MEMORYS

[The Grock in the Frock]

my children bought a box of little white things that you throw on the ground and they explode and make a fair bit of noise as they bang.we had lots of fun with them as we drove to the plot and the children threw them out of the car at unsuspecting passers by,and we watched them jump.this brought me back to a holiday i went on with the tart and her parents to dollgogh falls,and we would put these little exploding things under the seats of the public toilets,and wait outside for the loud bang and the the screeams of the ladies taking a wee.
what things do you lot remember getting up too as children. xxxxx

[jopsy]

nowt that exciting!!
off the top of my head i cant remember!
my mum n dad are down here atm-they keep telling me things i did and how much lily is like me!
ill ask mum-shes the memory of an elephant!

[Angi]

Call me an old grump, but I can't believe you let your kids do that! What if you frightened someone with a weak heart or poor balance? It also seems irresponsible to encourage throwing things out of car windows. I certainly wasn't a saint as a child, but I never played pranks with my parents' consent.

[submariner]

Snap to Angies comments!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lizzie]

Cheers Grock

I was telling Big Andrew about the toilet one and he laughed and laughed. Then I told Mum and she said that if she'd have found out she'd have slapped the pair of us

As for the loud noises, people get worse than that where me and Grock live. This week i've had to contend with 2 armed police raids by the Matrix Squad (getting rid of drugs and guns off the streets which is fair enough)on some of my neighbours, the police helicopter hovering overhead for 3 nights cos of kids, and the prats down the road who've just moved in a week ago. They've been drinking solidly ever since and causeing a major nuisance to the neighbours. If it carries on there will be trouble. There are a lot of nice families here, and there are 4 newborn babies. A few of the men are getting annoyed (as am I) with being woken constantly

Ahhhh, life in the city.......i'd swop it anytime. I think the Gaza Strip is pretty quiet this time of year

[jopsy]

lizzie n grock you make me smile
think its your northerness! i miss it!
kids get up to all-sorts sadly!
we were disc that at sch today

[Cider Boys]

Yes, I am a miserable g*t and I’m with Angie and Submariner on this one.

Barney

[Primrose]

I recall that shortly after the war when there were virtully no cars in our street, our "gang" would get very long pieces of string, tie one end onto a door knocker, walk across the road and tie the other end to the door knocker of the neighbour opposite. Then we would hide behing a hedge and wait for the first car to come along and knock both doors. We would also tie door knockers to the person's front gate. My parents would have killed me had they known!

[alan refail]

A common trick when I was young was to stick a drawing pin, point upwards, on the sneck (Suffolk Latch to you southerners) with dog s**t.
I was going to describe the subsequent events, but am saved the trouble by this website remembering the same thing:

http://www.wilflunn.com/autobiography/a ... aphy16.htm

Like you Barney I'm an old git now, but we weren't in the old days

Alan

[The Grock in the Frock]

aaaar alan,you just reminded me of another thing we would do,angi youl looove this...take a piece of dog poo,wrap up loosly in news paper,place the parcle outside someones front door,prefably on the step,light the end of the paper,knock on the door,then run and hide were you can see the front door,but they cant see you.then roll laughing on the floor as you watch them stamp the fire out

[Primrose]

I remember a former acquaintance doing just this (setting fire to dog poo in newspaper) on his neighbour's front doorstep in posh Kensington in an act of exasperation because he was thoroughly sick of his neighbour's dog pooing on his front doorstep. It proved a very expensive act because it caused such animosity and venom between the two households that my acquaintance eventually had to move house.