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Re: A Single Moment in Time - A Personal Childhood Memory

Post by Lambert » Wed Dec 13, 2017 12:33 am

For some reason this is my clearest memory from my childhood: I was 6 and quite ill with chest problems, and my parents had bought a vaporizer to help me breathe. It was like a metal lamp with an opening on the front where you put the tealight, and a small dish on the top for the liquid. On each side of main opening were two small vertical slits. I remember lying in my bedroom in the dark, listening to the muffled sound of the TV coming from downstairs as I watched the light from the slits dancing on the wall, the room filled with the strangely pleasant smell of the vaporizer. Even though my parents were downstairs in another room I remember feeling a sense of comfort knowing they were there. It was probably the last time I ever felt something like that. Such is life :smilin:

Re: A Single Moment in Time - A Personal Childhood Memory

Post by Stooo » Tue Dec 12, 2017 10:34 pm

Remember the stuff about negative ions? It's pissing down outside and quite warm. Big breaths...

Re: A Single Moment in Time - A Personal Childhood Memory

Post by McAz » Mon Dec 11, 2017 10:09 pm

Big Fat Frosty wrote:if this thread had sound
it would be one of the hovis adverts
ffs..
:more beer:


Hovis?!!! Who the fuck could afford Hovis? Posh geordie bastard! :grrrrr:

Re: A Single Moment in Time - A Personal Childhood Memory

Post by Big Fat Frosty » Mon Dec 11, 2017 10:07 pm

if this thread had sound
it would be one of the hovis adverts
ffs..
:more beer:

Re: A Single Moment in Time - A Personal Childhood Memory

Post by Stooo » Mon Dec 11, 2017 10:02 pm

Trapper John wrote:Does anyone remember their dad putting cotton thread around your wobbly first teeth? always promising you that he wouldn't tug it until you were ready, then doing the exact opposite......and you fell for it every time. :oops:


Yeah, I remember.

The ones that followed are covered with tartar and tobacco residue now. :shake head:

Re: A Single Moment in Time - A Personal Childhood Memory

Post by Guest » Mon Dec 11, 2017 10:02 pm

no seatbelts in the back of cars so you'd end up chinning the seat in front if the brakes went on sharpish.

Re: A Single Moment in Time - A Personal Childhood Memory

Post by Stooo » Mon Dec 11, 2017 10:00 pm

Trapper John wrote:
McAz wrote: Grazes, cuts, running into lamposts etc meant nothing to that generation unless you ripped your clothes in the process. :laughing:


Yeah tell me about it. I remember slipping over in the school playground and taking the skin off my knees, making a couple of holes in my trousers in the process. Did I get an earful when I got home, always ending with 'money doesn't grow on trees you know' by which you knew you'd be spending the rest of the term with patches on the knees of the trousers.

As far as your injuries were concerned you either got a warm wet flannel to dab them with or if you'd made a big enough fuss, a lump of cotton wool with some TCP on it. :laughing:


TCP? It stung like a bastard :ooer:

Re: A Single Moment in Time - A Personal Childhood Memory

Post by Nosyguest » Mon Dec 11, 2017 9:24 pm

Trapper John wrote:Does anyone remember their dad putting cotton thread around your wobbly first teeth? always promising you that he wouldn't tug it until you were ready, then doing the exact opposite......and you fell for it every time. :oops:


And tying it to the door knob of an open door and then slamming it? :doomed:

Re: A Single Moment in Time - A Personal Childhood Memory

Post by Gabby » Mon Dec 11, 2017 1:47 pm

Trapper John wrote:Does anyone remember their dad putting cotton thread around your wobbly first teeth? always promising you that he wouldn't tug it until you were ready, then doing the exact opposite......and you fell for it every time. :oops:


NO!! :yikes: .... I'd have rang Childline! :kinell:

Re: A Single Moment in Time - A Personal Childhood Memory

Post by McAz » Mon Dec 11, 2017 1:10 pm

Trapper John wrote:
McAz wrote: Grazes, cuts, running into lamposts etc meant nothing to that generation unless you ripped your clothes in the process. :laughing:


Yeah tell me about it. I remember slipping over in the school playground and taking the skin off my knees, making a couple of holes in my trousers in the process. Did I get an earful when I got home, always ending with 'money doesn't grow on trees you know' by which you knew you'd be spending the rest of the term with patches on the knees of the trousers.

As far as your injuries were concerned you either got a warm wet flannel to dab them with or if you'd made a big enough fuss, a lump of cotton wool with some TCP on it. :laughing:

TCP? Clearly you were loved. I got neat Iodine - an act of pure spite which stung like merry hell. Soon learned to self medicate as in dock leaves on stinging nettle rashes. I'm revealing too much here, aren't I? :laughing:

Re: A Single Moment in Time - A Personal Childhood Memory

Post by Trapper John » Mon Dec 11, 2017 8:50 am

Does anyone remember their dad putting cotton thread around your wobbly first teeth? always promising you that he wouldn't tug it until you were ready, then doing the exact opposite......and you fell for it every time. :oops:

Re: A Single Moment in Time - A Personal Childhood Memory

Post by Trapper John » Mon Dec 11, 2017 8:47 am

That brings me to school uniforms, why did your mum always have to buy the things 3 sizes too big? ...... I mean on reflection you were never going to 'grow into them' because they'd be a mess of rags and patches halfway through the year. Mind you I suppose the one good thing about having 6in turn ups on you trousers, it provided your mum with plenty of repair material.

Re: A Single Moment in Time - A Personal Childhood Memory

Post by Trapper John » Mon Dec 11, 2017 8:39 am

McAz wrote: Grazes, cuts, running into lamposts etc meant nothing to that generation unless you ripped your clothes in the process. :laughing:


Yeah tell me about it. I remember slipping over in the school playground and taking the skin off my knees, making a couple of holes in my trousers in the process. Did I get an earful when I got home, always ending with 'money doesn't grow on trees you know' by which you knew you'd be spending the rest of the term with patches on the knees of the trousers.

As far as your injuries were concerned you either got a warm wet flannel to dab them with or if you'd made a big enough fuss, a lump of cotton wool with some TCP on it. :laughing:

Re: A Single Moment in Time - A Personal Childhood Memory

Post by Vam » Mon Dec 11, 2017 8:09 am

I love this thread :canny:

Re: A Single Moment in Time - A Personal Childhood Memory

Post by Vam » Mon Dec 11, 2017 8:09 am

Guest wrote:I think it would be When my dad made me start the car engine for him for the first time when he was sorting a car, he was under the bonnet shouting ....”right hen, start it...turn it aff, turn it aff” the smell of cars and just getting to kick about with my dad I will never forget it.

Or my mum putting her hand on my cheek when I was desperately ill, it’s the comfort in both the things I think . Makes me nearly cry to type it out :


Made me nearly cry, reading it! :ooer:

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