Childhood Memories???

*Lees*

Myself and my sister were chatting last night and found ourselves in a fit of giggles reminiscing about the good old days!!!!
One thing that has always stuck with me growing up and that still haunts me to this day is.......
..........my mother's knitting!!! :mad:

I used to live in a big housing estate called "Springfield Estate"... My parent's unfortunatly christened me "Lisa"... anyway my mam found a pattern for a lisa simpson jumper on a magazine and thought it would be cute if she knitted me one!!... Oh what a disaster... she knitted me this big green woolly jumper with a red lisa simpson on the front!!!

.... It was the 80's... the poor days when nobody had anything!.. She didn't know what colour Lisa Simpson was because we only had RTE1 and RTE2 which didn't show the simpson's!!! OH THE SHAME!!!!:eek:

Hehehe... Has anyone got any funny childhood memories??? Or embarrassing stories about what your mother dressed you in?? hehe

Sparky

things i remember from my young days were, the good teenage mutant hero turtles, some of the old songs, we only had the 2 or 3 channels at the time and didnt have cable, as everyone did at the time, so the classroom discussion of the simpsons, i was left in the background listening.
Ah i will always miss my young days, people were true when they said they were the best days of your life, at most the easiest.:D

*Lees*

Hehehe... yea i sat in the back listening to people talking about the simpson's with my trendy lisa simpson jumper!!hehe

Oh my god... the turtles!!! Hehehe... i used to fancy Donatello!!!!... He is the guy with the puple head band isn't he??... hehe... i used to fancy him because purple was my favourite colour?? hehehe

xzanti

Yeah I grew up in a housing estate as well... I have a lot of fond memories, playing queeny-IO and making rope swings on lamp posts, playing tip the can, buying cheap sh*tty sweets off the ice cream man.. remember those horrible chewing gums you used to get with the transfer tatoos and you'd plaster your arms in them and you're mother would go mental cause she'd have to scrub your arms for an hour in the bath to get them off :rolleyes:

ferdi

queeny-IO.........very vague memories....what the hell was it?

tip the can - an eternal classic.

Le Rack

When I was two and living at my Nan's there was a play pen for me but I hated it. Instead Nan had a big drawer for pots and pans and I used to pull them out and sit happily in the drawer!

Oh and feeding my pet lambs in the kitchen by the fire on bottles of warm milk...

And my kitten Figgaro attacking me while it was eating, but then the fox ate it!

Le Rack

God I sound like such a farm girl!
I'm not!

*Lees*

Oh my god yeaaa.... the tattoos!!! hehe... they must have been made from chewing gum or something because they really stuck!!!! I used to be red raw from being scrubbed!!!!
And kiss and torture!!!
..... hehe.... and jumble sales!!!! we used to have people plagued over our jumble sales!!!! My mam used to buy our toys from us to shut us up!!! haha

ferdi

kiss chasing...now there's a game that shoulndt die with childhood

xzanti

ferdi wrote:

queeny-IO.........very vague memories....what the hell was it?

tip the can - an eternal classic.

Queeny-IO who has the ball
Is she big or is she small
Is she fat or is she thin etc etc.....

It was a game where someone would throw a tennis ball with their back turned to the catchers and then have to guess who caught it... bit lame but we were easily amused

ferdi

of course, pure genius!

Le Rack

and all those jumpy hand clappy games!

dundalk cailin

ah the good old days
tip the can and kiss chase (or kiss catch as we called it) should be a staple part of every child's activites!

all my cousins and me used to spend sat afternoons coming up with the most imaginatve games (in our opinions anyway!!) then we'd arrive in filthy and have to be scrubbed clean

the teenage mutant hero turtles, loved that prog

Dellgirl

I used to share a room with my brother - him being 2 years younger than me. I was about 5 and decided one fine Summers evening that we would go to bed quietly for a change and then when all was clear pile stuff up till we got to window level.
It was the finest jail break of all time - until a neighbour saw a 5 year old and a 3 year old running around on the roof of a 2 storey house and had to crawl out to get us without not making us losing our footing through the excitment of being chased around. We thought it was the best fun ever until we saw about 10 neight bours standing around at various points around the house. My mother was in the bedroom trying to coax us in.
Poor woman. The 1st of many trials.
Locks appeared ont he window the next day!

dundalk cailin

xzanti wrote:

Queeny-IO who has the ball
Is she big or is she small
Is she fat or is she thin etc etc.....

