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Originally posted by Garage Joe:
This time of year we would go in the fields and rearrange the bails of straw thus building castles, tunnels and mazes.

BTW What time is it Mr Wolf?

DINNERTIME!!! AAAAAAAAAAARRRGGHHH! etc.

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:
This time of year we would go in the fields and rearrange the bails of straw thus building castles, tunnels and mazes.

BTW What time is it Mr Wolf?

DINNERTIME!!! AAAAAAAAAAARRRGGHHH! etc.

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Originally posted by Teddy Bleads:
No mention of white dog poo..tsk.

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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:

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Originally posted by Teddy Bleads:
No mention of white dog poo..tsk.

Yeah... whatever happened to that. I always imagined it had been pooped by a white poodle when I was little!!!

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Originally posted by Blackpudlian:
Googled and found this......


French Elastic or French Skipping

We play this game with a really long piece of elastic, about 2cm wide and 3 metres in length. We tie the ends of the elastic together to make a loop.

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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:
Anyone remember those long tubey things in flouresent colours, that you twirled around your head and they made a really weird sound? Used to make me think of aliens for some reason! I remember they came back about 5 years ago and I bought one of my girls a bright pink one. Still in the cupboard somewhere

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Originally posted by PinkBabe1966:
My favourite

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Originally posted by darloboy07:
Gosh I have it to come, I feel younger reading this thread through .

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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:

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Originally posted by darloboy07:
Gosh I have it to come, I feel younger reading this thread through .

Now dont start darlo!

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Originally posted by darloboy07:

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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:

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Originally posted by darloboy07:
Gosh I have it to come, I feel younger reading this thread through .

Now dont start darlo!

Well obviously stuff from the 90's obviously doesn't fit in with this thread . Make the most of youth .

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Originally posted by darloboy07:
I won't although I could switch the numbers the other way round . You can easily be young at heart .

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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:

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Originally posted by darloboy07:
I won't although I could switch the numbers the other way round . You can easily be young at heart .

mmm that sounds good; thatd make me 34. I could deal with being that age again. I would not make all the same mistakes, second time round Oh, for a time machine

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Originally posted by PinkBabe1966:

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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:

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Originally posted by darloboy07:
I won't although I could switch the numbers the other way round . You can easily be young at heart .

mmm that sounds good; thatd make me 34. I could deal with being that age again. I would not make all the same mistakes, second time round Oh, for a time machine

Snap and sounds good to me!!

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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:

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Originally posted by PinkBabe1966:

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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:

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Originally posted by darloboy07:
I won't although I could switch the numbers the other way round . You can easily be young at heart .

mmm that sounds good; thatd make me 34. I could deal with being that age again. I would not make all the same mistakes, second time round Oh, for a time machine

Snap and sounds good to me!!

Thought you were my age, going by your forum name

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We had packets of thin coloured elastic bands that we painstakingly joined together! Must been dozens of them!

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Originally posted by PinkBabe1966:

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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:

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Originally posted by PinkBabe1966:

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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:

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Originally posted by darloboy07:
I won't although I could switch the numbers the other way round . You can easily be young at heart .

mmm that sounds good; thatd make me 34. I could deal with being that age again. I would not make all the same mistakes, second time round Oh, for a time machine

Snap and sounds good to me!!

Thought you were my age, going by your forum name

Bit of a giveaway really!!

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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:

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Originally posted by PinkBabe1966:

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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:

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Originally posted by PinkBabe1966:

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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:

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Originally posted by darloboy07:
I won't although I could switch the numbers the other way round . You can easily be young at heart .

mmm that sounds good; thatd make me 34. I could deal with being that age again. I would not make all the same mistakes, second time round Oh, for a time machine

Snap and sounds good to me!!

Thought you were my age, going by your forum name

Bit of a giveaway really!!

What month PB?

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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:

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Originally posted by Teddy Bleads:
No mention of white dog poo..tsk.

Yeah... whatever happened to that. I always imagined it had been pooped by a white poodle when I was little!!!

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Originally posted by PinkBabe1966:

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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:

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Originally posted by PinkBabe1966:

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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:

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Originally posted by PinkBabe1966:

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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:

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Originally posted by darloboy07:
I won't although I could switch the numbers the other way round . You can easily be young at heart .

mmm that sounds good; thatd make me 34. I could deal with being that age again. I would not make all the same mistakes, second time round Oh, for a time machine

Snap and sounds good to me!!

Thought you were my age, going by your forum name

Bit of a giveaway really!!

What month PB?

April 12th

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Originally posted by electric6:
We called it elastics or French skips (I posted about it on page 1 or 2)...I guess it had regional names.

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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:

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Originally posted by PinkBabe1966:

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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:

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Originally posted by PinkBabe1966:

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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:

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Originally posted by PinkBabe1966:

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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:

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Originally posted by darloboy07:
I won't although I could switch the numbers the other way round . You can easily be young at heart .

mmm that sounds good; thatd make me 34. I could deal with being that age again. I would not make all the same mistakes, second time round Oh, for a time machine

Snap and sounds good to me!!

Thought you were my age, going by your forum name

Bit of a giveaway really!!

