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Wot wi my wig,i think not ;)

I remember as a 10year old staying at my nans in a Yorkshire village I went with my cousin Paul (same age) and we helped load bales of straw on to a trailer climbing higher and higher as more were added ,then rode home on top pulled by a tractor-no seat belts-Bliss I can hear the H&S bods sharpening their pencils from here.

I remember Spurs winning the UEFA Cup in 84 and I sat in my mates opened boot all the way home with him honking his hooter and the old bill never batted an eye lid.  ;D ;D ;D

Hi Tim,

That looks as though it was taken in the "good old days" when summers were sunny & warm, winters had snow and food tasted great without all the additives.  :D

Oh and in those days we went out to play from first thing in the morning until the dark of night (only returning when Mam called us in for meals). Lot's of fresh air and exercise. Not a computer in sight!

Sigh!  :)

MP

So which one was you Tim?

My headmistress told me to climb trees instead of the curtain rails  - which of course I did, then got found I was right at the top of a tree when the bell went for lunch.
Try telling an eldery nun that you were late for lunch because you were at the top of a tree ;D
We also used to jump off the top of the oil tank - and not a sprained ankle or broken bone between us ;D

 

   'elf and safe T,    saves many lives but impedes the develpoement of the young  ---   and

   many adventurous not so young,    Would have been locked up for ' my own good ' had

   they been around when I was between , say 7 and 12  ----   what a time we had !      ;D

As usual, Diggers, I took the photo.

And to think that that machine (1951 Mk1 £160) took 6 teenagers to Greece for 14 days with the sides up to & from . [attachment=1]

And me to the station each week.  [attachment=2]

yep, not enuff kids falling off the bonnet and getting run over by their parents these days!! lol ;) ;) ;) ;D ;D

great photos Tim - love the dickie  :D

reminds me of being a student and squeezing 9 of us into a hilman imp...... ::)

Quotenot enuff kids falling off the bonnet and getting run over by their parents these days

No if you read the Daily Mail they reverse over them on the drive...  :'(

but who reads the daily mail! ?? ;)

Me... online when it's quiet on here...  :)

so you're the one!!

yep... and not afraid to admit it... I miss having something to wrap the apples in though... use the freebies now...  ;D

I`m all for sense but not paranoia.

I had a customer last year who was admiring my pond but said something like " But we have small children"

Now I have never been a parent but I did grow up just feet away from a brook and only yards away from a very big hole in the ground full of water that was once a brick pit.

It was part of life and every Friday morning the bus came to primary school and 9s and over went to the (unheated) swimming pool to learn to swim

When I was a child one of our neighbours lost a son of about 4 who drowned in a lodge (small reservoir) opposite our houses...  :'(

when I was a boy we went swimming in a washing up bowl.  If we were lucky!

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