[Misc] Things you did as kid that don’t seem popular any more

[Eeyore]

Actually think it was natwest by then

Became Nat West in 1981. The famous last ball final

Worth a cup of coffee and a half hour watch

 

[POSKETT AT THE VALLEY]

Sussex 300 hundred odd and bankers. Then came Asif Din. What a final.

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

 

[marlowe]

Wrestle fights

 

[marlowe]

Playing Cowboys and Indians

 

[Comrade Sam]

sniffing glue & inhaling gas
making camps in the woods
my personal favourite was getting a stick and crush down the stems making trails through the farmers wheat or Barley field, then getting chased by the farmer obviously, stupid really because.

One night the babysitter arrived with her boyfriend the farmers eldest son who patrolled the field and occasionally did the mowing or whatever, there was an awkward silence and he actually said nothing in front of my parents, but explained he was a kid once, but it costs his dad a fortune. I never did it again, but still miss it.

That's how I made a crop circle. I recall with several regular posters on here.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Kiss chase. I remember being both shy and stupid - I was the fastest runner by a distance so the girls could never catch me and I thought I had won! - when it was my turn to catch I used to get the girls and hold them for another boy to catch up.

I think girls terrified me until I was about 16

61 in my case.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Frey Bentos steak and kidney pies (Saturday lunch)
A lovely mug of Camp coffee (virtually coffee free. WTF is chicory?)
Wall's sausages
Gold top milk (cheese by teatime)
Hedge porn (I know this has been mentioned, but WTF?)
Slinky
Shoot magazine
Health and Efficiency

I may have damaged Thread Integrity, but so what?

Not following instructions
Playing out till dark
Always having dog shit on my shoes.
The lovely smell of creosote
Having nice clean clothes every Monday
Always having a bath Sunday evening, with Tony Prince, the royal ruler on lucky Luxembourg
No deodorant

 

[The Clamp]

Parents smoking cigarettes in the car. Even back then it was grim.

 

[TheDuke]

Putting a book on a single roller skate, sitting down on it and hurtling down Bristol Gate hoping to stop before reaching Eastern Road

 

[Mo Gosfield]

Making darts out of matchsticks and pins and firing them out of empty biro tubes. Location...top deck of bus. Targets...telegraph poles...pub signs...anything wooden. It was an art to judge the slipstream of the bus. Remember a man standing at a bus stop with an umbrella. Cue 20-30 darts in the top of his brolly.

 

[Titanic]

Junior membership of SCCC.

Happy days in the cowshed with a sandwich, a frozen Beejam yoghurt, and a bat and ball for lunch & tea intervals.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Putting a book on a single roller skate, sitting down on it and hurtling down Bristol Gate hoping to stop before reaching Eastern Road

Handy for A&E if you crashed

 

[Dave the OAP]

Marbles. At school in South Africa we used to all sit in a row on the floor, in the dusty road outside school. in front of us we built a pyramid of marbles ( the bigger the marble the harder it fell) and kids would come along and flick their marbles at it to try and knock it down!

You kept the marbles that didn’t knock it down

The big buggers we’re like gold dust to get but made you loads of little ones

Tell that to t’kids today, they wouldn’t bloody believe you

 

[POSKETT AT THE VALLEY]

Frey Bentos steak and kidney pies (Saturday lunch)
A lovely mug of Camp coffee (virtually coffee free. WTF is chicory?)
Wall's sausages
Gold top milk (cheese by teatime)
Hedge porn (I know this has been mentioned, but WTF?)
Slinky
Shoot magazine
Health and Efficiency

I may have damaged Thread Integrity, but so what?

Not following instructions
Playing out till dark
Always having dog shit on my shoes.
The lovely smell of creosote
Having nice clean clothes every Monday
Always having a bath Sunday evening, with Tony Prince, the royal ruler on lucky Luxembourg
No deodorant

That made me chuckle. One lad used to bring a health efficiency into school every now and then. We’d rip out the pages and on a breezy day the pages would stick to the mesh perimeter fence. Teachers had to go and pull the pages down.

 

[Blue3]

Playing in the coal bunker and licking coal as it tasted nice I am sure it was akin to really wanting some dark greens to eat you know that need for Iron I was telling the grandchildren about it only last week and they genuinely thought I was making it up

 

[hans kraay fan club]

In Newtown Road, South of the Goldstone (but on the same side of the road) there was a company that distributed magazines to newsagents, etc - and also processed the bundles of unsold ones.

They had a huge industrial skip in their car park full of brand new, unsold publications. They'd get tossed in there in bundles, including any free gift or similar attached to them. So you could find a bundle of 50 copies of Good Housekeeping, each with a free cereal bar attached, or 50 copies of Shoot! each with a pack of panini stickers inside, or 50 copies of the Beano, each with a polystyrene aeroplane...

We'd risk getting PULPED to death, by climbing in there on a weekly basis to forage for the free gifts. Unsold copies of Health and Efficiency were an occasional thrilling bonus!

 

[Blue3]

Not central heating only a coal fire in the front room windows single glazed metal frames would be soaked then freeze over night and you touched the nets they would snap I remember a number of times being told off for that, bedtime was freezing no quilts just sheets and blankets and being tucked in so tight you couldn’t move I can just remember we had a copper bed warmer filled with hot ash from the fire that was put in the bed for a few minutes before you got in if I remember correctly it was at my nans and we only used a couple of when I stayed

 

[METALMICKY]

Marbles. At school in South Africa we used to all sit in a row on the floor, in the dusty road outside school. in front of us we built a pyramid of marbles ( the bigger the marble the harder it fell) and kids would come along and flick their marbles at it to try and knock it down!

You kept the marbles that didn’t knock it down

The big buggers we’re like gold dust to get but made you loads of little ones

Tell that to t’kids today, they wouldn’t bloody believe you

Alongside the marbles don't forget the ball bearings. When I think about it was bloody dangerous as the usual source was breaking open aerosol cans which back thence all seemed to have them inside.

 

[raymondo]

Not central heating only a coal fire in the front room windows single glazed metal frames would be soaked then freeze over night and you touched the nets they would snap I remember a number of times being told off for that, bedtime was freezing no quilts just sheets and blankets and being tucked in so tight you couldn’t move I can just remember we had a copper bed warmer filled with hot ash from the fire that was put in the bed for a few minutes before you got in if I remember correctly it was at my nans and we only used a couple of when I stayed

Yep, same here. Copper bedwarmer but soon replaced with stone hot water 'bottles'.
As well as the coal fire in the lounge, we had a coke boiler in the dining room (posh council house ) which had a back boiler to heat our water.
For the very cold days we had two stinky paraffin heaters, one in the hall and one on the landing.
Hence...smell and moisture everywhere.