did anyone else have a childhood like this?

[darren]

Re: did anyone else have a childhood like this?

fave film superman
fave comics beano,dandy.
fave drink cremola foam
fave toy all my star wars toys
fave tv dungeons and dragons,grange hill,willow the wisp,he man,she ra etc etc..
fave sweets opal fruits sherbert dip cola bottles. aero etc etc..
fave pastime hanging out with me mates,building tree huts,playing footie till late.getting mucked up.playing computer games etc etc..
fave crisps salt and shake,monster much etc..

jumping over the local river not very wide.
sometimes we fell in.great fun.

[darren]

Re: did anyone else have a childhood like this?

wiishing i could be a kid forever.
thinking id never get older and never thought i would.
i miss those days so much.

[Grosh62]

Re: did anyone else have a childhood like this?

wiishing i could be a kid forever.
thinking id never get older and never thought i would.
i miss those days so much.

Darren You should dig out a song by Tom Robinson called 1967 its brilliant and nostalgic and sad and poignant and not bad and basically sums up your last statement

[Austin Maxi]

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My go.... (all of this is based on the mid-'80s)

Weekly Comic - Look-In, then Eagle & Tiger (I think it was fortnightly, but there you go)
Fave Crisps - Farmer Browns, or Football Crazys
Fave TV Show - Stig Of The Dump (1981), Swap Shop, Open All Hours
Fave Sweets - Texan Chew Bar, Sherbet Fountain
Fave Drink - Orange squash
Fave toys - Corgi Ultrasonic Wrecker, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Matchbox Powertrack
Fave Film - Gregory's Girl
Fave Gadget - Tomytronic 3D Game
Fave Pastime - Drawing, playing out, cycling, friends and me soaking each other with water pistols

[davidthomas27]

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Weekly comic - Buster, The Beano, Look-in.
Fav crisps - Monster Munch (Sizzling Bacon flavour).
Fav TV - The A-Team, Thundercats, Danger Mouse, Thunderbirds.
Fav sweets - Milky Way, Animal Bar
Fav drink - Um Bongo.
Fav toy - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Ghostbusters, Thunderbirds models & Tracy Island.
Fav film - Ghostbusters, Gremlins.
Fav gadget - Kisho tape recorder (later Sega Mega Drive)
Fav pastime - Drawing cartoon characters, making cardboard models.
Other memories - My mum lifting me up to see the eels in the pie and mash shop.

Just been reminded of my fave pastime (thanks Austin).

[Megawitch]

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Weekly comic - Bunty
Fav crisps - Salt and shake
Fav TV prog - Dr Who (The original!)
Fav sweets 1p Arrow Bar
Fav drink - Orangeade
Fav toy - can't remember (dolls mostly)
Fav film - The Parent Trap (original with Hayley Mills)
Fav pastime - play acting, singing and dancing
Spending every day all day of the school summer holidays in the park, T shirt and shorts with a snake belt, plastic sandals and a packed lunch in a 'duffle' bag. Ate the lunch by 10.30am but didn't go home till tea time anyway. Paddled, climbed trees, played on the slide and swings, played hide and seek, and chase and then did it all over again.

[Powdered toast man]

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Weekly comic- Beano
Fav crisps- picked onion Monster Munch
Fav TV prog- Round the bend/Garfield and friends
Fav sweets- lemon sherbet Dib-dabs
Fav drink- Lilt
Fav toy- my Playskool Bigfoot monster truck
Fav film- Ghostbusters
Fav pastime- bike rides, rugby, messing about on the local BMX track(which was right next to the city cemetery), postman's knock(ringing bells and running like hell), scalextric, drawing and Lego Technic on wet days, putting floor polish on the big slide in the playground and seeing who could go the fastest, making trumpets out of hosepipe, a funnel and a rubber tap adaptor for the mouthpiece. My friends and me using our school on weekends as an obstacle course for our bikes. The school was on lots of different levels with lots of ramps and stairs to tackle until a security man with a big dog caught us on a Sunday afternoon and chased us away.

[onthebusesfan]

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My childhood memorys from the 1990s
I was born when the teletubbies started
freddo frog being 5p not 20p
toybox magazine
vanilla coke
101 Dalmatians
i had all of the bubblebaths from children tv shows i had mr plod postman pat mickey mouse womble teletubbies big bird
Happy days

[Marine Boy]

Re: did anyone else have a childhood like this?

