Its funny the things you remember!! (Childhood Memories)

Member Name: KELLY170980

Product:	Childhood Memories
Date:	11/11/08 (351 review reads)
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Advantages: When i look at my childhood on the whole, I realise it was very happy!

Disadvantages: We did not have loads of money, and I wish I had more opputunies than I had

I have loads of great childhood memories and loads of sad ones, But I have long discovered that you need to not waste time on concentrating on the bad experiences and memories and look to the future and remember all the good times, so here our my top ten childhood memories....hope you like them.

1. Fighting over the radio and TV times at xmas.

Every Christmas my mum and dad would buy these magazines, as did most families I know, we would then sit as a family and circle all our favourites to be watched over Xmas and New Year.... You know the type...only fools and horses specials..... ab fab specials...stars in your eyes, family fortunes....god there are loads I can remember arguing about with my family, but the funny thing is this tradition in my family still has not died out, even though I have cable and can easily look at a guide, at xmas I still buy the magazines, I suppose its just nostalgia that makes me do it...but I know the rest of my family do it as well.

2. Picking strawberries and vegetables from my granddads allotment

My granddad used to have a huge piece of land next to his house when I was really young, he sold it to the council and they put two houses on it when I was about 12...they offered him loads of money, and he was retiring so he took them up on the offer, but some of my happiest memories are from helping him look after the vegetables and especially the strawberries, he used to let me eat them without washing them...so silly..but id never let my kids do that!!! But you just did not care in those days.... My granddad says that modern mums worry too much about germs...I suppose he's right, it did me no harm.
We would pick the apples from his apple trees and the rhubarb and then nan would let me help her make apple and rhubarb crumble.

3. Library visits with my aunty

Each week my aunty would take me to the library with her, it was to give my mum a break as there was four of us running around and also I always close to my aunty, she had no children of her own, so I was like her practise child..hehe!!
Anyway, we would go in and sit for hours sometimes reading and reading, she would always take us up a flask of earl grey tea and those garibaldi biscuits...... was the place were I always felt safe and happy.
I can remember loving Judy Blume books one time and reading the whole of the fudge book in one visit to the library.
We would also go on the computer as well which I found great fun, as in those days not everybody could afford a pc at home and we defiantly could not, so I always felt quite excited to go on the computer and search for books I wanted to read.

4. Foreign exchange students

From as long as I can remember my mum and dad used to be host family to many different nationalities of exchange students. It was great as growing up I met many people from all different countries and culture and made some really good friends.

But the one that sticks out in my memory the most is Christophe the creep!!!! I was eleven years old and we had a student called Christophe who was 13 years old and was staying with us for two weeks, he actually locked me in my bedroom one day and chased me round my room trying to give me a kiss!!!!! In the end my mum heard me scream from outside where she was hanging the washing out and ran in and saved me.... She called the leader of the organisation and he was sent on the first ferry back to France..... Now when I think back it's quite funny.... As he was saying..."Kelly ...I love you ...please kiss me....!!!! "
My family still laugh about this, because as I got slightly older I would have jumped at the chance as whenever we did have some French, Spanish, Italian etc boys come to stay, I often ended up fancying them..... My mum and dad then started to specify they only have girl students!!! Spoilt sports!!!

5. The pop man and the chip van

I'm not sure if anyone else had this, but we used to have a man that came round in a sort of a milk float thing and sell pop, we used to then save the bottles and give them back each week....I can remember we'd have cream soda and dandelion and burdock...yummy!!!

Then on a Thursday there was a mobile chip shop in a van that would come round with a huge annoying hooter that would sound as he entered your street, everyone would run out to get there sausage in batter and chips...yum yum!!

Why do we not have things like this anymore?????

6. Some of the TV programs

I can remember so many programs that we loved, like highway to heaven, bullseye, catchphrase, a team, he man, she-ra, the fraggles, last of the summer wine, price is right..... God I could go on and on.

One that stands out in my mind the most is terrahawks...I swear I am still scared of that evil witch women in it!!!!

7. 10p mix bags

My Nan on a Saturday would give me and my sister ten pence and we'd go down the shop and get a mixed bag, you'd get a little paper bag and I can remember cola bottles being ½ a pence each or sometimes we'd have ten pence worth of sherbet!!!! God if I gave my kids ten pence now....what would they get??? Not a lot!!! If anything!! Hahaha!!! It makes me feel sooooo old !!!!

8. Beano comics

I loved beano comics and would often get treated to one from my granddad, my favourite character was mini minx, I can also remember being so chuffed whenever there was a free gift on the front like a wham bar or highland toffee bar!!! Some lovely things to rot the teeth!!!

9. The music I liked!!!

I loved Aha, Roxette and Rick Astley, they are the more earlier ones I can remember, I can remember one of the first albums I had was Roxettes Joyride ....it came with the lyrics inside the cover of the LP, I memorised every single word to it must have been love !!!! How sad!!!

10. The laughs with my family

We were a big family, I am the oldest of four, and my mum is the youngest of 6, my dad is the oldest of 4....so I had loads of family around me at all times, I met all great grandparents and up until last year I had all my grandparents alive also..... So I have loads of really lovely memories of times with cousins and grandparents, mum and dad, sister and brothers for e.g. silly family holidays when dad fell in the canal, when the xmas tree set a light, when Nan burnt her eye brows, when my sister wet herself from laughing too much, when mums underskirt fell down at a funeral, my uncle singing rugby songs, watching my uncle when he played for notts county and my cousin when he played for cov city, listening to my mum and her friends gossip over the fence, my Nan getting locked in the outside loo!!!! God I could go on forever with memories.....


These are some of the fondest memories I have, there are loads more and it's silly the ones you keep dear, the smells you remember, the conversations you have, but I think everyone is the same.

Summary: I could find loads of negatives and what ifs about my childhood, but i prefer to remember the good!