Childhood Memories???

Pighead · 03-11-2005 12:45PM

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 · 03-11-2005 01:10PM

ah young love, it came and went

Piste · 03-11-2005 01:56PM

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 · 03-11-2005 02:26PM

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

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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 · 03-11-2005 02:55PM

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* · 03-11-2005 05:01PM

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 · 03-11-2005 09:14PM

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 · 03-11-2005 10:34PM

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 · 04-11-2005 02:31AM

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 · 13-03-2006 05:13PM

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 · 13-03-2006 06:54PM

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 · 13-03-2006 08:31PM

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 · 13-03-2006 10:26PM

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 · 13-03-2006 10:42PM

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 · 14-03-2006 12:54AM

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 · 14-03-2006 03:38AM

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 · 14-03-2006 03:40AM

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

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