The good old days emails...C/D?

Close your eyes and go back in time...................

Before the Internet..............

Before semi-automatics, joyriders 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

Screwballs and 99's

Watching Saturday morning cartoons, short commercials or the pictures.

The Dukes Of Hazard, The Double Deckers, The Red Hand Gang

The A Team, Tiswas, Swap Shop and Why Don't You.

Staying up late for Dr Who

When around the corner seemed far away and going into town seemed like
going...somewhere

Earwigs, wasps, stinging nettles and doc leaves.

White dog shit

Sticky fingers, mud pies

Playing Marbles, Ball bearings and Acki 1 2 3

Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indjiuns and Wonder Woman

Climbing trees, building igloos and snowmen

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, dressing up in your moms nighties

Spinning around getting dizzy and falling down was cause for a fit of
the 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 lolls

Remember when.......

There were two types of trainers - girls and boys, Dunlop Green Flash
and the only time you wore them was at school for PE

Your 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 Whirleys, Space Dust and Toffo's

Top Trumps

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

When nearly everyone's Mum was home when the kids got there

When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him or use him to
carry the shopping and nobody not even the kid thought anything of it.

When being sent to the Headmasters office was nothing compared to the
fate that awaited a misbehaving pupil at home.

Basically we were in fear of our lives, but it wasn't because of drive
by shootings, drugs or gangs.

Parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat and some of us are
still afraid of them..Didn't that feel good?

Just go back and say...yeah I remember that.....Remember when........

Decisions were made by going "Ip Dip Bird Shit"

"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