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I have just munched down on a Nature Valley granola bar, (apple crisp flavor) and apple wedges with peanut butter. Been years since I ate apples and peanut butter. I was instantly transported back about 27 years to when my mom would make snacks for me and my sister, summers spent on my grandparents farm, playing "Ghost in the Graveyard" with the neighborhood kids, making mud pies, running just to see how fast you could go, climbing trees....

What makes you nostalgic?

The drink Dandelion & Burdock (Dandock), when i was a kid my mum would pack us off to the local park for the day with a picnic of sandwiches & Dandock.

Sundays in queens park meant fun to me, splashing in the paddling pool, riding on the Lindilou (boat) around the lake, playing "you're it" around irate swans, waiting in line at the cafe for an ice cream with our pennies then going home tired & grubby to our lovely warm & well rested mum (there were 7 of us!)

I still go to queens park but alas the paddling pool is empty & full of weeds, no swans nor boats on the boating lake, in fact no kids!!

Sign of the times i suppose, parents can no longer pack the kids off for the day while they have a well earned rest, too many dangers, and the kids prefer to spend the day in front of a t.v or playing with their computor games.

I know that technology is a wonderful thing but will the kids of today have such memories of their childhood?? i dont think so. :yh_sigh

Mostly music. I will actually avoid playing music I love... if it brings me sad memories. The smell of cut grass,, kills me, reminds me of the love of my life ..gone now. Mint chocolate chip ice cream.Baskin Robbins.. I ate a pint a day when I was expecting my first child. The smell of moth balls reminds me of my Itallian relatives when I was growing up.. A row of Bradford pear trees growing on the side of a road.. Absolutely beautiful.. Makes me think of my Weeds and Leaves landscaping days.... When I see a small man... with tiny blue eyes... missing his eyebrows... and hear him speak in a tiny whiny voice.. I think of the man who was my idol..... many years ago.. Taught me floral design. Broiled chicken. salad, corn on the cob. and iced tea with lemon.. for dinner.. Makes me remember summer nights growing up eating outside with my family laughing.

abbey wrote: The drink Dandelion & Burdock


Oh eurgh, I have always found that horrid - nostalgia of a sort, I guess! I bought the Young Master some Nutella a month or so back, remembering how I used to like it, but now I can't stand it. He also turned his nose up at it, so I use it for bainting rat or squirrel traps now. What a waste.



abbey wrote: I know that technology is a wonderful thing but will the kids of today have such memories of their childhood?? i dont think so.


They'll have different memories, of course.... if you know any that you can introduce to the delights of yesteryear (gulp!) then do so! Pic-nics, the country, etc. Mots of them don't go out, or if they do, it's only from A to B. Most of them don't have any experience of cold in winter, and the magical thing associated with it. The other seasons? Indoors then, too! There are still boating lakes - I mentioned to a Noob yesterday that I took a trip to Bedford - there's a good one there, + you can walk around the river, get ice-creams, etc....

BabyRider wrote: I have just munched down on a Nature Valley granola bar, (apple crisp flavor) and apple wedges with peanut butter. Been years since I ate apples and peanut butter. I was instantly transported back about 27 years to when my mom would make snacks for me and my sister, summers spent on my grandparents farm, playing "Ghost in the Graveyard" with the neighborhood kids, making mud pies, running just to see how fast you could go, climbing trees....

What makes you nostalgic?


Most Definately "Christmas Time" I always lament about the huge christmas gatherings we went to as kids. Now it is a very very small affair. Sigh.

abbey wrote: The drink Dandelion & Burdock (Dandock), when i was a kid my mum would pack us off to the local park for the day with a picnic of sandwiches & Dandock.

Sundays in queens park meant fun to me, splashing in the paddling pool, riding on the Lindilou (boat) around the lake, playing "you're it" around irate swans, waiting in line at the cafe for an ice cream with our pennies then going home tired & grubby to our lovely warm & well rested mum (there were 7 of us!)

I still go to queens park but alas the paddling pool is empty & full of weeds, no swans nor boats on the boating lake, in fact no kids!!

Sign of the times i suppose, parents can no longer pack the kids off for the day while they have a well earned rest, too many dangers, and the kids prefer to spend the day in front of a t.v or playing with their computor games.

I know that technology is a wonderful thing but will the kids of today have such memories of their childhood?? i dont think so. :yh_sigh True Abbey. Did you ever bring bread left-overs for the ducks? And we had Orange Maid Ice Pops too.

capt_buzzard wrote: True Abbey. Did you ever bring bread left-overs for the ducks? And we had Orange Maid Ice Pops too.
Leftover bread, whats that?? never any leftovers in our house with 7 kids! Orange maid ice pops? Mmm.. NO, my mum used to insist on putting orange juice & a lolly stick in an egg cup & freezing it!

When i think back to the "good old days" we did'nt have much but then neither did my friends so what you never had you never missed.

I remember buying a wafer from the park cafe, which was two thin wafers & a small wrapped block of lyons maid ice cream & you "made" your own up, a little messy on a hot sunny day, but it was worth it. :wah:

abbey wrote: Leftover bread, whats that?? never any leftovers in our house with 7 kids! Orange maid ice pops? Mmm.. NO, my mum used to insist on putting orange juice & a lolly stick in an egg cup & freezing it!

When i think back to the "good old days" we did'nt have much but then neither did my friends so what you never had you never missed.

I remember buying a wafer from the park cafe, which was two thin wafers & a small wrapped block of lyons maid ice cream & you "made" your own up, a little messy on a hot sunny day, but it was worth it. :wah:
They don't make Ice Cream like they did in the old days. Yes Lyons Maid mmmm and the six penny wafer, with the red ripple. What about the sweets? Lucky lumps

ScopeSlave I know of Nutella becaue one of my wife's friends likes it.

I liked it at first but can only handel a little bit of it.

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