What are YOUR lovely childhood memories?

[Gojira]

I loved spending time with my grandparents.

I remember loving:

hours spent on the swing in the back garden
making perfume (rose petals in water -actually probably smelt awful!)
the beano
my gran baking fairy cakes -just for me :grin:
Murder in the dark -wink murder
Brownies

[Lu Lu]

I used to love spending time with my Grandma.

We used to do the rose petal thing too!
Making toffee
Playing with dried peas
Her top loading washing machine!
Strange magnetic Tom and Jerry game
Baking in general
Telling the bird off
Her collection of trolls

Happy, happy days x

[Helski]

Murder in the Dark - wow! Blast from the past :lol:

My older brothers throwing me about.
Dad reading me Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl stories at bedtime
Making up dance routines (I had a particularly moving one to 'Through The Barricades' I remember :oops: )
My Dad marmalising me
Being an absolute clown and a joker and having older brothers and sisters that hung on my every loopy word!! :lurve:

[Piggly]

My over-riding childhood memory is holidays spent at my grandmas chalet right by the beach in anglesey and playing with the same friends year after year as people used to spend all summer there. We are so lucky that my mum owns it still and apart from some minor changes like electricity and running water it is still the same and ds 1 & 2 have loved their time there. I hope that it is still the same when they have children of their own.

[Gojira]

Murder in the Dark - wow! Blast from the past :lol:

My older brothers throwing me about.
Dad reading me Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl stories at bedtime
Making up dance routines (I had a particularly moving one to 'Through The Barricades' I remember :oops: )
My Dad marmalising me
Being an absolute clown and a joker and having older brothers and sisters that hung on my every loopy word!! :lurve:

I'm having a ball reading Enid Blyton to mine every night & Roald Dahl. Currently on the Faraway Tree with them but (shhhh don't tell anyone), I'm reading Malory Towers in my own bed on my own. Love them.

What is marmalising??

[Rosa]

:lol: I'm reading faraway tree to DS just now, not sure he would appreciate Mallory Towers so might have to accidentally get it for myself :lol: Though I was more of a St Clare's girl. Ooh he would love Famous Five and Secret Seven though.

I don't know what marmalising is either, sounds serious!

[Helski]

Currently on the Faraway Tree with them but (shhhh don't tell anyone),

Why? I've just finished Magic Faraway Tree and we're now reading The Enchanted Wood. :scratchchin: Is this because Enid Blyton was a nazi or something? There's nothing in the books that is potically incorrect (or maybe I missed it?) It's not like Noddy or Amelia Jane.

Red - marmalising is tickling with bells on! Think it;s a Ken Dodd word :scratchchin:

[Rosa]

I think Gojira just meant SHH cause she was reading kids books on her own in bed :teehee:

[Gojira]

Why? I've just finished Magic Faraway Tree and we're now reading The Enchanted Wood. :scratchchin: Is this because Enid Blyton was a nazi or something? There's nothing in the books that is potically incorrect (or maybe I missed it?) It's not like Noddy or Amelia Jane.

Nope sorry I must have written my post wrong.Nothing wrong with Enid Blyton!!

But also, I'M READING Malory Towers (a book really for 10 years old plus!!), at night in my own bed. Mr G does the crossword on his own and I'm reading Malory Towers!! :teehee: it's my guilty pleasure at the moment!!

[Gojira]

I think Gojira just meant SHH cause she was reading kids books on her own in bed :teehee:

Yep ^^^ One shouldn't be 40 (ish!!) and reading Malory Towers -although now I'm tempted to get St Clare's when I have finished, or Judy Bulme or Nancy Drew.......good grief I feel an Amazon Wish List forming............ :teehee:

[Lu Lu]

Nancy Drew

I am so desperate to read all the Nancy Drew books again!

[Helski]

Oh I see! :doh: Read yor post wrong. I remember there being some hoo haa about Enid Blyton a while back.

Anyhoooooooo, I think a book for 10 yr olds would be all my attention span could cope with these days :lol:

Oh and OMG, I need to read 'Forever' and 'Are you there God, it's me Margaret' again -oh mispent youth

[Roseyposey]

making mud pies
getting 10p mix ups
eating crisps with salad cream
the charts on a sunday teatime
pacers
the donkey at clovelly
tv - nancy drew, monkey
holidays with my parents
eating sugar cubes at my nans house
cornwall

all making me very sad now as my mum is starting to fade, and the memories with her

[all that glitters!]

Going for a family drive to nowhere in particular on a Sunday afternoon after a roast dinner, 7 of us squeezed into a mini!

My nan's scones on a Sunday when my cousin's came out from the town to visit us in the village.