It was a game where someone would throw a tennis ball with their back turned to the catchers and then have to guess who caught it... bit lame but we were easily amused

we called that alabala alabala who's got the ball, i havent got it, he/she hasnt got it albala alabala whos got the ball... or something along those lines!!

also red rover..

BossArky

Someone was always "getting the stick" from the teacher for misbehaviour.

Dave!

My sister used to dress me up as a girl

Trousers for hair, high heels, the whole works...

My dad must have been scareeeeddd! :eek:

dundalk cailin

Lol at dave!! u poor thing, must have been traumatic!!!

Naos

Ah Rec - All things Retro, how I do adore you..

Cant be Manhunt/IRA Bash.. Classic game.
Also that chasing one called "Stuck in the mud' - when you were caught you had to stand still legs apart, and someone had to crawl under you to free you..

Le Rack

DaveMcG wrote:

My sister used to dress me up as a girl

Trousers for hair, high heels, the whole works...

My dad must have been scareeeeddd! :eek:

I do that to my bro...

NoDayBut2Day

Le Rack wrote:

and all those jumpy hand clappy games!

Those were fun... hehe.

I also remember playing an annual game of "boys chase girls" or "girls chase boys" when the homeschooled kids would meet to take their SAT's. I don't know how this game started up each year, but it's like everyone knew exactly what we would be playing each day on the playground!

Sparky

kiss chasing, we called it tonsil hockey, didnt have a clue about it till it happened
Then in my childhood, i finally knew what it felt like to be booted in the balls, by a girl.
Its like they know naturally where to hit

Pain was the second thing in my childhood, from having my little finger crushed in a gate by another girl, to being run down by a car 2 hours after my first communion

dundalk cailin

ah yea stuck in the mud that was fun!

boneless

Goin' on the hop from school... I used to love the victory of not getting caught.

Adding 10p of sweets to the shopping bill, even though your mother knew you did it; it was one of those tacit agreements.

The first explorations of the other race... GIRLS!! They were a strange band of creatures... and I thank the Supreme Being I do not believe in for them!!

I wish I was on the cusp of life again...

*Lees*

hehehe... We used to play "getting married".. haha... i remember wearing my sister's communion dress and i got married to the fella living a few doors up!!! haha... twas a great day out!!! hehe

Originally Posted by DaveMcG
My sister used to dress me up as a girl

Trousers for hair, high heels, the whole works...

My dad must have been scareeeeddd!

My brother used to dress up as wonder woman!!.. My mother made him a cape and all!.. He used to wear a helmet and run into walls!! hehehe

Kablamo!

bikers crisps. remember them; anyone?
and johnsons room, with that really sad accordion!

dundalk cailin

i used to play the accordion..AGH!! and of course the obligatory irish dancing

PS loved biker crisps, and fives, snaps

Sparky

hot lips yum
they're still out it think

Canis Lupus

xzanti wrote:

Yeah I grew up in a housing estate as well... I have a lot of fond memories, playing queeny-IO and making rope swings on lamp posts, playing tip the can, buying cheap sh*tty sweets off the ice cream man.. remember those horrible chewing gums you used to get with the transfer tatoos and you'd plaster your arms in them and you're mother would go mental cause she'd have to scrub your arms for an hour in the bath to get them off :rolleyes:

God I remember those tatoos. They were the bomb. As for tip the can. I recently taught my young brothers and sister to play it and I spent the summer acting like a kid again. Mind you now that I'm a few feet taller and distinctly wider it's damn hard to find a good hiding place, never mind running to the can. Pesky kids.

Or after being reminded about it by a mate last nite who used to chew the stems of those weeds with the pink flowers. They were bitter but nice.

Green_Martian

Burger bites anyone???

They were lovely as well, Stinger bars and Strawberry refresher bars mmmmmmmmmm i feeling hungry now lol

MrJoeSoap

Tip the can, Queeny-I-O, Red Rover, Kerbs, Polio, there are tonnes more but thats all I can remember now.

Pighead

Makepeace sweet sweet Makepeace
Pighead was only a nipper but that was the 1st crush I ever had and it`s never left me to this day.Glynis Barber used to make my knees wobble and other parts twitch when she played the role of Detective Sgt. Harriet Makepeace the hit series Dempsey and Makepeace.
I remember harbouring a deep hatred for Dempsey everytime he kissed my sweet Harriets lovely lips.As i got older I consoled myself with the fact that they were only acting and she probably hated kissing him.

