Things you DON'T miss from your childhood?

[mrs_overall]

Ice on the inside of my bedroom window
Being responsible for lighting the coal fire every morning
Being dosed with malt & cod liver oil - yuk!

[DEN53]

Being given gas at the Dentist for a filling - to this day, I can't stand the smell of rubber......Clarkes school shoes that a compass in the heel............having to light the coal fire when I got in from school, with the gas poker, it always blew my eyebrows off.

[JMR27]

Iodine on cuts and butter rubbed onto burns (whose stupid idea was that?)

[mike11111]

Have to disagree about the malt and cod liver oil. Absolutely loved it. I wouldn't let the spoon out of my mouth till I'd had every last drop.

[rowanwitch]

Being the swotty fat kid with glasses or at least the teasing that went with it

My uncle Dick... (who used to try to get my little sister and I on our own 'to listen to records' and sit us on his very lumpy lap...if you get the picture

Being bored at school having to read baby books ....they eventually twigged and found something more suitable

[milly143]

Banana medicine.
Being used as an unwilling wrestling opponent by my brother.
Being made to sit alone at the dinner table until I had finished the food that I didn't want to eat.

[merciasounds]

school! I absolutely hated and detested school. It kept me away from things I would have rather been doing, like helping with the farm animals, helping gran shell peas, or pick mushrooms, or reading. I could already read and write when I started,I didn't play with dolls, so as far as I was concerned, what was the point of school!!?

[mike11111]

Gas poker? Now there's posh! Far too expensive for us - had to make do with scrunched up newspaper and sticks.

[JMR27]

DEN is posh - we lit the fire with matches or spills. And I always wanted shoes with a compass in the heel.

[mrs_overall]

Snap mike.
Some mornings if the wind was in the wrong direction I couldn't get the blooming tfire to light - tears would be streaming down my soot streaked face

[rowanwitch]

Being too big for proper kids clothes and later for teen fashion

[craft1948]

The tin bath in front of the fire..............I loved the malt and cod liver oil. Pobs in winter made me gyp......

[JMR27]

Collecting rosehips and getting ripped to shreds so I could take them to school where I got the princely sum of 4d a pound. Slave labour.

[DEN53]

Mike and JMR - haha - we used sticks and paper aswell - but you had to light a match and hold it under the gas poker and whoosh - no eyebrows

[Davethedog]

Shorts in the winter. Being made to stand outside when a class room was empty.

Mike I agree I used to love that malt thing yum.

[mrs_overall]

Also, I am one of ten kids and didn't sleep in a bed on my own until I was 16. I hated sharing.

[DEN53]

school milk - especially if it had been standing in the sun....

[boxtops]

All those things (but I did like Virol, yum)

[mrs_overall]

Urgh Den - I'd forgotten about warm school milk. I'm gagging as I type

[merciasounds]

which end did you sleep Mrs_overall - the shallow end or the deep end?!!

[redman41]

Starting up the Generator every night as no Mains Electricity.
Carrying water from a Well as no Mains Water either, but the water was the best water you could ever wish for.
Anyone remember the Aladdin Lamps with that fragile wick ??