Two names from your childhood that make you sad

[Herbie]

val singleton

or

stig blomqvist

Definately Val

 

[Chromatic]

alexandra bastedo

+1
Doesn't make me sad though, quite uplifting in fact.

 

[ColinJ]

Mum and Dad.

They were alive, loved each other (and me and my sisters), and made the world seem like a safe place that I looked forward to being part of.

All things must pass ...

 

[gary r]

+1
Doesn't make me sad though, quite uplifting in fact.

I'm just sad now! That I couldn't google her as a kid !

 

[Chromatic]

I'm just sad now! That I couldn't google her as a kid !

I take your point

 

[Belly]

Brut, used to get some every christmas in the early to mid seventies. The smell takes me straight back to then.

Me too. Someone bought me a bottle of Brut two years ago because I used to go on about it, but I didn't have the nerve to splash it on. But I did have a sniff and immediately I was sixteen again.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Karen Phillips.

Someone from my class at primary school and the first person I knew who died.

 

[Moodyman]

Walking past a local car mechanic's workshop on the way to school.

The smell of grease and oil. The dark oily patches on the adjacent pavement. It was both foul and arousing at the same time.

His name was Otto Rossi - silver-haired Italian

 

[The Brewer]

Flan flinger

 

[007fair]

Very very stiff Wrangler Jeans

 

[ColinJ]

Karen Phillips.

Someone from my class at primary school and the first person I knew who died.

Someone I knew died from a ruptured brain aneurysm before he even got to sit his A-levels.

 

[Night Train]

Moon landings.

I remember my folks sitting me in front of the tv to watch them.

 

[beanzontoast]

Bleep and Booster

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Someone I knew died from a ruptured brain aneurysm before he even got to sit his A-levels.

That would be a different name from my youth. He jumped to head a football and was dead before he landed.

 

[swee'pea99]

Andrew Craft. He was my best mate at Flora Gardens Junior School. We were inseparable for about two years (which is for ever when you're nine). Then his family moved away, and that was that.