Childhood summers

Tchaikovsky · 01-06-2009 07:59PM #1

The sunny weather has made me all nostalgic..
I remember the excitement of finishing school for a whole 2 months- the joy of thinking that we had 60 days of freedom

Playing football on the green until it got dark, playing Tip-the-Can, Red Rover, marbles, Commando, getting up early to watch cartoons, going on cycles, Wibbly Wobbly Wonders, Fat Frogs, 10p bags, bruises on my knees, going to the beach in Courtown, staying with my cousins in Cavan. Ahhh

Lizzykins · 02-06-2009 08:54PM

The summers then were always better! I remember 1976 -it didn't rain for months. We used to get up in the morning, walk to the local swimming pool which was a mile away,swim,walk home and do the same in the afternoon! My poor mother having to shell out for that lot.

Poutbutton · 02-06-2009 09:45PM

Ah blissful memories I remember the first grass cut in the local fields we'd play for hours having grass fights or building fortresses and playing house with piles of grass for walls. Hunting for frog spawn and having a bucket of tadpoles in your back garden a few days later. Bike rides exploring places you were'nt meant to go. Big cool pops, really big ones! Someones Mam taking way too many kids in her estate car to the beach for the day and the taste of salt off your arms on the way back squashed into the boot. Shrimp fishing on the rocks, getting lost and being found by some one elses Mam

The Phoenix park and tree climbing. Staying out til 10 playing marathon sessions of rounders with one kid shouting "Car" when needed and the Mams coming out to chat at the gate so you were guaranteed another 45 mins of play. Packing for your holidays in a caravan to Galway or Wexford or Rush! Day trips to the Zoo or the mountains, the crisp sandwiches always tasting so good whether there or at the beach. The heatwave in '76 and sitting in a kitchen basin all day out the back thinking it was the best pool ever while Mam & Dad sunbathed when they could. Parents rubbing Ambre Solaire onto your skin cos there was no such thing as sunscreen :eek: I could go on and on.......:D

Ann22 · 02-06-2009 11:45PM

Yes the long Summer holidays! Getting our school reports on our last day of school, the smell of freshly cut grass, games in the street like Red Rover, 1-2-3(tip the can), Polo, A Broken Old Ship, ball games, Tipping out of jail, Cops and Robbers, Ella Bella,Traffic Lights, Coca Cola and Fanta spinners, hula hoops and roller skating. Queuing at the cinema to see 'Grease'. Days when we were free to roam and only headed home for tea. I too spent weeks in Cavan with relatives...great times, swinging on a rope in the hayshed and landing on mountains of hay. Throwing stickybacks at each other, nightmare to get one in your hair..wtf were those anyway? Oh yeah and eating those little sour leaves..we called them 'juicies'...anyone else remember those?

Childhood summers

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