As a child growing up in the late 80s and 90s we were very much the last generation who could go out to play all day and it be ok. My niece is turning 10 in April and her childhood has/will be very different to mine. At her age we were going out to the park, shops etc on our own. The way the world is I wouldn't let me niece do half the things we did.
Think there are actually less physical assaults nowadays than in the nineties. Shopping parades could be intimidating places then. Now people tend to cause trouble online.
Seeing children playing with a skipping rope (or at least I never do)
Or with elastic jumps ! We spend hours and hours looping elastic bands together to form a huge loop
It was then around two people legs and the others jumped in and out forming twists
People putting litter in bins instead of dropping it
Whistling postman/milkman
Anyone whistling
Gasps and cries at firework displays
Children playing in the street with their new bikes/toys etc at Christmas
Good manners
Sunday best dress for church
Police boxes
Testing the air raid siren
Jamboree Bags
Civil War Cards
School milk
Home made go-carts
Home made bows and arrows!
Kids up trees
Blokes selling sea food in the pub
Bar billiards
After-market head rests for cars
Coathangers replacing broken car aerials
People putting litter in bins instead of dropping it
Whistling postman/milkman
Anyone whistling
Gasps and cries at firework displays
Children playing in the street with their new bikes/toys etc at Christmas
Good manners
Sunday best dress for church
Afternoon Elyan
My kids' pockets are always full of junk from the times where they can't find a bin. It mostly makes me proud, but I'll admit that seeing the contents of a rucksack which fell victim to a half-empty yoghurt pot (including a camera which had been borrowed from me!) unsettled my mojo a bit
The ten year-old lad next door to us was playing with his new remote controlled car out in our little cul-de-sac over Christmas. I haven't seen him with it since we just missed running it over on the way out to Boxing Day football, so maybe he's thought better of the idea!
As for gasps and cries at firework displays, me and my sister took the kids to one when they were little and when a particularly spectacular one went off, one of us said to the other in a 'mocking a former dinner lady' voice "Ooh, ain't that nice!". For some reason it stuck and is often repeated not just for firework displays, but for other explosive events aimed at entertaining too. Slo-mo tram dropping in a ball of flames on The Kabin in Corrie? Windows blowing out of the blazing Vic in Eastenders? "Ooh, ain't that nice!".
Remember the regularly-dispensed warning not to put potted plants on top of the telly in case water dripped into it and blew the thing up? I think flat screen TVs have definitely put that one to bed.
Remember the regularly-dispensed warning not to put potted plants on top of the telly in case water dripped into it and blew the thing up? I think flat screen TVs have definitely put that one to bed.
I had a lamp on top of my last big telly. It was nice, and I'm fleetingly missing the ability to do that now I think of it. Suppose I could always get one of those clamp/clip on type lamps if I wanted.
My parents had allsorts on theirs. Random pieces of tat/ornaments, often on doilies for some reason. I don't miss that in general, but being able to put Christmas themed stuff on there during the festive season was a plus imo.
I had a lamp on top of my last big telly. It was nice, and I'm fleetingly missing the ability to do that now I think of it. Suppose I could always get one of those clamp/clip on type lamps if I wanted.
My parents had allsorts on theirs. Random pieces of tat/ornaments, often on doilies for some reason. I don't miss that in general, but being able to put Christmas themed stuff on there during the festive season was a plus imo.
I suspect a few people had urns on theirs as well.
I remember when DJ's on the radio would tell you who sang the song they just played, these days it's nigh on impossible to find out without checking online, trying to remember a lyric or - if you have the facility and the radio station uses is properly - checking the 'text' section on your car radio.
I always use Shazam to find out what song is playing on t'wireless
Or with elastic jumps ! We spend hours and hours looping elastic bands together to form a huge loop
It was then around two people legs and the others jumped in and out forming twists
We did that
We called it French skipping, though it seems it has several names:
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There was very little snow in Norfolk in the 1990s. Maybe one or two years when we had any meaningful snow in the whole secade.
Been more in the 2010s already than there was in the whole of the nineties.
Think there are actually less physical assaults nowadays than in the nineties. Shopping parades could be intimidating places then. Now people tend to cause trouble online.
And on the line between Norwich and London!
Or with elastic jumps ! We spend hours and hours looping elastic bands together to form a huge loop
It was then around two people legs and the others jumped in and out forming twists
Evening all.
Whistling postman/milkman
Anyone whistling
Gasps and cries at firework displays
Children playing in the street with their new bikes/toys etc at Christmas
Good manners
Sunday best dress for church
Afternoon Elyan
Still happen https://www.gov.uk/government/news/fatal-accident-balham
Positively Darwinian.
'least it's quick.
Police boxes
Testing the air raid siren
Jamboree Bags
Civil War Cards
School milk
Home made go-carts
Home made bows and arrows!
Kids up trees
Blokes selling sea food in the pub
Bar billiards
After-market head rests for cars
Coathangers replacing broken car aerials
Prams
Bulky TV's/PC's
Clean streets
My kids' pockets are always full of junk from the times where they can't find a bin. It mostly makes me proud, but I'll admit that seeing the contents of a rucksack which fell victim to a half-empty yoghurt pot (including a camera which had been borrowed from me!) unsettled my mojo a bit
The ten year-old lad next door to us was playing with his new remote controlled car out in our little cul-de-sac over Christmas. I haven't seen him with it since we just missed running it over on the way out to Boxing Day football, so maybe he's thought better of the idea!
As for gasps and cries at firework displays, me and my sister took the kids to one when they were little and when a particularly spectacular one went off, one of us said to the other in a 'mocking a former dinner lady' voice "Ooh, ain't that nice!". For some reason it stuck and is often repeated not just for firework displays, but for other explosive events aimed at entertaining too. Slo-mo tram dropping in a ball of flames on The Kabin in Corrie? Windows blowing out of the blazing Vic in Eastenders? "Ooh, ain't that nice!".
Remember the regularly-dispensed warning not to put potted plants on top of the telly in case water dripped into it and blew the thing up? I think flat screen TVs have definitely put that one to bed.
Still happens. Free for under 5's. Subsidised for 5-11 year olds.
http://www.coolmilk.com/schools/
Thankfully, no more piano smashing competitions
I had a lamp on top of my last big telly. It was nice, and I'm fleetingly missing the ability to do that now I think of it. Suppose I could always get one of those clamp/clip on type lamps if I wanted.
My parents had allsorts on theirs. Random pieces of tat/ornaments, often on doilies for some reason.
I suspect a few people had urns on theirs as well.
I always use Shazam to find out what song is playing on t'wireless
We did that
We called it French skipping, though it seems it has several names:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_jump_rope