Nostalgia - Back in the day...

oh nooooo I wasn't that much of a tomboy Mind you I really wasn't in to dolls and prams either

 

Nah mate, I never got that on the chopper, I can mind putting beer mats in the spokes of an earlier bike though so it sounded like a motor bike when you pedalled

 

I don't remember him doing anything like that. He was actually tiny for his age and turned into a big lankey drip I remember every other week he needed new trousers cause he wore holes in the knees! Seemed like he was always getting something

 

ofgs

 

I had that

 

i have been tryin to find my and this is the closest, it had a red seat and black handels

 

Boy in my street had a Grifter, used to queue up to get a shot on it

 

I just realized it wasn't a Grifter my brother had it was a Tomahawk I looked at the picture and thought hang on I don't actually remember that Being a girl the Tomahawk was easier


* that looks so ancient now but I remember it being like that

 

This was the one we all wanted, made all sorts of siren noises etc. Again, one spoilt * in our street had one

 

I had that tae , was my pride n joy lol

 

I stayed directly across the road from Paradise, and I remember all the mums bringing down ice poles and ice cubes for all the children playing in the street. It seemed every family had at least 3/4 children so the street was full of us playing Kerby; Kick the Can; Kiss Catch Torture etc. We all had bikes and I played football, everyday, sometimes all day. Where I stay now there's hardly any children out playing. They don't know what they're missing

 

kerby
clackers
5 stones , remember it as chuckies

fekkin welling up here !

 

50 years old this week I heard on the radio the other day

 

do all the house up for Halloween but no kids in the street , thinking of not bothering this year .

 

on the nostalgia thing , 2 things I never got that rankles a wee bit now and again ,

I have never in my life owned a bike , loans never took the place of having my own .
Wrangler denim jacket , I coveted them since the first day I ever saw one .. never got one .

As im growing old disgracefully if ever an aul bassa cycles by you on a chopper bike with a wrangler jacket on , just mibby ..

 

Lee jeans and a white Sonneti wooly jumper

Edit: did a quick search and this is the exact one I had!!! 69p tesco green hair gel, slapped to * on my napper and I was good to go