did anyone else have a childhood like this?

[Austin Maxi]

Re: did anyone else have a childhood like this?

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

[Grosh62]

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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

[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.

[darren]

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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.

[Grosh62]

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Weekly comic -- Krazy, Cor!! and Whizzer & Chips, Oh and Monster Fun
Fave crisps -- Tomato Snaps, Seabrook salt and Vinegar
Fave TV show -- Swap Shop, Tizwas, Monthy Python, Rolf Harris show, Goodies
Fave Sweets -- Rainbow Drops, Betabar, Black Jacks and Fruit Salad
Fave drink -- Dandelion & Burdoch, Snowball
Fave toys -- Lego, Arnold Palmer Proshot Golf, Super Striker, Frustration
Fave film -- Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Summer of 42. Grease
Fave Gadget -- Philips Cassette recorder, 1st Calculator and Digital watch
Fave pastime -- Drawing, Singing pop songs, Playing out. Football, cricket.

Other things: being a kid and not really wanting, or feeling any great need, to grow up.

[Wil]

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Weekly comic -- From '72, any of the UK Marvel titles but the odd UK 'funny' too.
Fave crisps -- Ringos
Fave TV show -- Marine Boy, Blake's 7,
Fave Sweets -- Animal Bars, Spangles
Fave drink -- Coke (when it came in a bottle)
Fave toys -- Action man, Zeroids, Evel Kinevel, Flight Deck
Fave film -- Before Star Wars, probably any Ray Harryhausen stop-motion epic.
Fave Gadget -- Loved my first digital watch - Casio F-100
Fave pastime -- Just playing out. Didn't matter at what.

[Fatboy]

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Favourite crisps= Cheese XL
Favourite TV show= Professionals
Fav sweets= Star Bar, Nutty, and most other chocolate bars
Fav drink= Keeko (a drink from northern England) it was similar to Vimto, but much, much nicer. It came in a carton and could be drunk or frozen or ate like an ice pop, perfect on a long hot summer (remember them!), Top Deck shandy.
Fav toy= Bike, Chinese arrows
Fav gadget= Grandstand TV game console thingy, Dragon 32 (computer), tape recorder/player
Fav pastime= Making camps with my mates, lighting fires (not malicious fires, just small camp fires), dossing around with my mates and going off exploring. I really think kids now are missing out on so much when it comes to things like this.

[tonyfinster]

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Weekly comic -- Beano, Krazy, Whizzer n Chips n Krazy (WCK as it was known)
Fave crisps -- Golden wonder cheese n onion, Ringos
Fave TV show -- 6 Million Dollar Man, Sweeney, any Postgate Production, Ivor
Fave Sweets -- Opal fruits, American Cream Soda sherbert, midget gems, tooty frooties
Fave drink -- Sun Charm's Space Special flavour
Fave toy -- Action man, tonka toys,
Fave film -- Star Wars
Fave Gadget -- TV game console. It only had 4 built in games (hockey, tennis, Squash and target shooting) but i loved it dearly.
Fave pastime -- Making dens with my mates in the woods behind my house.

[Richard1978]

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Weekly comic - The Beano
Fave crisps - Pickled Onion Monster Munch
Fave TV show - Too many to choose from
Fave sweets - Skittles or Blackcurrent Chewitts
Fave drink - Ginger Beer or Ale
Fave toy - Scalextric or G-Kart
Fave film - ET
Fave gadget - Either the family Acorn Electron or my first tape recorder
Fave pastime - Using many of the above.

