School playground at lunchtime:
Me: can i play?
Mick: Dunno. Ask John. Its his game

Ahhh children

Jumping from the top of the hay onto a pile of straw and building rafts from fertiliser pallets and old 5 gallon drums.

Building a den/fortress with duvet covers nd pillows surely should be there :)

and the wooden spoon was your biggest fear!

Don’t run with scissors! …it was possibly the most dangerous thing you could do aged 10….

Using your foot on bicycle back wheel as a brake!!

Will u go up stairs and turn on the water?
Go onnnn, I’ll time ya!
Winner :)

Sliding down the stairs in a pillowcase at top speed!

I forgot about the rain racing down the window :)

Comparing the grips on your runners…
“Tony has shit grips”

No 9: Glue???

I remember the floor being the sea, and the couch and armchair were our ships. So if you touched the floor you had to start swimming or you’d drown :)

“Ip dip dog s**t, you are on it……”

Made some serious childhood decisions from that rhyme

what cleaning isn’t shoving everything under the bed or into the wardrobe? news to me…..
Also, using glues on regular basis, peeling off the second skin is still fun

Blowing the dandelions “He loves me. He loves me not”!

Running and jumping onto your bed so the monster underneath wouldn’t grab your leg :-/

With two different sentences, terror was struck in the hearts of kids ‘wait until your father/mother gets home” and ‘where’s the wooden spoon?’

I think i would have a heart attack if i seen my kid do some of the things i did. Looking back i must of put my parents through hell.

Turning the entire house into a “city” with lego, painted blocks of wood, and matchbox cars. Oh, and putting a bend in lollipop sticks and colouring in the underside at the top in yellow so they looked like street lights :)

I wish I was young again.

I’m having trouble reading the captions. They are truncated and restricted to one line at the top! :)

i miss party bags!!! would always have the sweets my parents wouldnt let me eat (ie the really really artificial ones!!!!)

Damn it journal! You have me thinking about my childhood.
Remember the Tamagotchi? (did you know when they die you can reset them? I never had a clue! Found out the other day and felt like a propper tool!)
Remember Furby?
And a Game of kerbs
Also playing with a Ping pong ball
The day’s you’d come home covered in bruises and scratches and you’d wanna do it all again
And always getting told to be home when the street lights came on.
I actually miss it.

making daisy chains , poking tar bubbles on the road, doing a niknak and running away like the your life depended on it…..!

That doesn’t look like glue.

and Toy Story made you look at your toys and think “I know your alive”

Remember the 10 second rule if you dropped your sweets ;)

Neighbours used to have this tree about 3 times higher then the bungalow i grew up in. I was 7 when i used to climb to the top of it when it was really windy out so i get blown back and forth as it moved in the wind. At the time it was great craic. I loved it.

Nuffsaid I did that all the time!
Funny in a way I never wanted my runners to get ripped but the did apart from the time my mother got me a pair of runners I actually hated I remember putting them on getting my bike out of the shed and cycling fast putting my runner on the back tire so I could skid.. But them runners would just not rip for me

Haha aw we did the suitcase thing to my sister too. It was only once a year. July time. When we were going on holidays!
Playing elastics. Gathering a million elastic bands so u could have the biggest one and all the girls and some boys would play the game at break time!

What do you mean “childhood” rules ?!

The whole family was terrified of the immersion….like a bogey man in the hot press.I still can’t bring myself to turn the bloody thing on.37 years old.Just proves the strangest things form a childhood full of wonderful memories ;) x

I still do the majority of these! Never gonna grow up!

I’m a Tex I’m a Tex I’m a Texan girl
I live way back in the USA
I can ride I can shoot I can do the hula hoop , all the cowboys are after me! Bom Bom Bom !!

Loved all the old playground songs!

