All the good things I can remember as a kid

[Harnser]

I remember most of them, also mum cutting my hair at home, rubicks magic and cube, getting teased for wearing gola trainers (before they became retro and trendy)

also watching the wonder years on a sunday and being sent to bed after staying up to watch dallas or dynasty.

 

 

Gola trainers , I had black gusset plimsoles and thought they were the fabulous . Harnser .

[staglioni]

black pumps from army stores half crown and they lasted years

stag

[Jim Sarakun]

LEVIS YOU LAID IN THE BATH WITH.

 

MARATHONS AND MARS BARS THE STAPLE DIET.

 

TOLLY COBBLED BEER.

 

10 no.6 or 10 no.10 IF YOU WERE SKINT.

 

HALF A CROWN BOUGHT A PINT, 10 no.6 AND A PACKET OF CRISPS.

 

FIVE BOB FOR A GALLON OF PETROL FOR THE GRIEVES POST OFFICE BIKE YOU BORROWED FROM THE POSTMAN TO RIDE ACROSS THE FIELD.

 

A VILLAGE POLICEMAN.

 

A LOCAL BUTCHER.

 

FAMILY PICNICS.

 

SWIMMING IN THE RIVER.

 

MOTOWN.

 

GAT GUNS.

 

HIDE AND SEEK IN FIELDS OF KALE.

 

THAT FIRST FUMBLING KISS.

[staglioni]

You got it Jim

stag

[plinker]

turning your drop handlebars on your racer upside down and 10 number 6 from outside fag machines, taking a ferret to school hidden in your coat.

the only footwear was the mighty DM,s

[staglioni]

Yeh cherry red D,M's levi stay press ben sherman shirt and a harrington and crombie

stag

[monkeyjaimz]

Gola trainers , I had black gusset plimsoles and thought they were the fabulous . Harnser .

 

I had a pair of those for PE at school, also remember being made to do PE at school in my underpants and vest when I forgot my PE kit

[staglioni]

P,E kit we never had em vest under pants and pumps girls did it in navy blue knickers vest and pumps

stag

[tosspot]

Getting yer dear ole mam to drop you off round the corner from the disco

 

Turning yer Parka inside out so it was bright orange.

 

tying yer Parka by one stud round your neck, running around like you had a cape on.

 

Giving your best mate an unsuspecting dead leg.

 

Asking you mum for more dinner money when 10 JPS went up.

 

Thinking you dad was indestructable.

 

Winding your Evil Knieval stunt bike up full speed and rubbing the wheel against your brothers' head.

 

Leaving yourself exactly 30 seconds to get home on time from half a mile away.

 

Playing a 45 at 16

 

Showing off that digital watch

[monkeyjaimz]

 

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:

Aye, very passable, that, very passable bit of risotto.

SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:

Nothing like a good glass of Château de Chasselas, eh, Josiah?

THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:

You're right there, Obadiah.

FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:

Who'd have thought thirty year ago we'd all be sittin' here drinking Château de Chasselas, eh?

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:

In them days we was glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.

SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:

A cup o' cold tea.

FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:

Without milk or sugar.

THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:

Or tea.

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:

In a cracked cup, an' all.

FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:

Oh, we never had a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.

SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:

The best we could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.

THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:

But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:

Because we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, "Money doesn't buy you happiness, son".

FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:

Aye, 'e was right.

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:

Aye, 'e was.

FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:

I was happier then and I had nothin'. We used to live in this tiny old house with great big holes in the roof.

SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:

House! You were lucky to live in a house! We used to live in one room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture, 'alf the floor was missing, and we were all 'uddled together in one corner for fear of falling.

THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:

Eh, you were lucky to have a room! We used to have to live in t' corridor!

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:

Oh, we used to dream of livin' in a corridor! Would ha' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House? Huh.

FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:

Well, when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it was a house to us.

SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:

We were evicted from our 'ole in the ground; we 'ad to go and live in a lake.

THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:

You were lucky to have a lake! There were a hundred and fifty of us living in t' shoebox in t' middle o' road.

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:

Cardboard box?

THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:

Aye.

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:

You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.

SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:

Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!

THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:

Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to 'ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two wit' bread knife.

FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:

Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:

And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you.

ALL:

They won't!

 

[Anni]

Getting yer dear ole mam to drop you off round the corner from the disco

 

Turning yer Parka inside out so it was bright orange.

 

tying yer Parka by one stud round your neck, running around like you had a cape on.

 

Giving your best mate an unsuspecting dead leg.

 

Asking you mum for more dinner money when 10 JPS went up.

 

Thinking you dad was indestructable.

 

Winding your Evil Knieval stunt bike up full speed and rubbing the wheel against your brothers' head.

 

Leaving yourself exactly 30 seconds to get home on time from half a mile away.

 

Playing a 45 at 16

 

Showing off that digital watch

 

"winding your evil knieval bike up full speed and rubbing the wheel against your brothers head"

 

HAHA thats what brothers are for lol.

[Yorkshire Pudding]

Can't even remember what i was going to say .

 

all the best yis yp

[Mrs Sweepy]

We had to make are own knickers at school. they were thick and dark blue .

And you could fit you and your best mate in them at the same time.

 

xxxxSuzy

[staglioni]

WOWwish i was your best mate Suzy

stag

[taz24]

.

 

Jublees

 

Party sevens

 

Fizzy water from a soda syphon

 

Wagon wheels as big as a dinner plate

 

A Jonny seven

 

Action man with eagle eyes

 

kepping the change for going to the shop

 

Showing neigbours respect and calling them Mister and Mrs

 

Playing out till your mam called you in when it stated to get dark.

 

taz

 

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Edited November 29, 2008 by taz24

[staglioni]

yeh thats it Taz what about fire ball xl 5

stag

[new to the flock]

No Video Games!!!!...you know I still cant stand them.

 

OUt riding the horse where ever we liked....many a evening would find darkness coming on with 6 or 7 miles to go to get home.

 

Camping out down at the river, and being safe.

 

Wandering off with a fishing pole, a rifle, and a horse and coming home 4 days later.

 

Alison and her blue teddy.

 

skinny dipping out at the lake.

 

NTTF

[new to the flock]

Sitting on your Dads lap and driving the truck home down the road.

 

Being terrified when the cops said we will be around to see your Dad, after you had been caught doing something wrong.

 

NTTF

[Mrs Sweepy]

Do you often get into trouble with the cops.Mr Flock.

 

xxxxSuzy

[new to the flock]

Every where I go it seems

 

NTTF

[Chard]

Black Spangles, and I mean black ones, not those purple blackcurrant ********.

 

Here's an advert of the day, describing their gay new packet

 

I seem to think that asking him if he's got his brush, might elicit an interesting response in some parts these days

 

[MM]

i never had any happy times as a kid

[duncan]

Black Spangles, and I mean black ones, not those purple blackcurrant ********.

 

Here's an advert of the day, describing their gay new packet

 

I seem to think that asking him if he's got his brush, might elicit an interesting response in some parts these days

 

brilliant = fruit polo`s , sherbet dip , winter mixture, colacubes it`s a wonder i`ve got any teeth left

[Chard]

brilliant = fruit polo`s , sherbet dip , winter mixture, colacubes it`s a wonder i`ve got any teeth left

 

Life Savers, now we're really going back pre-Spangles. These used to come in all sorts of different tubes, like Spangles. Then they started making horrible squishy gummy things for runts with no teeth

 

Rutter-bum, rutting-bum butter-rum, butter-bum

 

[vole]

Oxford bags with side pockets. Bags of Kali. Wrangler jackets. Kung Fu on Saturday teatime. Live fire exercises at the Farnborough Airshow. Putting bangers in bottles.Dunlop Steel Toe cap boots.