Billy Shafer said: (quoted from post at 22:41:48 08/31/09) Me and my cousins used to ride our bikes on the loading dock at the cotton gin. Tried to see who could get closest to the edge without going over. Had a rich cousin that we did lot like. He had a bike with hand brakes. So one day when he was not looking I cut the cables. He went off the dock into a truck parked nearby. Got my butt beat for that one. But my dad was so busy trying to keep from laughing that the licks didn't hurt.
Grew up in a Welsh mining/iron town in the 50's. Same as lots on here, out all day & only in for food. Lots of street games played. King was my favourite, & "talu pump" (Welsh for count to five).
Played cricket in the summer, either in the street (no cars in those days!) or up the park. Rugby & football (soccer) in the winter. Lots of war games, Germans & British, Japanese(wont let me use the short term) & British, cops & robbers, cowboys & Indians. Girls were always nurses. Don't forget kiss-chase!
Trout fishing in the rivers, coarse fishing in local ponds. Getting maggots from the local skinyard for bait (I was the only one that could stomach gathering them from between the sheepskins!!). Once dug out a wasps nest for the grubs for bait. Was told they were certain for trout if you baked the comb. Put in in the oven when mam was shopping & forgot about it. Could still feel the thrashing I got when she died last september at 93 - we had a good laugh about that in the wake!
Bike rides up into the mountains to swim in the waterfall pools, later with girls - who could show off to them by jumping highest up the waterfall - oh happy days. Beats TV & computers & organised "adventure playgrounds". Feel sorry for the kids today, tho' mine were OK with a country upbringing, son is working on a red & black grouse project this year up on the Durham moors.
God I wish I was young again - anyone got the plans for a time machine? Oh & some monkey glands too please.
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