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What did you love doing as a kid that you just can't get away with doing as an adult or that you've just lost the wow feeling if you do it now?

I miss bmxing, hanging out with cool older kids (even though they hated it but I loved it), winning goldfish in bags at the local fair, playing kiss chase (although I still like this), getting really excited by spending my 25p pocket money in the sweet shop, being allowed to sit on the back of the sofa when all the family came over, Christmas decorations ie proper tinsel and glass boubols that don't match (think 1970's), being able to eat bread, proper bacon and egg butties, proper cuddles sitting on your mums lap when you've hurt yourself and proper crying, wearing my dads clothes, digging for worms, going on caravan holidays where I got more excited about traveling in the car in my sleeping bag than the actual holiday, riding the bus with my gran, and getting into bed with my mum and dad on a sunday morning, going fruit picking in the summer- smuggling in sugar and eating my body weight in strawberries and being allowed to lay in on a saturday!

I'm sure theres loads more.

Anyone else?

xxx

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Non-wow: getting some new foreign stamps and looking up on the atlas where they'd come from (GoogleEarth would've been great!); tomato ketchup sandwiches; the Cadbury's selection in my stocking at Christmas; James Bond films; seeing and hearing a Ferrari; foreign porn mags from a school mate whose dad ran a dirty book shop; watching Southend United play; fishing tackle; older women

Can't get away with: dripping on toast; schoolgirls; speedos; late night snogs in dark alleys.

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That's an interesting one :lol:

I miss chewing liquorice roots and smoking cinnamon sticks behind the bike shed ! Also playing street games ( as most people didn't have TVs).

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I miss my grandad playing music on a Saturday morning (only time my tv obsessed gran would let him) and dancing round the living room to crazy days of summer, rambling rose, on the street where you live etc

Then going into town to the Buttery for a cup of tea and a buttery, a visit to the pet shop followed by a trip to the arcade, a poke o sweets and some smokies or a bridie for tea.

Being a sensible parent I do miss going out and not knowing where I'd end up the next morning. That sense of adventure and danger. And not caring if I was too trashed to work the next day.

I miss smoking.

I miss my 21 year old body. Could it come back please?

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I miss your 21-year-old body as well............. :o

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Unfortunately I missED your 21 year old body (well, probably).

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Having lots of energy and;
Climbing trees
Running fast
Swimming fast
Generally being agile

also

Being able to eat what I wanted, as much as I wanted (particularly chocolate) and not having to worry about weight or health issues

Knowing I had most of my life ahead of me.....

..... now look what you did, you got me all depressed now :unsure:

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Oh how I long for the days of my youth......

Stealing my best friends girl and meeting with her in the back alley (Her parents forbid her from seeing me) on my bike and her riding away with me sitting on the handlebars. I can almost smell her freshly washed hair now. Climbing the tree outside her house and sneaking into her bedroom window on summer nights. Late night poker games with my mates. Endless diet Pepsi's and crisps and mums Hasty Pudding....

ah, I could go on forever

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So you played poker with your mates...

..... and you played "Poke 'er" with your girlfriend? :huh:

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There's a difference:

The first was a "ring game" and the second was a "fast play"

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OMG I could've wrote that word for word! Yep sobbing into my glass now thanks!

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I loved climbing trees.I remember falling out of one and winding myself-one of those flashback moments which will stay with me forever.
Going fishing under the jetty and hanging on when small craft tied up and bumped off the sleepers round the pier(??)- a handline and some silverpaper on the hook used to do the trick!
Knowing my dragonmom and inglorious stepfather were away on business and I could talk M the lady who looked after me into staying up late and opening the doors etc to hear the ocean.Being sent to (I was led to believe)my very stern Scottish Grandmother while my mom was 'resting' and sitting with her while she read Beatrix Potter and Louisa M Alcott to me and my sister.She had camphor in her closets.No skeletons just camphor.
They were the best of times............

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Also, playing down by the river and making mud pies, which we used to throw up onto the bridge above when we heard anyone crossing it.

Playing in the overgrown grass in the field next to our house and making rooms and corridors in it as it was taller than us, we spent hours doing this, only to get it ruined by someone taking a dump in one of our "rooms" (toilet paper and all!).

Rope swings from massive trees on the top of (what seemed like) massive hills and that huge rush of adrenaline when you had your go. (Laughing like a drain when someone fell off!)

Ahhhh good times (well nearly).

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I miss being carefree, responsible, getting away with saying inopportune things at the wrong time, embarassing my parents, laughing at peoples misfortunes........hang on.........I still do all of that........Happy Days!

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Interesting thread, with good memories from all the posters so far.

I have vivid (but probably time-warped) memories of school summer holidays in which it was always sunny, you could do what you want (because mum didn't want you around the house all day 'getting under her feet'), and stay out as long as you liked.

These days, no responsible parent would let two or three eight-year-old boys cycle down to the reservoir, or the park, or whatever, but back then we did nothing else. Anything that required parental involvement was scorned ("Can't you amuse yourselves?").

I happen to think that life back then was a superb proving ground for adult life later.......

Gone forever, I imagine.