Something for everybody in these dark times...

[one eyed jack]

Take a time out peeps. This is something to warm the cockles of your heart. Lets take a trip down memory lane to a time that was good.







Don't say you don't remember any of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!









If you're not smiling by the end of this ...







... then what were you doing when you were young?

Just for a minute, forget everything stressful and read

this...............







Close your eyes and go back in time...







Before the Internet...







Before semi-automatics, joy riders and crack....







Before SEGA or Super Nintendo...







Way back........







I'm talking about Hide and Seek in the park.







The corner shop.







Hopscotch.







Butterscotch.







Skipping.







Handstands.







Football with an old can.







Fingerbob.







Beano, Dandy, Buster, Twinkle and Dennis the menace.







Roly Poly.







Hula Hoops, jumping the stream, building dams.







The smell of the sun and fresh cut grass.







Bazooka Joe bubble gum.







An ice cream cone on a warm summer night from the van that plays a







tune Chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or maybe Neapolitan

or perhaps a

screwball.















Wait......







Watching Saturday morning cartoons, short commercials or the

flicks.

Children's Film Foundation, The Double Deckers, Red Hand Gang,







The Tomorrow People, Tiswas or Swapshop?, and 'Why Don't You'? -

or staying up for Doctor Who.















When around the corner seemed far away and going into town

seemed like

going somewhere.







Earwigs, wasps, stinging nettles and bee stings.







White dog s**t.







Sticky fingers.







Playing Marbles. Ball bearings. Big 'uns and Little 'uns.







Kiss Chase, Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, and Zorro.







Climbing trees.







Building igloos out of snow banks.







Walking to school, no matter what the weather.







Running till you were out of breath, laughing so hard that

your stomach

hurt.







Jumping on the bed. Pillow fights.







Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause

for giggles.







Being tired from playing....remember that?







The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.







Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.







Football cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a

motorcycle.







Choppers and Grifters.







Eating raw jelly. Orange squash ice pops.







Remember when...







There were two types of trainers - girls and boys, and

Dunlop Green

Flash -

and the only time you wore them at school was for P.E.







You knew everyone in your street - and so did your parents.







It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.







You didn't sleep a wink on Christmas eve.







When nobody owned a pure-bred dog.







When 25p was decent pocket money







Curly Wurleys. Space Dust. Toffo's.







Top Trumps.







When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.







When nearly everyone's mum was at home when the kids got there.







When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him or

use him to carry

groceries and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.







When being sent to the head's office was nothing compared

to the fate

that

awaited a misbehaving student at home.







Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't because of

drive-by

shootings, drugs, gangs etc.







Parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! and

some of us are

still afraid of them.







Didn't that feel good?







Just to go back and say, Yeah, I remember that! Remember when....















Decisions were made by going " Ip Dip Dog S**t "







"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.







Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in "Monopoly".







The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was germs.







And the worst thing in your day was having to sit next to one.







It was unbelievable that 'British Bulldog 123' wasn't an

Olympic event.







Having a weapon in school, meant being caught with a catapult.







Nobody was prettier than Mum.







Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better.







Taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable aspirin.







Ice cream was considered a basic food group.







Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true.







Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest

protectors.







If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED.







Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their

"grown up" life...







GO ON... I DOUBLE-DARE YOU!!!!!!!

Just thought I'd share this post with you. Someone sent it to me and it brought a smile to my face as I reminisced a time gone by....

[Rude Boy]

Nice one. Whatever did happen to white dog shit though? You never see an "Old White Crumbly" these days.

[tone]

Reading that felt like being given a gift. Thanks mate!

[steve56]

thanks for that terry,was good reading it today.

[modfather]

Ah i remember those days well , How times have changed.

You forgot water fights with fairy liquid bottles in the scorcher of 76

[Bob Singleton]

Thanks for that, Terry.

I've passed it on to everyone of my generation.

[mart]

Brought a tear to my eye.


Remember when you got money back on glass pop bottles.

Mart

[steve56]

empty bottles;yes i do in fact in 1967 down at camber sands i went out looking for bottles to get the money back on to play the juke box in the caravan park.

[diplodocus]

now for the boring science bit

white dog shit was shit that had been bleached by the sun ie. oxidised.

modern dog food has lots of posh new additives to make benji healthier and the mush last longer, one of those additives are 'anti-oxidants' which do that stuff. Hence the shite contains high levels of anti oxidants and is thus resistant to bleaching and doesn't turn white.

i'll crawl back into my books now

[steve56]

thank you david bellamy.lol.