Someone sent me this ages ago. Seems appropriate for here: Growing up in Ireland

I’m talking about Hide and Seek in the park, The shop down the road, Hopscotch, Donkey, skipping, handstands, stuck in the mud, football with an old can, Dandy, Beano, Twinkle and Roly Poly, Hula Hoops, Jumping the stream, building a swing from a tyre and a piece of rope tied to a tree, (If you live in Dublin the lampost), building tree-houses, climbing up onto roofs. Tennis on the street, the smell of the sun and fresh cut grass.

Hubba Bubba bubble gum and 2p Flogs, macaroon bars and woppas, 3p Refreshers and wham bars, superhero chewing gum, golf ball chewing gums and liquorice whips, desperate dan and roy of the rovers, sherbit dips and Mr. freezes, marathon bars and everlasting gobstoppers. An ice cream cone on a warm summer night from the van that plays a tune chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or maybe neopolitan

Wait … Watching Saturday Morning cartoons … short commercials, Battle of the Planets, Road Runner, He-Man, Swapshop, and Why Don’t You?, Transformers, How do you do?, Bosco(SANDY), Forty-coats, the Littlest Hobo and Lassie, Chucklevision, The Muppet Show, MacGyver, Scarecrow and Mrs King, Little House on the Prairie and Highway to Heaven, or staying up for Knight Rider and Magnum PI.

When around the corner seemed far away and going into town seemed like going somewhere.

A million midget bites, sticky fingers and mud all over you, knee-pads on your jeans, Cops and Robbers, Rounders, tip the Can, Queenie-I-O, climbing trees, spin the bottle, building igloos out of snow banks, walking to school, no matter what the weather, running till you were out of breath. Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt, Jumping on the bed. Pillow fights, Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles, Being tired from playing… Remember that?

The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.

Water balloons were the ultimate weapon

Football cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle.

And don’t forget the Marietta sandwiches we’d make by buttering a cupla Marietta biscuits and stickin’ them together. And that quare oul mixture made in a tall glass with HB ice cream and Taylor Keith Red Lemonade.

I’m not finished just yet…

Eating raw jelly, orange squash ice pops

Remember when … There were two types of sneakers – girls and boys and Dunlop Green Flash and the only time you wore them at school, was for “P.E.”, Gola football boots.

It wasn’t odd to have two or three “best” friends, when nobody owned a pure bred dog, when 25p was decent pocket money, when you’d reach i nto a muddy gutter for a penny, when nearly everyone’s mum was at home when the kids got there, when it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents

When any parent could discipline any kid or use him to carry groceries and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.

When being sent to the head’s office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving student at home. Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn’t because of muggings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! and some of us are still afraid of them!!!

Remember when….

Decisions were made by going “eeny-meeny-miney-mo.” Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, “do over!”

“Race issue” meant arguing about who ran the fastest. Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in “Monopoly”, the game of life and connect four, atari 2600’s and commadore 64′s. The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was germs. It was unbelievable that Red rover wasn’t an Olympic event…

Having a weapon in school, meant being caught with a biro barrel pea shooter or an elastic band. Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better, Taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable vitamins, Ice cream was considered a basic food group.

Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true.. Abilities were discovered because of a “double dare” Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest protectors

If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED!!!! Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their “grown up” life…

I DOUBLE DARE YA!!! Bagsy it, no returns and no magical changes

Vanessa where can you buy them?

All of the above get a mention in a little book called The ’80s Kid. Think there are a few left in shops around the place. I heard it’s quite the book to leave in your jax!

Still stand by the cleaning 1, under the best, best pla e 4 it… Til I have to go look 4 it !!!

Collecting wrestling cards and swapping them in school. ” have it have it have it have it have it have it have it have it…..I’ll swap two hulk hogans for your randy savage”

All of the above get a mention in a little book called The ’80s Kid. Think that there are a few left in shops around the place after Xmas. I heard it’s the perfect book to leave in your jax ;)

Cleaning still has the same meaning thankfully.

Remember the 10 second rule when you dropped your sweets? :)

What a sad childhood if those are the memories?