What was your childhood like?
Number24
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Since we come from many different backgrounds and countries, I thought it would be fun to know how our childhoods were.
I'll start:
I grew up in a small community with four families. Other than them I had to go more than a mile to meet other people and about three kilometers to the nearest shop. Both my parents were teachers, but they ran had a farm together with my grandparents. There was no kindergarden, so we just spent our days in the area. There were allways old people or farmers around that kept an eye on us, but our days were not organized by adults much of the time. Our time was split between school, playing, work on the farm and family life. I spent a lot of time with my grandparents who had grown up in a way that differed little from the 19th Century. I loved listening to them talking about the past. My mother made the meals and the family allways ate the meals together. Doors were only locked at night for privacy and the keys were left in the ignition of the cars. Most of the adults had known each other all their lives. Generally they were politically liberal and religiously more conservative. I can't remember seeing any adults I knew drinking alcohol. We got a new girl in class when I was 12 who had divorsed parents, which was new to me. I knew no immigrants. I remember the first time a black man spoke to me
) I know much of this is strange now, but in general I think I had a nice childhood.
I'll start:
I grew up in a small community with four families. Other than them I had to go more than a mile to meet other people and about three kilometers to the nearest shop. Both my parents were teachers, but they ran had a farm together with my grandparents. There was no kindergarden, so we just spent our days in the area. There were allways old people or farmers around that kept an eye on us, but our days were not organized by adults much of the time. Our time was split between school, playing, work on the farm and family life. I spent a lot of time with my grandparents who had grown up in a way that differed little from the 19th Century. I loved listening to them talking about the past. My mother made the meals and the family allways ate the meals together. Doors were only locked at night for privacy and the keys were left in the ignition of the cars. Most of the adults had known each other all their lives. Generally they were politically liberal and religiously more conservative. I can't remember seeing any adults I knew drinking alcohol. We got a new girl in class when I was 12 who had divorsed parents, which was new to me. I knew no immigrants. I remember the first time a black man spoke to me
) I know much of this is strange now, but in general I think I had a nice childhood.
Comments
I do recall my first taste of racism at school ,a new boy ,he was black, came to our school,he was the only one then , and I befriended him ,as he stood on his own in the playground ,then I was promptly told by the other boys that I couldn't play with them either 8-) We moved to a house in Kent ,now part of London ,and low and behold Roger Moore lived in a house in the next road ,he was the saint by now.
"OH NO its that bloody family from Brixton again)
I was born in 1971. We had one TV channel and one radio channel, but the TV was in colour. When was your childhood?
Indeed is was - most admirable, AS.
'Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.'- Benny Hill (1924-1992)
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Things were much brighter in College. I got several good Qualifications and I met the Woman I love with whom I'll be having a Child with in several Months.
I'm still working on my life story, talking to my legal people on what I can include.
In answer to number 24 I was born in 59 that's 1959 not 1859 AOS you cheeky sod
and doing first aid duty at various Kent functions .(I think all small boys should join something ,wether its the cubs/scouts ect)
One of my best duties was to be first aider cum life guard at the local lido , this gave me chance to pose in my cozzie and sunglasses
I was one of the few boys at school who had all 3 swimming survival awards(I was 14) and show off to the girls (who probably thought I was some kind of dik-head)
on a visit ,where they let us shoot the new 7.62 SLR (gods own rifle) yep great days as a kid . My dad an avid Millwall fan would take us down the Den on a Saturday ,they always lost
cheer on the Lions enriched with farts and lots of swearing
" I don't listen to hip hop!"
we have an international audience who would love to hear of life int north
My other favourite place to go is Seaton Carew. Loved getting a lemon top, or a 99 with monkey's blood on.
" I don't listen to hip hop!"
'Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.'- Benny Hill (1924-1992)
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-Mr Arlington Beech
Say I was an ugly baby, but after my birth. The doctor smacked my mother !
Well at school always coming first ...................... In the dinner queue.
University of life, the School of hard knocks and the kindergarten of getting the sh*t
Kicked out of me.
'Can my mother come down for the weekend?' So I said: 'Why?' and she said: 'Well, she's been up on the roof two weeks already, as Bob Monkhouse once said.
"Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional." {[]
As a kid I remember being let out of the house in the morning and then not arriving home
Until evening. Spent all day with mates running around the local countryside and swimming
In a few local quarries. These days kids are almost prisoners.
surrounded by countryside, so loads of messing about there and yes we had a few big quarries, which
we'd go swimming in as our town didn't have a swimming pool. I was a big Sci-Fi fan frowing up, so
watched everthing from Dr Who, Star Trek, Space 1999, Thunderbirds etc. Did a bit of Course Fishing &
Karate, and even at a young age, I'd take my Dad's old camera and go taking pictures of the local
landscape.
My big ambition as a Kid was to be a Policeman, but due to the Crazy country of N.Ireland, For me to
Join the RUC, would have meant leaving home and never really seeing my parents or family again except for
fleeting unannounced visits, as the IRA would try and Kill you. as I come from a Catholic Background ( Only in
N.Ireland do you get Catholic or Prodestant Athiests
who is serving at the moment, and talking to him at a wedding I was photographing, I mentioned how great it
was these days that he could be a Policeman, while in my day it would have been too dangerous. He told me of
a recent visit to his parents, in which he got a phone call from the Station to be ready to leave in ten minutes as
they had received information the real IRA or some other group where going to his house.
So I guess I'm a bit naive, thinking everthig was " Normal". I do believe if I'd been living in another part of the UK,
I'd have been like a few others here, probably become a policeman or soldier, did my twenty odd years and then opened
a small business somewhere.
So basically I had a happy childhood, luckily never met Jimmy Saville or any Pedo Priests. Happily spent my days pretending
to be Dr Who running around old scrapyards & Fields .
Other than the weather, it sounds very different from what we have over here. For the last months Our police have actually been armed, due to intel that ISIL supporters are planning to attack Norwegian police or military personel. Many still feel it's unneccesery, including some police. The other day I saw two police officers at the local COOP. They were carrying pistols, but there were no magazines in their pistols.
TP was an Atheist Catholic, I'm a liberal Protestant and God knows what AS believes in ....
Several of us have some sort of military background, but I wonder if there are any pacifists here? I would also like to hear from more people from non-English speaking countries. In short: everyone seems to have something interesting to share. :007)
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'Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.'- Benny Hill (1924-1992)
Well you do know what they say; you have to be able to kill in the first place, to choose not to!
-Mr Arlington Beech
His answer was, .............. "Eventually !"
Please regard all my posts as sad jokes.
Seriously, I'm not a pacifist. Although I was against many of the recent
wars that Britain's politicians seemed so eager to send our troops off
to.