Funny things you clearly remember..

[Campfire]

When I was about 5 my gran & auntie used to have a hairdressers and there was a little cubby hole where you made tea and - wait for it - there was a bucket in which you had to pee! I remember having to take my coat off to do this. I used to say "I tan't tink with my toat on".

Another thing was when I was about 8 we went on a tandem holiday in Lincolnshire, and went to visit the RAF air bases that my Dad was based at during the war. He was a Navigator in Lancaster Bombers! I was fascinated by this. We went also to a brick castle, I think it was Tattenhall or Tattershall and I went up on the roof where you could walk around. My Mum and Dad didn't come up for ages and I thought they'd gone and left me!

 

[ttcycle]

Sitting on a tiny little wooden stool that one of my brothers or dad had made perched on part of the kitchen sink peeling prawns with my dad and trying to get the tail shells off with my teeth - making a massive mess of the tails and turning them into stumps!

I used to have this burgundy coat with little white stickmen all joined up on the bottom and I remember living in this coat day in and day out- was about 2 or 3 at the time. I remember covering my coat in poster paint as I wanted to paint over the white stickmen to give them colours.

In that same coat and sitting on one of those wooden stools, my oldest brother had come back from somewhere as he was away for along time and my mum had made some soup with pork in it, I was eating the pork that my mum had give me and I can remember looking up to see my mumand brother looking down at me.

Earliest memory is from small baby, I had just woken but was so fuzzy I was being picked up and felt the motion of being taken somewhere from where I was and it was brightly lit but my vision was still grey- purely auditory memory of family members saying in my mother tongue ' oh she's not quite awake yet, baby not waking yet' it doesn't translate the same but that is an early memory.

I also have some other memories from when I was very small, some quite odd...nice to think about them again thanks for posting gbb

 

[Cranky]

When I was about 4 or 5 I wandered off up the road, about 200 yards, to the footbridge over the railway ("the iron bridge"). I was wearing a pair of red wellies and this was the distinguishing feature my mum had to use when she called the police in a panic. I was eventually located and brought home by a policeman.

I also, strangely, remember working out how to unbolt my cot for the first time and get out. Mum was completely amazed.

There does seem to be a bit of a theme here....

 

[ttcycle]

HAHAH Cranky that makes me think back to the time when I was about 6 and my mum had taken me out and she was in a large department store looking at leather handbags (she had an obsession with them) and I got bored and wandered off somewhere and went in the lift. I just remember being collected by some person and my mum looking white as a sheet and crying when she saw me.

 

[Fnaar]

Somebody did a poo on the floor of the boy's toilets at primary school. All the boys were herded into the school hall, and told we would stay there till somebody owned up. After about 10 mins a kid called Dominic said he'd done it. He was taken off the headmistress's office and got the cane (This was about 1971 or so). A few weeks later, he claimed he hadn't actually done it, and "owned up" cos he thought someone should. The nutter!

 

[Chamfus Flange]

H He
Li Be B C N O F Ne
Na Mg Al Si P S Cl Ar
K Ca

Had to learn above for Chemistry O Level. Reads like a rhyme.

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[Maizie]

Two I remember.

One, I don't know how old I was, I was with my mum in Liberty's in London. We were in the fabric department. I remember sitting under the tables, on top of which were all the rolls of fabric. And we were there for HOURS. (Mother maintains it was half an hour, tops, but it was nearer a lifetime as far as I was concerned).

Second one, we were at an open evening for my brother's secondary school. It was either the open evening before he started the school, or the open evening in his first year (and he was proudly showing off some work). So I was five or six years old. We were in the woodwork room, and I couldn't see my family, then I saw my dad leaving the room. So I ran up to him and clung to his leg, crying like anything about being abandoned...to discover it wasn't my dad. They were on the other side of the room all along, and I was soon repatriated.

Oh, and a third one. Again, about five or six years old. David Prowse was in our local department store, signing pictures. While dressed in full Darth Vader costume. My brother got an autograph, but then wouldn't come up with me to get one - I had to go on my own. And I remember getting back to my mum and grabbing her hand and her laughing and saying "She's shaking like a leaf!" Hello? I'd just had to go and talk to Darth Vader ON MY OWN, of course I'm terrified...

 

[ChrisKH]

My earliest memory was looking out our front door and seeing water lapping up at the step. I was two. Where I used to live on Canvey, flooding was common and lives were lost in the 1953 East Coast Floods. The last big flood (the one I remember) was in 1965 but it was only a foot or so of water. A lot of the older houses were built on stilts for that reason.

Evacuation drills were common and there were sirens everywhere. I distinctly remember swinging on a dress rail (my nan owned a ladies dress shop) when one of these sirens went off just across the road. Scared me shitless.

 

[swee'pea99]

Four? Five? Something like that. Went for a swim in the sea, and presumably got caught by a current and swept along shore a bit 'cos when I got out there was no sign of my family. Started walking along the beach to try to find them...and walked and walked and walked. Never thought to turn back for some reason. Hours & miles before I was stopped and returned to sender.

 

[GaryA]

Junior school dinners early 70's a toffee-nosed ginger lass from the year above refuses to eat her dinner...the teacher on dinner duty tells her to eat her meat she says; "What meat miss? its all fat"

Why on earth I still remember that I'll never know......

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Bartle
Carling
Hewines
Lewis
Mellor
Panitzke
Penty
Pratt
Qualter
Rivis
Robinson
Rodwell
Scott
Sharp
Smith
Tutill
Wallis
Wild
Winder
Winrow
Wreggit
Wright

... why I can still remember my class register from when I was 11, I don't know.

 

[ChrisKH]

Bartle
Carling
Hewines
Lewis
Mellor
Panitzke
Penty
Pratt
Qualter
Rivis
Robinson
Rodwell
Scott
Sharp
Smith
Tutill
Wallis
Wild
Winder
Winrow
Wreggit
Wright

... why I can still remember my class register from when I was 11, I don't know.

"Orifice, will you stop licking Wreggit, you don't know where she has been....."

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Hagerty F
Hagerty R
Tompkins
Noble
Carrick
Robson
Crapper
Dewhurst
McIntyre
Treadmore
Davitt

 

[ChrisKH]

I know mine started:-

Adams, Caroline
Baxter, Lorrie

I can't remember the rest. Probably because they were both lookers.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

We had no "lookers" in our class. Well, not for me, anyway: they were all boys.