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Post by Shrubrose on Aug 23, 2007 19:19:26 GMT
oh dry, so dry wt. ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Biggles on Aug 23, 2007 19:38:15 GMT
It's the medication, myacer ;D ;D    |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2007 17:57:48 GMT
We always spent our summer days roaming free in Derbyshire, rock jumping, paddling, looking for gold. My plant memories, the tiny things growing among the rocks, bracken above my head & its smell and heather just before we were back trapped in school. It is the smell of bracken that does it for me now.
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Post by Weeterrier on Aug 27, 2007 18:07:28 GMT
Gertrude, that sounds lovely. We had a caravan as a child, and went every weekend to somewhere that sounds a bit like that. Making dams in streams, seeing primroses and frogspawn, making dens. Wonderful. Compared to some children, we were very lucky, weren't we? I'm very fond of Derbyshire.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2007 18:23:39 GMT
I do wonder what some of todays children's memories will be, inside doing little doesnot seem to be a memory that will last
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Post by seapoppy on Aug 27, 2007 19:11:06 GMT
My son and daughter have both had interesting childhoods, not perfect as life never is, but because their mother has the mental age of 3, and always been a dreamer I have been lucky enough to have enjoyed building dens, walking in the salt marshes bare foot,....covered in mud, playing soldiers in the back garden ( didnt enjoy that really........ boring), building lego etc etc.
I think I would speak for the majority of decent parents out there who all try in their own
way, to give a meaningful upbring for their children.
I always wanted a "Swallows and Amazons" ..... Enid Blyton..... type childhood, so I try and give it to mine, .......... I suppose I have never really grown up !!! Hey its more fun than being an adult ;D
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Post by Weeterrier on Aug 27, 2007 21:37:26 GMT
You're right there Pops!
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Post by seapoppy on Aug 28, 2007 8:33:10 GMT
.  ......... Wee |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2007 12:46:15 GMT
Lucky them. I can remember my son, having seen the Swallows & Amazons film 'sailing' up & down our long hall in a cardboard box with a sail & holes for his feet, for wet day after wet day in another poor summer years ago
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Post by Weeterrier on Aug 28, 2007 13:08:08 GMT
Swallows and Amazons was the first book I ever read, and I loved it. I can remember being quite terrified of The Amazons.  |
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Post by Shrubrose on Aug 28, 2007 18:16:57 GMT
I'm afraid I was a deprived child. Only ever read Enid Blyton and encyclopaedias. Got my birthday money and couldn't afford Winnie the Pooh so bought an IQ testing book instead. It was great fun and set me up for life  I dont think ;D |
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Post by Weeterrier on Aug 28, 2007 18:22:52 GMT
Shrub, I've noticed all the big words you sneak in to the Word Associations  I think your chosen reading DID set you up for life. We were one of those families who didn't have books, though we did have National Geographic delivered. The only books I had till I could buy them myself, were ones I won at school. Swallows and Amazons was one of those. |
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Post by Shrubrose on Aug 28, 2007 18:26:08 GMT
Oh wt, the power of the written word. I'm so different in 'life'. National Geographic, now there's 'intelligent'. We are subscribers. It's a great magazine. Not to say that we are intelligent, we just like the pictures  |
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Post by Weeterrier on Aug 28, 2007 20:10:14 GMT
You don't think any of US read the words Shrub? I always loved the adverts where students were given watches for Graduation. America just seemed such a wonderful place to a wee lass from Glasgow. In fact, there were a few hills that I could see from our wee house (A pre-fab built by Prisoners of War) and I was quite convinced they were "The Black Hills of Dakota". I think the song was in the hit parade then, sung by Doris Day, if I remember correctly.
I have a friend who met a girl on the Internet, married her, and went to live in Dakota. So he has said I can go visit anytime, and he'll take me to 'them thar hills.' ;D
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Post by seapoppy on Aug 28, 2007 21:20:05 GMT
When I look back at when I was 9 ish ( id a couple of happy years!!!) we lived with fields out the back of us, we would go all day to the river and woods make dens. We would also ride our bikes like crazy up and down alley ways. We would play "knock down ginger", and go srumpying. We used to walk 4 miles to the cinema on Saturdays. I think children nowadays are in the main taken to lots of different activities during holidays and after school. It is a different generation, not worse not better, i think. I did have that dreadful 1970s tennis game you would plug in to the tv. What about the xylophone, and Rolph Harris with his didgerydoo!!!!
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I dont think ;D
I think your chosen reading DID set you up for life. We were one of those families who didn't have books, though we did have National Geographic delivered. The only books I had till I could buy them myself, were ones I won at school. Swallows and Amazons was one of those.