Tomato and onion sandwiches (doorstop jagged cut bread!) at my other nan's for Sunday tea.

Kiss chase with the boys! ;)

[thirzasmum]

Mainly holidays in Wales in the caravan including agonising sunburn despot factor 10 cream lol!

One sprang to mind at the weekend though- my dad horrified a friend on a picnic ( proper picnic - table and chairs and all) when we were packing up dad passed around what he announced was " the soup bone bag" for a the chicken drumstick remains and she totally believed him and was horrified!!

Oh and Pa's rhubarb picked and eaten in the garden with a bit of sugar in the corner of a paper bag- tart or what!

[Adelelee]

Oh too many to mention!!!!!

Just a few are:

Spending long lazy days at the beach with my mum and friends in the summer hols, coming home, packing a picnic and then going back down there when we picked Dad up.

Hours and hours and hours spent with my cousins, playing, days out, holidays etc etc

Staying with my Nin and Grandad and being spoilt rotten!

Going out all day on my bike with friends

My mum playing word games with me (how geeky is that:oops::lol:)

Dad being away with work and me waiting for an age at the window for him to come home (I am a real daddys girl:grin:)

I could go on and on, I had a lovely childhood and pray I am making some lovely memories for my girls!

[Helski]

Oh too many to mention!!!!!

Just a few are:

Spending long lazy days at the beach with my mum and friends in the summer hols, coming home, packing a picnic and then going back down there when we picked Dad up.

Hours and hours and hours spent with my cousins, playing, days out, holidays etc etc

Staying with my Nin and Grandad and being spoilt rotten!

Going out all day on my bike with friends

My mum playing word games with me (how geeky is that:oops::lol:)

Dad being away with work and me waiting for an age at the window for him to come home (I am a real daddys girl:grin:)

I could go on and on, I had a lovely childhood and pray I am making some lovely memories for my girls!

:lurve: what a lovely post.

I had a fab childhood too :lurve: I used to think it was normal but have recently realised that it was really special :lurve: I luffs my mammy and daddy & big bruvs and sis :lurve:

[Sadie]

Being with my nan who I adored, she lived next door to us and when my grandad passed away I slept there every single night for around 8 years or so. Even though other people lived there she didn't like to sleep on her own, so just me and her in the huge king sized bed, miss her dearly and love her tremendously, we had an amazing bond.

5p tip tops.

Making treehouses and dens with friends.

Bike rides in woodlands and swinging on the Tarzan rope swings.

Writing stories and reading lots of books, Roald Dahl being a favourite.

Singing and making up dance routines with my friend and her brothers, we were so gonna be a famous popstars ;) hehe.

[Petrus]

My grandad telling us stories about mermaids and shipwrecks when he was in the navy. His polos. He always used to have polos on him.

[L66TTY]

Hmm horse riding and trampolining were my fave past times!

Cycling round the villages where I still live now getting the gang together and "hanging out" I still hang out with them now just down the pub.

The most amazing holidays, sailing, living in foreign countries and doing stuff like dancing in the hot rain and drinking from coconuts on the beach. Father Christmas arriving in millions of different ways, helicopter, fire engine, speed boat random!!!

Mischief night at boarding school OMG that was amazing fun cling film over the loos, vaseline down bannisters all sorts.

[Danna]

Fights on the bed. My dad would get us all on there, under the quilt then we would all play fight until one of us inevitably hurt themselves and cried.

Recording the top 40 off the radio making my sisters be dead quiet because the tape would pick it up if they talked

Being the teacher when we got home from school and setting my sisters their work for the day

Making up dances to NKOTB and Bros

Saturday kids club at the cinema - 50p and included a film, popcorn and a drink

Friday market day - we would take it in turns for my mum to buy each of us an outfit off the market (so every 5 weeks for us). I remember getting my waxed jacket and being the talk of the school!!!

The ice cream man - my mum had an "account" so wherever we were, we could ask him for an icecream "on the book please". She had a £40 bill once and the accont was swiftly taken away!

Cinema night. We'd turn all the lights off, move the sofa into the middle of the room and watch a film all together on a Saturday.

[Gojira]

Mischief night at boarding school OMG that was amazing fun cling film over the loos, vaseline down bannisters all sorts.

Sounds like Malory Towers, I'm envious!