No such fcuking luck,Michael Brandon & Glynis Barber got married on November 18, 1989 in London after several years of relationship.
In 1990, they moved to Los Angeles, USA, where their son Alexander was born on November 21, 1992. They moved back to London in 1996.Still going strong.Forget about it Pighead shes gone.

Sparky

ah young love, it came and went

Piste

I was in a playschool and we had these two boxes of old cklothes various people had donated and we used to play dress up in them. Sometimes we would make mini villages and towns where we'd have a shop owner who'd play with the clothes and ''sell'' them, a doctor who's play with the doctor's set, and a builder who's use the building set. It all seems so boring now but we absolutely loved it.

When we'd play outside we'd play restaraunt making 'burritos' out of leaves and selling them to eachother

xzanti

When we'd play outside we'd play restaraunt making 'burritos' out of leaves and selling them to eachother [/QUOTE]
No way.... we did that too *Cringe* only buritos where unheard of at that time (in my estate anyway) we used to make chips out of grass and burgers out of rocks.. and make a burger bar with the wall and some tires as seats god we were deprived kids :eek:

The_Goose

Pighead wrote:

Makepeace sweet sweet Makepeace
Pighead was only a nipper but that was the 1st crush I ever had and it`s never left me to this day.Glynis Barber used to make my knees wobble and other parts twitch when she played the role of Detective Sgt. Harriet Makepeace the hit series Dempsey and Makepeace.
I remember harbouring a deep hatred for Dempsey everytime he kissed my sweet Harriets lovely lips.As i got older I consoled myself with the fact that they were only acting and she probably hated kissing him.

No such fcuking luck,Michael Brandon & Glynis Barber got married on November 18, 1989 in London after several years of relationship.
In 1990, they moved to Los Angeles, USA, where their son Alexander was born on November 21, 1992. They moved back to London in 1996.Still going strong.Forget about it Pighead shes gone.

Stalk much ha ha ha

God the were great games. Kiss chasing was the best but alas i only realised i shouldnt be running so fast until it was to late.

*Lees*

We used to have a lot of junk in our back garden!! Like wheelbarrows, wooden planks & washing machine drums! (dont ask!!)

hehe... We used to make fun fairs and stick up signs and charge the other kids to take a ride on the "wicked wheelbarrow!" haha... we used a washing machine drum with a plank then to make a merry go round!!..

God it was class!!.. We were smart kids!! haha:rolleyes:

arctic lemur

I grew up on an estate too, usedto play rounders out the 'back field' or went swimming in the 'railway bridge'. we used to have 'sales' at weekends where we'd sell our toys to each other. We also used to have a shopvan that used to come Saturday mornings after Danger Mouse iand he sold alphabeth sweets. In school we used to play queenie and corners.

trishh

I grew up in a real country setting with bog and trees surrounding us ! I did all the usual growing up, running, dancing, accordion, guitar, tin whistle, even the fiddle for a while ! I used practice running before a sports day and nearly always turn on my ankle(s). Had a shopvan come once a week, Tuesday, I think. I remember once I was allowed go with my older brother, on our own ! What a thrill ! I wish my kids would get a thrill this easy ! Anyway, it must have been during the summer. While waiting he pushed me into a big puddle/ little pond. I was soaked. I had to go home, I will never ever forget it ! hehe.

Piste

xzanti wrote:

Piste wrote:

When we'd play outside we'd play restaraunt making 'burritos' out of leaves and selling them to eachother

No way.... we did that too *Cringe* only buritos where unheard of at that time (in my estate anyway) we used to make chips out of grass and burgers out of rocks.. and make a burger bar with the wall and some tires as seats god we were deprived kids :eek:

Aye, sometimes we're be totally REAL LIFE and EAT the leaf-burritos.


I think these childhood games were a forerunner for RPGs and larping.

Femelade

artic lemur wrote:

In school we used to play queenie and corners.

quenie queenie who has the ball
is she fat or is she tall
is she like a rubber ball


thats all i can remember.ah the memories

idontknowmyname

I was a huge tomboy when I was a kid, what the boys did I could the same and better, my mam would find me: climbing trees, down in the river, beating the crap out of any boys who hassled me or my sisters, I had my plastic sword taken off me because I thought I was She-Ra and kept whacking the boys with it. Also a boy on our road stole my sisters bike, I found it outside his house, he kept insisting it was his- even though it was pink and had my sisters name on it....I hit him quite hard on the head a load of times with my Finders Keepers horse.....I was quite a violent little missy back then..... was very finny though

Dizzyblabla

does anyone remember ching chang chinaman?

you had rubber bands that went around two people's ankles and then jumped in and out of the rubber bands? I can't remember the song and it's been driving me nuts for years now...

it was something like
Ching chang chinaman sitting on a fence
something something something something fifty pence
he missed he missed he missed like this
did you ever see a chinaman miss like this?

anyone remember it?