What month PB?

April 12th

ooh, youre 2months and 1 day my senior!

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Originally posted by old hippy guy:
lots of true stuff there,...except, I never drank "cool aid" or rode in the back of a "pick up" I never had a "BB gun" OR tried out for "little league" probably cause I was raised in the UK in the 50s n 60s and NOT the USA,
so I suppose another thing that could be added to the list is that Britain wasnt "Americanised" back then either,
other than that, I agree with the points made in the post,
I am 56 and I am SO glad I was born when I was, I feel sorry for the kids of today, not so much the teenagers, but the younger kids, they miss out on so much that we used to take for granted,
staying out all day with ya pals building a "den" in the woods, and your folks not being worried at all, only going home when when ya belly told ya it was time, didnt get into trouble cause I was more scared of my dad than the police, yip WE was lucky,

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Originally posted by Twee Surgeon:

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Originally posted by old hippy guy:
lots of true stuff there,...except, I never drank "cool aid" or rode in the back of a "pick up" I never had a "BB gun" OR tried out for "little league" probably cause I was raised in the UK in the 50s n 60s and NOT the USA,
so I suppose another thing that could be added to the list is that Britain wasnt "Americanised" back then either,
other than that, I agree with the points made in the post,
I am 56 and I am SO glad I was born when I was, I feel sorry for the kids of today, not so much the teenagers, but the younger kids, they miss out on so much that we used to take for granted,
staying out all day with ya pals building a "den" in the woods, and your folks not being worried at all, only going home when when ya belly told ya it was time, didnt get into trouble cause I was more scared of my dad than the police, yip WE was lucky,

your post made me laugh OHG. You had the same sort of parents as me, and a similar type childhood by the sounds of it. I am round about the same age as you (maybe slightly older). I had a magical childhood, a real childhood, an innocent childhood. We swam in dirty rivers, caught small fish with nets and put them in jamjars, roller skated down steep hills and had the scabby knees as evidence of some mishaps along the way. My holidays were one long 'adventure', getting shoved out in the morning by my mother and told to stay out until I was hungry. She didn't want to see my face for ages lol. There was no sex education in our primary school but I would have instinctively known that if anyone touched me inappropriately that it was wrong. I was afraid of my teachers, I was afraid of my father and mother, and I was very very afraid of the Parish Priest. I was referred to him once for being late for school, he was considered the last resort for misbehaviour. I was brought up in Ireland though, don't forget

The children today do not have a childhood, they have an existence. They know about everything sexual before they should, thereby taking away their innocence. What they don't know how to do is play, to have fun, to have adventures, to be a child, to be carefree. They do not have respect for anyone or anything, they fear nothing. My childhood was spent respecting people, fearing reprisals from adults .. and in that way I learnt how to behave and have some manners. But along the way I enjoyed an enchanted childhood, a magical childhood that no child today will ever enjoy. I feel blessed that I was born in an era when I was allowed to be a child for a very long time.

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Originally posted by cologne1:

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Originally posted by Twee Surgeon:

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Originally posted by old hippy guy:
lots of true stuff there,...except, I never drank "cool aid" or rode in the back of a "pick up" I never had a "BB gun" OR tried out for "little league" probably cause I was raised in the UK in the 50s n 60s and NOT the USA,
so I suppose another thing that could be added to the list is that Britain wasnt "Americanised" back then either,
other than that, I agree with the points made in the post,
I am 56 and I am SO glad I was born when I was, I feel sorry for the kids of today, not so much the teenagers, but the younger kids, they miss out on so much that we used to take for granted,
staying out all day with ya pals building a "den" in the woods, and your folks not being worried at all, only going home when when ya belly told ya it was time, didnt get into trouble cause I was more scared of my dad than the police, yip WE was lucky,

your post made me laugh OHG. You had the same sort of parents as me, and a similar type childhood by the sounds of it. I am round about the same age as you (maybe slightly older). I had a magical childhood, a real childhood, an innocent childhood. We swam in dirty rivers, caught small fish with nets and put them in jamjars, roller skated down steep hills and had the scabby knees as evidence of some mishaps along the way. My holidays were one long 'adventure', getting shoved out in the morning by my mother and told to stay out until I was hungry. She didn't want to see my face for ages lol. There was no sex education in our primary school but I would have instinctively known that if anyone touched me inappropriately that it was wrong. I was afraid of my teachers, I was afraid of my father and mother, and I was very very afraid of the Parish Priest. I was referred to him once for being late for school, he was considered the last resort for misbehaviour. I was brought up in Ireland though, don't forget

The children today do not have a childhood, they have an existence. They know about everything sexual before they should, thereby taking away their innocence. What they don't know how to do is play, to have fun, to have adventures, to be a child, to be carefree. They do not have respect for anyone or anything, they fear nothing. My childhood was spent respecting people, fearing reprisals from adults .. and in that way I learnt how to behave and have some manners. But along the way I enjoyed an enchanted childhood, a magical childhood that no child today will ever enjoy. I feel blessed that I was born in an era when I was allowed to be a child for a very long time.

I completely agree Twee.