What takes you back?...

[Jemisa]

I've just finished tidying up etc the living room after the havoc of two G/children yesterday & behind a cushion I found a 'Dib-Dab' forgotten about I suppose.
I loved sherbet as a kid and dared myself to eat it. I tore the top off in anticipation dipped the lolly in the compacted sherbet powder and...
Imadiately was transported to the streets where I played, to my junior school, my teachers even. I went back to the park I played in, picnics with Tizer & sugar sandwiches.
I was sorry when I finished it. Certainly a 'Blast from the Past'

What takes you back?

Jem

Jem.

[mccfluff]

time traveling dib dabs, wow i want some

music does that with me

[237SJ]

Perfumes - especially suntan lotions from hot summers gone by.

[dotty.]

in the summer hols, seeing cattle and horses in a field, we grew up on a farm and spent our spare time dodging the cattle in the back field on long summer nights playing football or cricket, I also used to play tennis on my own bashing the ball against the side of the barn wall,

[Frank97]

Music alway does it for me, when I flick through and play my old album collection it's just like reading through a diary of times past.

[snags]

Did you run out of lolly or sherbert first?

[Baldric]

Horses, grew up at a family run riding stable,
and as I got a bit older young ladies in jodphurs,
Happy days!
;o)

[Jemisa]

Snags, Ran out of lolly first (I sucked it to death) then used me finger and finally tipped my head back and poured the remainder from the bag in my mouth. mmmmm!! Next time I go to the sweetshop to get the kids their
Dib-Dabs I'll buy an extra one for ME!

jem

[ummmm]

Music, mainly, and like 237 smells. The smell of hair moose reminds me of Tunisia along with The Bee Gees 'You Win Again' and Fleetwood Mac 'Little Lies'

[hellywelly4]

Do you remember the bags of sherbet with a liquorice stick in that you tried to suck the sherbet up with, and it always got blocked up?

[Pooka1950]

Hellywelly4 - I used to love those! Happy days :-)

[Jemisa]

Helly & Pooka, You can still buy those go into any Retro sweet shop in your High St. They do have them (Not 3d-but 50p) enjoy & watcch the memories flood back.

Jem

[Maydup]

Flasks take me back. To a time before lattes and visitor centres when we'd pull up somewhere and get the picnic out or open the boot of the car at the beach.

I'm not a great one for picnics and warm sandwiches now but I do get nostalgic about flasks.

[paddywak]

Music does it every time, I only have to hear the opening of this song and I'm back in '67.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkgozdtsh_g

[lankeela]

I saw some of these in the petrol station the other day and they were called 'Dip-Dabs' - I was convinced they used to be called Dib-Dabs and was relieved to see you refer to them as that. My mum used to work at Barratts sweet factory and would bring home all sorts of stuff - I loved the sugar coated dummies best. The sweet cigarettes were made from all the sweepings from the floor! I bought a 'Toastie' loaf the other day and the waxy paper wrapping reminded me of my grandma saving them to wrap my uncles 'snap' in. Some smells do it too, Imperial Leather brought back memories of a 'posh' cousin and her husband who I used to stay with.

[Duncer]

Regressive hynotherapy works for me every time; I went right back to when I was Henry the Eighth last week.

[Mick-Talbot]

Memories of my DeLorean DMC-12

[firewatch]

Music especially christian music reminds me of my mum. The smell of incense takes me back to sundays, the smell of he sea and the rush of the waves reminds me of the town where I grew up, a certain fabric conditioner to the first flat we lived in together, the smell of a damp land Rover to the worst holiday of my life!!

[Mrsspagnoli57]

Old English Spangles....loved them, sherbert fountains-used to eat the white powder with a spoon,smell of original Ambre Solaire, morning coffee biscuits-we used to sell them at the school tuck shop-today's are nothing like the same taste.

[Jemisa]

Yes Lankee I had always called them Dib-Dabs but I noticed on this bag it was Dip-Dabs, I don't know which is right but to me they will always be 'Dib-Dabs.

Most of you talk about stuff taking you back to when you were teens or younger, but I mean 9 - 10 years old.

jem