Dirt

[maltrab]

How many of us were like this, mum would send us out to play and say, Don't come back covered in dirt

 

[BruceC]

Its interesting.. I went back to my home town (Kurnell - where Capt Cook landed!) and driving around the small town over 2 days I didnt see 1 kid out on a bike or playing on the beach.. nothing..

Then I noticed my current town - is the same. Few people walking dogs... but no kids.

The only kids I see are the ones walking to school face buried in a phone - or at the bus stop for th 1klm trip to school...

We used to come home from school Friday, launch the school clothes and bag and come home Sunday night... Would modern kids survive "in our day"... ?

 

[Barrychuckle]

It's not just kids, Edie had the same problem with her Wesley!

 

[mashibinbin]

With Wes-lay it was the last of the summer grime!

 

[Pearl]

The summer of 76 when we had the heatwave we used to throw ourselves in the canal then walk home slowly to dry off hoping the mother wouldn't notice. We were bone dry but some how she knew! We could never work out why! But now having kids it was either the filth or the stink. Not sure how we lived this long, don't ever remember having antibiotics or a bath every day.

 

[Amos Hames 2]

Me and my brother would go to the local recreation ground in the pouring rain and play football and come home covered in mud

 

[ferret]

Tree houses, catapults, air guns, knife/ axe throwing, campfires, digging “foxholes” into the sandbanks, jumping the river, walking in the river as far as we could physically go, rope swings over said river- usually ending up in it, camping, racing go karts down the slopes on the sand hills, football matches lasting a couple of hours, rellivo 123, kerby, never did me any harm.
I’m still doing some of these things 50 years on

 

[maltrab]

As a lad we lived in Southampton for a year or so and during a few weeks out of hospital my mum would let me out for a few hours, clean and smart with a white shirt, we were living close to the docks and I loved crossing the railway on a footbridge with a massive span over many busy railway tracks, with constant steam trains passing underneath, I could see the massive boats in the docks but I loved to watch the trains, when I got home my mum would say you have been down those docks again, I thought how did she know I had kept my shoes clean, wore gloves so my hands were clean, of course what gave the game away was my sooty face and clothes , and yes I probably smelled like a steam train.

 

[theatrically_inclined]

As a lad we lived in Southampton ... I probably smelled like a steam train.

you still do!

 

[Pearl]

That was a childhood, you learned how to survive and had more fresh air then you needed.