked by this!!
    • Maggers
      Maggers shirl21730

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      Do you think this may have been because children nowadays are not street wise. I certainly would never have gone with anyone.  Stranger danger is probably not foremost in some parents' mind as they never leave their children unsupervised. Although parents may tell them once it needs reinforcing. I remember in a carpark my father was talking to the man parked next to us. My son aged 4 said "Grandad do you know that man" grandad said "no" the response from my son was "well you shouldn't be talking to him then should you"  Out of the mouth of babes!I think perhaps because of social media etc we are more aware of when a child is missing or has been approached by someone.  I would like to think the world is still a fairly safe place for our young people.
  • Bee70
    Bee70 Maggers

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    My happy memeories of my childhood were travelling to London from Wolverhampton every holiday and spending with my cousins.  We used to spend time with one cousin for a week then move onto the next cousin and so on.  Family get togethers used to be so much fun.  Nowadays famiies are too busy for one another. They were the good old days when there was no worry of having fun. wink x
    • Maggers
      Maggers Bee70

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      Simple pleasures. Families just don't seem to matter any more.  We had terrific family get togethers every Sunday in the summer. We would meet at the local park and play cricket and rounders then all collapse in a heap and have a picnic. Then it was home for a bath and then drop into a nice cosy bed absolutely worn out. Happy days
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