Favourite Childhood Memory

[Eve]

What's yours?

[joggerjayne]

Presents.

[cazzz1975]

playing out at dusk will all my friends

[theonlyone]

None.......

[weecalf]

Spurs winning the double

[888sally888]

Winning a writing competition and the prize was a big box of Spangles!!

My dad buying me a calculator for my birthday and hiding it in a box of tissues!!

[hippyhoppy]

I remember summer in the back garden, on the swing, jumping off and ripping a massive hole in my dress...why was it always sunny then?

[whiffey]

Walking through fields to school. Christmas, when the decorations went up overnight. Playing in the windmill. Catching sticklebacks in Jack Newman's pond. That's four sorry.

[Eve]

You can have as many as you like Whiffey :)

[hippyhoppy]

...falling out of a tree aged 10 and breaking both bones in my arm so when I looked my hand was back-to-front and I had to spend a week in hospital - and it was the first week of the summer hols!!

[I Love Snow]

Going out on christmas morning with my new roller skates.

[Postdog]

The smell and site of the coal yards at the local station. Spelling "strawberry" in infants and getting a pack of maltesers. Summer swimming during the holidays at the (now gone) local outdoor pool.

And I guess above all the innocence that only being a kid can give, with no pressures, nothing to worry about, etc etc.

[whiffey]

Did anybody do "Swing and Drop", where you hung by your arms from the highest tree branch you dared and dropped to land amongst cow poo on young elastic ankles. Wandering around those childhood lanes now, I am well proud to see that as a kid I did a swing and drop from at least 30 feet. It was the scariest, I still remember it.

[hippyhoppy]

.. secretly watching Flambards and dreaming that I had stables and a horse...

[hippyhoppy]

..going to Bournemouth on holiday with my broken arm cast and refusing to have my photo taken! then bumping in to Karen Harbour 'cos she was visiting her nan who lived there!...

[codger66]

whiffey 30 foot drop, are you sure that tree hasn't grown 20 feet since you were a kid.

[mumof3angels]

Me and my sister putting out pillowcases on Christmas Eve(we didn't have special sacks lol) before going to bed; waking up on the 1st day of the 6 weeks holidays knowing you had the whole of the summer ahead of you; going to the same place in Cornwall every year and loving every minute of it- aahhh I want to be little again!

[tigerlily11]

My last xmas with my dad.
In 1976.
He had a christmas ritual of getting out the xmas tree lights which he had put away the year before all working, and every year they wouldn't work because one bulb was out. The air used to turn blue sometimes as he made his way through the whole string to find the duff one.
I was up a ladder hanging paper chains I made at school and for some reason playing on the radio was Chigargo,s If You Leave Me Now.
When I hear that song I think of him now and I have that image of looking down and laughing as he tried to get those lights to work.
I miss him so much. The next year he was gone and I sat on my bed all christmas eve with that box of lights.
Sorry that sounds depressing but that image will be with me for ever and it is my favorite.

[hippyhoppy]

Ahh - tigerlily that sounds adorable - so glad that you remember him fondly..

[Postdog]

I'm bloody crying now!!

[rabbitygirl]

The fun and sheer enjoyment of the big garden at my childhood home. Snow, the masses of blossom on the dozen huge pear trees, summers in the paddling pool and playing tennis, seeing the garden come alive with dad's dahlias and bedding, and the crazy pear harvest and eating pears in pies, crumbles, stewed etc., for the next year.