Raw Dykes Posted 10 April 2012 Posted 10 April 2012 Are you joking? I'm don't think it's meant to be a poem... Whoosh, or a more acceptable equivalent to the same effect.
FoxesAreBlue Posted 10 April 2012 Posted 10 April 2012 The greatest sport ever invented... Kerbie Going round to the cornfields and making dens. Having watched Cool Runnings in year 5 at school, everybody decided that we were going to become Olympic bobsledders and duly spent that summer sounding around the streets on our arses on skateboards! Waterfights, good god the water fights seemed epic. Once about 50 mates from school all came around to our streets and we had a massive round robin bike race tournament - that was brilliant.
FoxyPV Posted 10 April 2012 Posted 10 April 2012 Are you joking? I'm don't think it's meant to be a poem...
James. Posted 10 April 2012 Posted 10 April 2012 Trying to figure out if I'd rather be one of the Frog brothers from The Lost Boys or Data from The Goonies.
Haydos Posted 10 April 2012 Posted 10 April 2012 The greatest sport ever invented... Kerbie Going round to the cornfields and making dens. Waterfights, good god the water fights seemed epic. Don't forget Wembley Doubles/Singles and heads and volleys! I had a sick 2 storey den in a tree next to my house. Waterfights in the summer were definitely epic. Making massively unsafe bike jumps in the nearby quarry. Playing 2v2 on-your-knees handball on my mates massive upstairs landing. Laser tag with these crappy toys r us laser guns/chest plates. Recreating the latest WWF matches. Being a kid was ****ing awesome.
Trav Le Bleu Posted 10 April 2012 Posted 10 April 2012 Playing "dog football" - which wasn't as cruel as it sounds. It was playing football on all fours! We also used to play "bike gladiators" which was a kind of bike sumo where you tried to make your opponent either put their feet down our go outside the road markings (our street had large concrete slads divided by tarmac strips, so beloved of council estates) Making Hotwheels/Matchbox tracks all the way down the stairs and putting a ramp at the bottom and seeing which of our many cars would go the furthest. Sliding down the stairs on your front, head-first. Jumping down the stairs and seeing how many steps you could clear. My brother and I could jump down the stairs from 2-3 steps from the top (I seem to recall he held the record though, something like 11 or 12 steps). Needless to say, we got into trouble if mum or dad caught us doing this.
Zingari Posted 10 April 2012 Posted 10 April 2012 Jumping off the bridge in Abbey Park into the river and walking across the weir trying not to slide in
FoxesAreBlue Posted 10 April 2012 Posted 10 April 2012 Don't forget Wembley Doubles/Singles and heads and volleys! I had a sick 2 storey den in a tree next to my house. Waterfights in the summer were definitely epic. Making massively unsafe bike jumps in the nearby quarry. Playing 2v2 on-your-knees handball on my mates massive upstairs landing. Laser tag with these crappy toys r us laser guns/chest plates. Recreating the latest WWF matches. Being a kid was ****ing awesome. Ahhhh yeah all of these, we called wembey doubles "cuppies" though. God I miss being a kid. It's my birthday today and this is making me feel even older
FoxesAreBlue Posted 10 April 2012 Posted 10 April 2012 Oh oh oh !! I've just remembered! When we were in the 4+ at Primary School we went to the park next to my house and planted a load of trees and bushes and stuff. A few years later, they had obviously grown and became two rival Dens, mine was called the 'Mon Choo Choo' den (**** knows :-/) and the other was called the 'Zulu' den. There was another 3rd den, but I can't remember the name, that one the one that we all had tribal wars over. I also buried my most precious treasure in the Mon Choo Choo, a matchbox Ferrari F40. Never saw it again! Also, one of the kids from school bumped off once (in primary school!!!) and hid in the hole we had dug in the Mon Choo Choo too.
ozleicester Posted 11 April 2012 Posted 11 April 2012 8am Sunday morning, ABC radio. Sitting with my dad and listening to match results. Never a sound made until they had finished the "conference" scores (i cant remember if thats what they were called then?). Then my brother and i would go to the 1st division tables that we had on the back of the door (thank you Shoot magazine) and we would adjust the tables to reflect the results. The morning was spent playing wembley in the backyard or the finishing the current subbuteo fixtures. A small lunch then off to watch dad play in the local amateur league, at one point we had at least one kid from every player on the team, which amounted to a signifcant crowd in that league, we would stand behind the goal and sing...abuse the referee and on one or two occasions... "invade" the pitch. Bloody hooligans spoiling it for everybody
Raw Dykes Posted 11 April 2012 Posted 11 April 2012 Jumping down the stairs and seeing how many steps you could clear. My brother and I could jump down the stairs from 2-3 steps from the top (I seem to recall he held the record though, something like 11 or 12 steps). Needless to say, we got into trouble if mum or dad caught us doing this. My dad caught me and my brother playing this before school one day. He heard me shouting "Ten stairs!" and he burst through the kitchen door. I could tell he was going to go mental. I'm still proud of my quick thinking to this day. When he asked if I'd jumped down ten stairs, I said yes, pointed to the vertical side of the bottom stair and called that "One", then pointed at the horizontal side of the same stair and called it "Two", I called the vertical side of the second stair three, and so on. My dad bought it. Sucker.
Saxondale Posted 11 April 2012 Posted 11 April 2012 5 hour long football games on the street. Riding bikes everywhere, all the time. In the summer, deliberately missing the school bus so we could walk the 4 mile back route in the sunshine - just for a laugh. Arrived at school about 11 o' clock with a perfectly feasible excuse.
Haydos Posted 11 April 2012 Posted 11 April 2012 My Leicester City team got wreaked I had our team with the Walkers logo (on the red wave, not with the crisp)....And Newcastle for some reason.
21st Century Fox Posted 11 April 2012 Posted 11 April 2012 Not so much Childhood but more early teens... Saturday morning Gazetta Football followed by Sunday lunchtime match. Best weekends ever! How I miss watching James Richardson reading the papers with a random bit of cake.
Webbo Posted 11 April 2012 Posted 11 April 2012 My Leicester City team got wreaked I always used to kneel on my men, so much so that most of them were just feet and ankles. I thought about making them a paralympic team.
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