My childhood memorys from the 1990s
I was born when the teletubbies started
freddo frog being 5p not 20p
toybox magazine
vanilla coke
101 Dalmatians
i had all of the bubblebaths from children tv shows i had mr plod postman pat mickey mouse womble teletubbies big bird
Happy days

I always forget you are one of our younger members, onthebuses

TV Prog.... Would have to be Doctor Who............ oh and Marine Boy of course.
Sweets..... The ones that came in Jamboree bags.
Drink........ Top Deck Shandy
Toy.......... Etch-a-sketch
Pastimes....I cycled a lot; we had a large pond opposite, so pond dipping; and astronomy. One of my best friends actually
had an observatory in his garden!

[bakermuk]

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Weekly comic - Jackpot
Favourite crisps - Rancheros
Favourite TV show - Swap shop
Fav sweets - Texan Bars, Cola Cubes, Fruit Salads
Fav drink - Cresta, lemonade shandy
Fav toy - Superflight deck, Super Striker, Lima/Hornby Train set, scalextric, Top Trumps
Fav film - Star Wars
Fav gadget - Casio MG770 Invaders Calculator
Fav pastime - Riding my bike

Ah the memories!

[bakermuk]

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My wifes are:

Weekly comic - Used to read sisters Jackie
Favourite crisps - Snaps (Cheese)
Favourite TV show - Mr Benn
Fav sweets - Spangles and Tuttie Fruities
Fav drink - Tizer
Fav toy - of course the big 5 - Stylophone, Etch a Sketch
Fav film - Return to Witch Mountain (??!?!)
Fav gadget - Transistor radio
Fav pastime - Reading books, riding horses

[Finnthedude]

Re: did anyone else have a childhood like this?

Weekly comic - 2000AD, Cheeky.

Favourite crisps - Wotsits.

Favourite TV show - Tiswas.

Fav sweets - Opal Fruits.

Fav drink - Dandelion and Burdock from the pop van.

Fav toy - Action Man before he got gay and pacifist, Scalextric, Evel Knievel.

Fav film - Jason and the Argonauts.

Fav gadget - Digital watch that played 11 tunes. It was made by a company called Shivas and was very slim compared to other watches at the time.

Fav pastime - playing footy or kerby.

Cheers, Finnthedude.

[Retrogames]

Re: did anyone else have a childhood like this?

Comic- Beano and Dandy (I preferred the Beano)
Crisps- bacon flavoured chipsticks
TV- Saturday Superstore
Sweets- Pink Panther chocolate and Pacers
Drink- Quatro
Toy- Star Wars
Film- Tron
Gadget- micro cassette recorder plus Casio VL-Tone
Pastime- Vic 20/Commodore 64 gaming, and in the summer endless rides on the zip wire in our garden... until I sneezed on take-off and fell the 15ft and got banned by mum!

[Beach Life]

Re: did anyone else have a childhood like this?

Comic: My Guy
Crisps: Monster Munch
TV: Black Beauty, Bagpuss, The Flumps and Mr Men
Sweets: Space Dust (orange I think), Cola sweets, Golden Nuggets in a bag, Refreshers on a stick (I think) and Banjo (by Mars) still remember the Jingle -
Banjo, Banjo the one for me and you, light and crispy wafer and roast nut flavour too!
Drink: Lilt, Orangeade, Fanta and Coca Cola
Toy: Pacman
Film: Wizard of Oz
Gadget: Walkman
Pastime: Playing with my toys/seeing friends/going to local shop hiring VHS tapes for about 50p/£1. Remember hiring Friday 13th, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Class of 1984 in particular (think some were pirate copies). Can't watch horror films now though, was braver back then!

ps great thread!

[80sChav]

Re: did anyone else have a childhood like this?

Comic: I was'nt into Comics - I hope it's ok i'll sawp that one for a Footy Mag - which was 2 from either Match, Shoot or 90 Minutes

Crisps : Monster Munch

TV: Grange hill or anything good like Going Live, The 8:15 from Manchester etc

Sweets: I never really like Sweets that much, never have but i'll say Tick Tacks as my fave from being young

Drink: Lilt

Toy: My Starsky aand Hutch Toy Car

Film: Clockwise

Gadget: Video Player

Pastime: Just hanging out with my best friend of my first 8 years of life knowing him, though we drifted apart sadly.

80sChav