Remember, remember…

September 12, 2006 Brian T. Mullan General Blog 2

Just for a minute, forget everything stressful and read this…………… 
Close your eyes and go back in time…
Before the Internet… 
Before semi-automatics, joyriders and crack….  
Before SEGA or Super Nintendo… even before Pac Man 

Way back…….. 
I’m talking about…… 

Hide and Seek in the park.
The corner shop. 
Hopscotch. Butterscotch. 
Skipping. Handstands. 
Football with an old can. 
Fingerbobs. 

Beano, Dandy, Buster, Twinkle and Dennis the menace.
Roly Poly. Hula Hoops, jumping the stream, building dams. 

The smell of the sun and fresh cut grass.
Bazooka Joe bubble gum. 

An ice cream cone on a warm summer night from the van that plays a tune.

Playing Cats Cradle and Conkers 
Children’s Film Foundation, The Double 
Deckers, Red Hand Gang, The Banana Splitz  
Tomorrow People, Tiswas or Swapshop?,  and ‘Why Don’t You’? 
 – or staying up for Doctor who and being scared of the Daleks.
Black Beauty, The Waltons 
Little House on the Prairie 
Record Breakers, We Are the Champions 
and who can forget “It’s a Knockout”? and Stewart Hall’s laugh?    

When Grange Hill was the best show on TV 
. . . . . ‘Flippin’ ‘eck  Tucker’!

When Emmerdale was called Emmerdale
Farm and was on in the afternoons, not evenings.    

When around the corner seemed far away
and going into town seemed  like going somewhere. 

Earwigs, wasps, stinging nettles and bee stings. 
Sticky fingers. Playing Marbles. Ball bearings. Big ‘uns
and Little ‘uns. Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, and Zorro. 

Climbing trees. Making igloos out of snow banks. 
Walking to school, no matter what the weather. 
Running till you were out of breath, laughing so hard that your stomach hurt.  
Jumping on the bed. Pillow fights. 

Simon Says 

Spinning around on roundabouts,
getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles. 

Being tired from playing….remember that? 

The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team. 
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon. 
Football cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle. 
Choppers and Grifters. 
Eating raw jelly. Orange squash ice pops. Vimto, Jubblies, and Lolly Gobble  Chock Bombs  

Remember when… 
There were two types of trainers – girls and boys, and Dunlop Green Flash 
 – and the only time you wore them at School was for P.E.
(and they were called gym shoes or if you are older – plimsolls)    

You knew everyone in your street – and so did your  parents. 
It wasn’t odd to have two or three “best” friends. 
You didn’t sleep a wink on Christmas eve. 
When nobody owned a pure-bred dog. 
When 25p was decent pocket money 

Curly Wurlys. Space Dust. Toffo’s. 
Top Trumps. Broken Biscuits bought by weight from the bakery
When you’d reach into a muddy gutter for a penny. 
When nearly everyone’s mum was at home when the kids got there.    

When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him or use him to
carry groceries and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it. 

When being sent to the head’s office
was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving pupil at home. 
Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn’t because

of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs etc. 
Parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat and 
some of us are still afraid of them.    

Didn’t that feel good? 

Just to go back and say, Yeah, I remember that 

Remember when…. 

Decisions were made by going “Ip, Dip, Sky Blue, it is Not You” or 

 ”One potato, two potato, three potato, four” 
“Race issue” meant arguing about who ran the fastest. 
Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in Monopoly 
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was germs. 
And the worst thing in your day was having to sit next to one.    

It was unbelievable that ‘British Bulldog 123′ wasn’t an Olympic event. 
Having a weapon in school, meant being caught with a catapult. 
 
Nobody was prettier than Mum. Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better. 
Taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable aspirin. 
Ice cream was considered a basic food group.

Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true. 
Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest protectors.    

If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED.

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  1. Thank`s the little trip down memory lane mate.
    You do know this makes us offically old. Next thing you know well be saying “back in our day” and shit like that. Hand out the rose tinted glasses.
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  2. Thank`s for the trip down memory lane mate. This off course offically makes us old. Next thing we will be talking to kids about “back in our day” and saying how it nevere would have happened back then. Pass out the rose tinted glases.
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