i feel so old or am i fussing to much

i was 3 back then but when i was growing up our house backed onto a wood with a stream so spent most of my younger days down there and looking for wood and pram wheels to make are own go karts ;D

 

I was -2 then so I really don't want to think what my parents were up to before they had me!

 

We used to make Dens and tunnels in a wheat field, me and my big brother out for the afternoon - I was 4 and he was the responsible one - 6. Got t0 be right because we moved when I was 4 1/2.

 

Bows and arrows great, i remember my cousin throwing a spear at another mate as we ran down the hill, it hit him in the ear, he went down blood gushing we all shouted youve killed im. How close was that we know now : . We played in the corn barns on top of the hills and used to pick up lenghts of pipe and huge rats used to run out and along the rafters we chucked stones and what ever we could find at em.God we were little orrers . But we didnt arf have some fun. No nintendos, or naff then lol.

 

We piled up about 10ft of hay under a tree once and were doing acrobatic dives off the tree into out hay pile until someone set it on fire and we couldn't put it out. 2 fire engines - oops. Zed aged about 12.

Me any my mates set off at 4am to cycle from Lincoln to Skegness when we were 13 - 40 miles each way. No fuss from the parents.

 

got a m8 with a scar just under his eye (spear) I've got a scar on my food plastic burn from throwing plastic on fire at each other
then there was peg guns they were cool they would take an eye out



peg on the left side industrial strength lacky band nail or hook the other end the metal bit off a peg on the lacky to put on to peg at wobbly bit on peg peg is the trigger the rest as they say is a and e

 

am 44 in aug and am making the most of my 2 younger boys 8 and especially the 3 year old , because it will not be long till i loss their child hood , and when its gone its gone , they then turn in to KEV AND PERRY lol owen nw in 76 i was 8 and our local resesvoir dryed up and wee played in the bottom of it owen nw :- :

 

Another old fart here. In 76 I was working for Volkswagen and already owned my bay :-[

I remember it got so hot during the day that the camper would sink into the tarmac of the road where it was parked.

By 6pm the stuff had set again which made it difficult to pull away. Then had to drive for a few hundred yards with lumps of road still attached to the tyres. They felt like they were square and the noise had to be heard to be belived.

 

I was not born in 76

 

I was 5.... Just started school

 

vintage days 8)

 

I was 4 out and about on my own everybody knew everybody else and looked out for them, I lived and still live in a Cornish village, but second home owners have changed the whole feel and i never let my kids out without me no they are 19 and 20...now I worry cos they go out on the booze...I'm left home to worry and imagine them drunk in a ditch somewhere or they are out driving so I imagine them crashing ................oh and they borrow my car biggest worry of all ;D

kids gotta let em go and hope you've raised them properly, so far mine have been fine...touches wood