[Elvisola]

We did the making perfume out of rose petal thing too
Finding chalk to play hopscotch
Roaming all over the farmers fields and making camps
Having a quick scrub down in the kitchen sink
Putting on mums heels and pushing our prams round our cul de sac
Hiding behind the sofa when the rent man came
Licking the cake mix bowl
Long sunny afternoons by the river with a dinghy and a warm squashed picnic
Xmas with the men down the pub and the women in the kitchen
Playing schools with my dollies
Making my brothers do dance routines to Madonnas and Five Star
Enid Blyton

[Dr Spouse]

Loads of books I loved reading (I'm revisiting them with my nieces/the Brownies) - have been meaning to get hold of some of the series e.g. The Dark is Rising
Going to my grandparents in the US, going to the beach, odd foods I liked there (their cottage cheese was nicer!)
Brownies (I'm annoyed it took me 30 years to go back as a leader!)
Making cakes and cookies
Playing/sleeping over with our cousins and my godmother's two girls
Playing out in the vacant area behind our house, making dens
Making up plays and putting them on
Playing with my dolls and making them clothes, and making up "cakes" for them (e.g. ginger biscuit sandwiches = ginger cake).

[Raspberry beret]

Another Enid Blyton fan here :nod:

Going down the park and Mum pushing us really high on the swings, I don't know how she managed to do it, she is only 5'1" but the best swing pusher ever :lol:

Taking a can of cold beer down the farm for my Dad in the evenings during harvest and him crushing it to nothing under his feet when it was empty, we thought he was soooo strong.

Going to the Oasis swimming pool in Swindon - loved the tubes and the waves.

Games with my cousins and brother - donkey or cheat (with cards), treasure hunts, sardines and making dens in the bales (probably highly dangerous :brainache:).

Microwaved beef burgers :zombie: and chicken soup for Saturday lunch.

Roller skating :grin:

Eating boiled eggs then turning the shell upside down so it looked like a fresh egg and giving it to Dad, saying "look Dad, I made a boiled egg for you...", he would always make a bit pretence of saying thank you and how it was JUST what he needed then break into it with his spoon and go "AAAAHHH, you GOT me this time, pesky kids!!!". I think if I ate a boiled egg with him now, I'd still have to do it :lol::oops:

Eating Sunday lunch really quickly at my grandparents so you could be the first one to say "ALL GONE!" :loco:.

['Line]

I can remember sitting in my Dad's wardrobe and smelling his clothes :nod: He was away in the Royal Navy an awful lot when I was little and I used to miss him madly :cry:When it all got too much for me I used to go and sit in the wardrobe.
The memory has never left me and even now I can't resist smelling clothes when I open wardrobes :nod:

[pinkelephantonacid]

Playing on the beach in Bude
walking for miles over the clifftops with my grandad
Nanna teaching me how to make cakes
playing in the woods, making dens with my freinds
Making toast over an open fire for Sunday tea

[pinkelephantonacid]

Should add... I am another Enid Blyton fan. My mum had all the famous five books (first editions too!) and when she died she left them to me. They are upstairs on the bookshelf, but are obv too precious to read. I bought some paperbacks I found in a charity shop for my girls to read though.

[Abbie]

Most things involving my Grandad. I loved him to death but he died when I was 13.

He took me and my brother caravanning every year and I always remember the good old fashioned holidays we had, playing cricket in the evenings with him and my Nan and this funny little thing he did with his fingers - he'd rub his fingers together and say "oxo" instead of goodnight

He used to carry a gas bottle in the boot of his Wolsey and he'd park up anywhere and brew up a cup of tea on his gas bottle.

He taught me to ride my bike, he used to let me loose with nails and random bits of wood to build things and he had this enormous greenhouse full of beautiful flowers that I used to "help" him look after. He used to take us fishing for tiddlers with bits of string tied to sticks

Making jam tarts with my Grandma and going blackberry picking

[Roseyposey]

and grasshouses - did anyone else make grasshouses? Loved it. We were so posh we use to add conservatories onto ours ; - )

[gemz_scottie]

god i LOVED my childhood...quite funny as had a scream on FB last night with my mum, sister and my oldest friends ... all the memories came flooding back!

spending time with my grandparents.. my cousins would stay there with us most weekends and my gran is the greatest story teller.... she is and still is a wonderful woman...altho granda is a grumpy old sod!
my dad coming home from work on a friday night before i was 10 him being drunk and us dancing to Reeepateet by Jackie Wilson and loads of others toons from back then.
going to see Madonna in concert when i was 8 years old with my parents and my best friend...
these are some funny moments...i remember my sister breaking her collor bone and she was plastered from her neck to waist (shame) and i was in a huff in a restaraunt cos she was getting all the attention...so i decided to put pepper in my eye to see how it would feel...FREEK much!! lol
i had to get a finger sewn back on when i was around 6... i was being the child from hell and can remember us being in MFI getting a bamboo unit lol... we were in the car park and my mum was screaming at me to get in the car... next my dad was shouting 'her hands in the boot'... id jammed it!! numpty...not funny at the time but we still giggle about it....