Well its been a while
Since we have been here that is, 3 years 2006/7 and now its 8
I know slightly cheating but who cares
Its Mr B's Birthday soon and thought he could share a few things as a list
Congratulations
Born in the 60’s were you , well only just ?
All this thanks to GOM website , ta its so true
• First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us around for those 9 months.
• They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a tin, liver pate and didn’t get tested for diabetes. All the foods back on the menu out here so must be healthy!
• Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.
• We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets.
• As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags or in a transit van – loose in the back – yippeeeeeee, ouch!
• We drank water from the stream and NOT from a bottle. Then we found the dead sheep in the stream, half way up the hill, toilet phone in use shortly after.
• We shared one fizzie drink with four friends, from one bottle/ never had tins and NO ONE actually died from this. Well it was medicine 70 shillings and some lager stuff
• We ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with sugar in it, but we weren’t overweight because......
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
• We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back for tea , then out again to play till bedtime, only to sneak out again till you got really tired .
• No one knew where we were or what we got up to, well until we got caught that was.
• We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem .
• We did not have Playstations, Nintendo’s, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no DVD’s, no MP3’s no surround sound, no mobile phones, no text messaging, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms........... Bit we had the loudest sterio to play 45s and albums on. Remember them, now who was you favourite, Wizard, Slade, Stones, Floyd or Ian Dury? Mr B was and is still is very varied on this subject, I feel another blog coming along some time ?
• WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
• We fell out of trees,swam in icy cold water, climbed hills and got cut, broken bones and teeth, there were no lawsuits from these accidents .
• We played with worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
• Made up games with big sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not poke out any eyes.
• We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them! There mums always made us a cup of tea or if lucky a tin of beer
• Not everyone made the team. Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Well when you only had 11 people that were in the primary school you actually did make the team and we even won the cup that year
• The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law! And the law were very . very , very BIG people where I came from, sort of eclipse of the sun effect when they stood in the front door . Oh how to learn by a little mistake
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!
mmm , are you one of these people from the 60's, did you learn?
Sorry DC , your's is probably a little bit different as born in the 50's, or is it as so close?
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