tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-725926446980545183.post8259574798066238474..comments2023-05-03T15:14:23.185+01:00Comments on Rose of Arden: Mad Frogs and English WomenMike and Poppyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14252646448078744534noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-725926446980545183.post-62594285801014439912012-05-28T07:23:51.337+01:002012-05-28T07:23:51.337+01:00BWP.
That is so true. I even recognise myself in ...BWP.<br /><br />That is so true. I even recognise myself in there. Where did it all go wrong - the do gooders I am afraid have a lot to answer for!<br /><br /><br />MikeMike and Poppyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14252646448078744534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-725926446980545183.post-62611001651184860822012-05-27T13:16:55.255+01:002012-05-27T13:16:55.255+01:00Never had a whole Mars Bar until I was Nine
Firs...Never had a whole Mars Bar until I was Nine <br /><br />First we survived being born to mothers that smoked and drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos. They took aspirin and ate blue cheese, raw egg products, ate loads of bacon and other processed meat and tuna from cans, they weren't tested for diabetes or cervical cancer. Then after that trauma our baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead based paints.<br /><br />There were no childproof lids on the medicine bottles, door or cabinets and when we rode our bike we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention the risks we took hitch hiking. As kids we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. We drank water from the garden hose or out of water troughs and not bottled. Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops or McDonalds, KFC, Subway or Nandos. Even though all the shops closed at 06.00pm and didn't open on the weekends , somehow we didn't starve to death.<br />We shared one soft drink with four friends , all drinking out of the bottle, NO ONE actually died from this.<br /><br />We would collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner shop and buy Toffees, Gob Stoppers, Bubble Gum, and bangers to blow up frogs. We ate cupcakes, white bread with real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because “we were always outside playing”<br /><br />We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we returned home before the street lights came on. No one was able to reach us all day, (no mobile phone for the kids then) and we were OK. We spent hours building our own go-carts out of old prams and then ride down hills only to find out we had forgotten the brakes. We built tree-houses and dens and played in river beds with our Dinky toys, We did not have Play Stations, Nintendo Wii, or X-boxes, no video games at all, and no 999 channels on Sky, no video/DVD films, no mobile phones, no personal computers or internet or internet chat rooms. We Had Friends and went outside and found them.<br /><br />We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there was no Lawsuits regarding these accidents.<br />Only girls had pierced ears, We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt.<br />You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns at Easter time<br />We were given air-guns and catapults for our 10th birthday, we rode bikes or walked to our friend's house and knocked at the door or shouted for them.<br />Mum didn't have to work to help dad make the ends meet, we played football and not everybody made the team, those that didn't learned to live with it, getting into the team was based on merit.<br />Our teacher used to hit us with straps, canes, blackboard rubbers and gym shoes and the bully always ruled the playground at school. The idea of a parent bailing us out out if we broke the law was unheard of, they actually sided with the law and battered you when you got home. Our parents didn't invent stupid names for their kids like Kiora, Blade and Ridge or Vinilla. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility and we learned how to deal with it all <br />We had the luck to grow up as kids before lawyers and government regulated our lives <br /><br />bwpAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com