[ann22]

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Weekly comic - Between my sister, cousin and me, we shared Misty, Mandy, Bunty, Jinty, Debbie, Tracy and the little monthly specials called 'libraries'.
Fave crisps - Tayto c&o or Chipsticks
Fave TV show - Hard to decide, Charlies' Angels, The Bionic Woman or Wonder Woman
Fave sweets - Cleves Two and Two bars or Creme Eggs
Fave drink - Limeade from the mineral man who came around on a Sat (In Ireland fizzy drinks are called minerals)
Fave toy - Sindy
Fave film - The Wizard of Oz
Fave gadget - My roller skates, the original ones you wore over your shoes that had a screw underneath to adjust the size, remember them? I even remember the rubbery smell of them. I was also very attached to my Rubik cube for a time.
Fave pastime - Hide and Seek or Tip the Can (in our street, we called it 123 for some reason)

[kazboot]

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Weekly comic - Princess Tina
Fave crisps - Salt n Shake
Fave TV show - Tiswas
Fave sweets - Jamboree Bag
Fave drink - Alpine Pineapple
Fave toy - Barbie
Fave film - The Jungle Book
Fave gadget - My first record player
Fave pastime - Playing street games

[70sscifiboy]

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Weekly comic - Star Wars Weekly, Buster, Whoopee
Favourite crisps - Horror Bags!!! I remember them - loved them too.
Favourite TV show - Six Million Dollar Man, Doctor Who, Whacky Races
Fav sweets - Bazooka Joe bubble gum
Fav drink - Space Pop (Green)
Fav toy - Action Man
Fav film - Star Wars
Fav gadget - The telly
Fav pastime - Bombing about on my Raleigh Chopper (with added card "clacker" on spokes)

[steveffisher]

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Weekly comic - Star Wars Weekly, Nutty
Favourite crisps - Horror Bags
Favourite TV show - UFO, Thunderbirds, Oliver Postgate films
Fav sweets - Sherbert Strawberries
Fav drink - Calypso (juice drink in waxed triangular container with straw)
Fav toy - Speak & Spell or Thomas Salter chemistry set
Fav film - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Fav gadget - Casio CQ-1 Computer Quartz (look it up - it's a beauty!)
Fav pastime - Building 12-foot long go-karts with my mates

[memoman]

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Weekly comic - spin off from the Beano - Plug and anything like Whizzer & chips
Favourite crisps - Fangs, bats and bones.
Favourite TV show - Swap shop and Tiswas
Fav sweets - Pacers, spangles, banjo (Banjo, Banjo, Banjo is brand new. with a light and crispy wafer and a roast nut flavour too)
Fav drink - Quattro (and I seem to remember my nan making up a powdered orange juice maybe by Birds which in later years I was reminded of when tasting Sunny delight)
Fav toy - of course the big 5 - plasacine, lego, scalectrix, horny and meccano AND my skateboard
Fav film - ET and Grease (due to my sisters influence)
Fav gadget - my binatone walkman (couldn't afford sony)
Fav pastime - playing in the street with my mates, going off for hours without my parents worrying where I was.

Other memories from my childhood.
The invention of Video libraries, and owners who didn't care that they were renting out driller killer and the texas chainsaw massacre to 5 ten year old boys!

When Star Video opened they were charging £30-00 membership but strange was the rentals £1 per tape for 2 weeks?

[scooby365]

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Weekly comic - Mickey Mouse, Bullet, Look-in
Favourite crisps - All-Stars, UFO's, Ringo's
Favourite TV show - Tomorrow People
Fav sweets - Spangles, Lucky Dip bags, Cola Cubes, Banana + Shrimps, Toffo's, Galaxy Counters
Fav drink - Tab, Ice Cream Soda, Rodwell's Orange-ade
Fav toy - Bike (oh, the freedom it gave me), Evel Knieval Super Cycle, PowerTrack, BigTrak, Corgi/Dinky cars + garage
Fav film - Aristocats, Grease
Fav gadget - Six Million Dollar Man crystal radio backpack, digital watch with calculator (wore it high up on my arm so that nobody knew I had one)
Fav pastime - playing in the street, playing with my toys, riding my bike, reading comic + books

Other memories from my childhood.
Delivering milk from an early age, buying a ZX81 and spending all day typing in BASIC code, not getting a ZX Spectrum for Christmas, getting a ZX Spectrum for my birthday