What Do You!

[TWR]

What do you remember about your childhood that sticks in you mind?
Something special.

[boxtops]

Many things - hard to remember one thing more than any others - but school summer holidays seemed to last for months and months.

[tonyav]

A brand new bike for Christmas when I was ten, up until then I used to get my older cousins wore out hand me downs.

[Mamyalynne]

Everyone wanting to pinch a golden curl. :-)

[friedgreentomato]

A drunken mother!

[TWR]

It's strange you mention a bike Tony, My nice father sold mine, to double the pain, the basd sold my dog, some nice people in the world Eh?

[tonyav]

He sold your bike and your dog, the b@$*** him.

[stewey]

Sending letters to Santa up the chimney.

[tonyav]

Did you have your hair cut off then mamya ?.

[AlwaysConfused]

a lot of what we got was second hand or home made. I really wanted a go-kart, so my uncle made me one. My granddad made my doll's house and my nan made a rabbit hutch. And when I wanted a bike, we got a second hand one from the neighbours. It was a boys bike, red and rusty, but I loved it. Recently chatting to my OH, I found out it was HIS bike originally, going through the old photos proves it. We've both been over the same handlebars and had stitches in our knee because of that contraption!

[gness]

The best thing in my childhood was when I secretly joined the Protestant Brownie Pack......it led to lots of happy experiences right through to adulthood. Except for the hiccup when the parents and the church found out. :-)

[AlwaysConfused]

Your dad is nice, my father didn't sell our dog, he took him for a walk in the woods on night and 'accidently' mislaid him. I still hope he was rescued, I was too young to realise what had happened, or to put up a fight

[DTCwordfan]

Oh so many TWR - in your neck of the woods going to the opening day of England Australia at Old Trafford for the cricket in 1964 for my first test match - Lawry and Simpson having a double century opening stand and late in the day Lawry run out to be followed that evening by Redpath for the Ozzies to reach 253-2.

It was with my old man, my uncle and three cousins.

It was probably a unique match as Australia scored 656 in their 1st innings and England 611 - the second innings of Australia 4-0 at the end of the 5th day

(Simpson went onto score 311 and Ken Barrington for England made 276 and with him Ted Dexter 174).

[Mamyalynne]

No Tony - still got my curls,

[Psybbo]

Nothing:0(

[boxtops]

.. on reflection there is so much, some wonderful and some bad and sad, that maybe I don't want to add any more, this time round.

[Arti]

Getting lost in Alice In Wonderland, reading it in bed when I was about 9......so cosy :)

[tonyav]

Glad to hear that mamya.
Nothing sibo ?.

[tenrec]

I once went ratting with my Dad. There were rats everywhere and although I was scared, I really enjoyed that day!

[humbersloop]

smells mostly

the inside of my mum's handbag smelt of her face powder

the paraffin heater in the bathroom smell meant christmas was coming, so then the smell of (just one) pomegranite

when my dad worked away sometimes, sniffing his shirts in the laundry basket because I missed him

[owdhamer]

My Mother dying when I was 12 ,I was devastated.