When WE were kids

[matthew]

Good stuff.....waiting for the last strip of wheat to be cut and trying to catch the rabbits: moving the last bales in the stack and the mayhem that followed with sticks, dogs, men and kids flying in all directions after the rats: fishing in 'bottomless' pits: riding a 350 Matchless(brakeless) around the fields: making bows and arrows....et al. Fantastic times.

[Jim Roper]

Getting off your bike when a car was coming because you had no lights!

 

Not riding on pavements!

 

Grass growing in the middle of the road!

 

Army convoys and the miles of communication wires that were laid in the ditches!

 

The fear of telling them at home that you had been caned!

 

Rope swings in the woods!

 

Bird-nesting and protecting the songbirds by ragging magpies' and crows' nests!

 

Carrying an airgun wherever you wished!

 

Taking the milking cows up the road on your own at 4 years old!

 

Taking the dog for a walk and bringing home a rabbit!

 

Skinning the rabbit!

 

WALKING!

 

Giving strangers directions!

 

Following the binder and stooking up the sheaves!

 

Policemen on push bikes!

 

Rationing!

 

Teachers with army haircuts (all ex desert rats)!

 

1 to 12 times tables on the back of every exercise book!

 

No calculators!

 

Chalk boards!

 

Blackboards!

 

No coloured pencils!

 

1962/3 is when it all started to go wrong!

 

Jim Roper

 

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[Guest NickInTheNorth]

Jim, got to disagree with you about it all going wrong around 1962/63, everything on this thread is a reflection of my own very happy childhood memories.

 

I reckon it all started to go generally awry about 1970.

 

I regretted the passing of all this stuff so much that I have tried to find somewhere where I can give my children a similar experience. I am very fortunate to have been able to do so, but there are very few places left in the UK where it's possible.

[Jim Roper]

NickInTheNorth:

I reckon it all started to go generally awry about 1970.

I still think that the Beatles, That Was The Week That Was, and the Wilson government of 64 had a lot to answer for.

 

I know it all seemed fantastic at the time but in hindsight?

 

I was 16 and my dad was 74 in 1963.

 

Perhaps it's the Victorian upbringing!!

 

Sometimes I want to stand on top of Chesil Beach in October as the sun is coming up and shout at the World "You're all mad. Look what I've got here you don't know anything about it".

 

You must get the same feeling, Nick.

 

Jim Roper

[nursejudy]

jim

will you shout for me or take me with you when you go

nursejudy

[Jim Roper]

nursejudy:

jim

will you shout for me       or take me with you when you go    

nursejudy

COOOOERRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

[DCB]

It didn't go wrong in 62/63 or the 70's, what happened was the bloody politicians decided to interfere. We ****** them off because we were enjoying ourselves and were free spirits. The powers that be decided that we were at risk and needed protection from ourselves. Total b---ocks.

Kids to day are wrapped in cotton wool and will never experience the freedom to enjoy - to risk - to be extended - to be challenged.

To appreciate dawn or sunset.

To be cold, wet and miserable.

To be elated.

To discover.

 

Could be the end of the world is nye? (how do you spell n--?)

 

B----cks - over my dead body.

 

The truth is out there if you want it.

 

I've bin there and got the tee shirt and video, have you?

 

Angling is the last great escapist sport and, I'm a fully paid up member, are you?

 

Come the Revolution bruvvers, where will you be?

DCB

[Newt]

DCB:

... Could be the end of the world is nye? (how do you spell n--?)....

Nigh