Bartronilic

Tip the Can! It was the be all and end all of my childhood games. First there was the dip. The same bratty ***holes would be the dippers. Then they would fix the dip so the ginger reject on my road (not meant as offence this is what happened) would be on. Then he would start counting, but beacuse he was a bit slow he would miss a few numbers. Also he had to say "1,2,3,4 no one come near my door" which meant that NOBODY could hide withing 20 steps of the pole (or street light). Anyway on my road and other people's roads there was ALWAYS the same characters:

-THE LOSER: The person who thinks they're good at the game and takes risks in getting near the pole but isn't really that good and gets caught first (me ).
-SORE LOSER: Same as above but this person is a sore loser.
-THE "BEST": The little clique of guys who aren't that good but make up excuses when they get caught and getsaway with it because they are the cheese.
-THE REAL BEST: The over determined one who thinks they are James Bond. Always did well and never was a sore loser.
-THE FLIRTY PANTS: The girl from around the corner who everyone likes and somehow amazingly doesn't have to obey the rules and wins everytime, gosh I wonder why?
-THE RULEBOOK: The one who, no matter what, states the rules constatly - always the prat who said "it's not who says the rhyme frist but the one who kicks the can first".
-THE NON-ATHLETIC GIRL: The one who was extremely terrible at the game. Usually quit.
-THE CLUMSY ONE: If a game didn't end in arguments it ended with the clumsy one falling dramatically and breaking their leg or on my friend's road (when his little borhter and friends were playing), impaled on a graveyard fence - he's alright now though.

Some vicious and traumatising fights happened because of tip the can - one of which, on my road eventually ended up with a skateboard to the head and a police inquiry (I'm not gonna fully say why).

We used to swap clothes sometimes or leave shoes out behind walls to trick people (worked on the slow guy). When the game Metal Gear Solid came out we'd seen it all before.

Tip the Can = My childhood.

Bartronilic

Oh yes and childhood drama - the petty kind in a mixed school. Like in 2nd class when I got kissed (on the cheek ) by the new foreign girl, I wasn't invited to this guys birthday's party because of it. Back in 2nd class a kiss from a girl was not a god thing since girls had germs.

Another thing from childhood was !bad words! I remember the first time I heard the "f-word". It was in a short tennis (tennis with soft balls) lesson and this troublemaker from another class said it. I didn't hear it but everyone whispered "colm said the f-word :eek: ", someone told the coach and we were lectured about it. I didn't have a clue what was going on! And I had to (embarrasingly) ask my parents.

Nobody knew what "sex" was it was called "S-E" followed by a :eek.

Another thing from childhood was WATER FIGHTS. This is carried into adulthood in some ways but as a child they were the business!

Okay I'll stop now. Double post, I apologiese :rolleyes:

dabbler2004

does anyone rememeber hal'penny toffees, 20 sweets for 10p! or choc mice, macroom bars, big time? bars, tayto snax for 7p a bag........
we used to play 'bell-fast' where you'd ring someone's doorbell and then run off when they answered, considering I grew up in an estate that was a lot of p***ed off people! but good honest clean fun all the same we'd play rounders too, kick the post and bulldog, anyone remember that?

Scraggs

aw man I wanna be a child again!! When I first moved to Carlow I lived on an estate and I was the only girl out of about 10 or so similar aged boys and they were so mean to me!
We used to play 'what time is it mr. wolf', stuck in the mud, kick the can,
rounders.. .although that got banned for a while because of the huge arguements it would cause, red rover....
oh and we used to say 'queeny queeny who has the ball, is he big or is he small, is he fat or is he thin or is he like a rolling pin??... or something like that.
God the memories...

Scraggs

dabbler2004 wrote:

we used to play 'bell-fast' where you'd ring someone's doorbell and then run off when they answered, considering I grew up in an estate that was a lot of p***ed off people! but good honest clean fun all the same we'd play rounders too, kick the post and bulldog, anyone remember that?

oh yeah we played those aswell, we called them different names though like Bell-fast was called 'Knock-a-dolly' and kick the post was 'tip the can' afaicr