Kath from Blackburn
Now I'm a grown up (physically, anyway) - I'm glad I don't HAVE to eat my peas anymore. They are NOT "just like green sweetcorn", dad!
Tino
Accept all the injustices and hypocrises that adults used to throw at you.
Janice Holden
Having to wear your black school pumps during the summer hols, cos they still fit you and your mum could'nt afford nowt else (cos we was poor)
John
Acting stupid
Christine
Get away with doing something naughty by doing a massive cheesy grin and holding your hands behind your back so you look angelic!
Jessica
Scratch your bum in public
Kelly
Make yourself dizzy by spinning around
Joe
Garden hopping
Andy
Scrumping and taking back Deposit bottles for 5p
Brakes
Play bike tig
Lizzie
Dress up in clothes too big for us
Mike
After any football cup final, go in the street with your mates and 're-play' the final with them, always bagsying that you are on the winning team.
Eat kayli, (rainbow crystals!) by dipping your finger in it then sucking.
Pop tar-bubbles in the street on a hot day.
Go to Tommy Ball's with a pair of scissors, (times were 'ard)
Go to the chippy and ask for the scraps.(see above)
Check for money in any furniture given for a bonfire, (see if mum wanted said piece of furniture first because it was better than ours)(also see above)
Make stilts out of syrup tins and string.
Use two tins and a long piece of string to make a telephone.
Make a go-kart and race your mates down the street, (uncomfortable on cobbles).
On a freezing cold night, pour loads of water on the street outside your house, so that you can have a slide in the morning.
Slide down grassy hills on pieces of cardboard
Valerie Ford
Talk like a pirate less often!
Quickly hide the toy from your Happy Meal least your grandchild gets it.
Desist from performing "Knees Up Mother Brown", except under water.
Sing in public.
Stand on your hands (who am I kidding!)
Mal Walker
After watching a cowboy movie run along the street patting your behind to make a galloping noise.
Pouchy
make a makeshift rope swing from a tree and nearly break yer back when it snaps haha
Mitieman
Knock on people's doors then run away
Mr E A Sweet
Make mud pies and ride bike through puddles
Steve Liptrot
collect car numbers
David Woodcock
Stick a folded fag packet in your bike wheel to make it sound like a motorbike.
Nichola
Spitting competitions using refreshers so you knew who had spit the farthest
Bev
Collect rose petals in jars of water to make perfume.
Lee Cumpsty
Making ramps as high as you can by nicking peoples back gates then jumping them as high as you can
Bob
Having a whip round for a new football after the one you had popped
Donna Owen
Spend hours looking for pram wheels to make a bogey[go-cart)
