My Tricycle, The Icecream Truck
By kbourgerie
@kbourgerie (8780)
United States
March 11, 2009 6:41am CST
Its funny how when you read someone else's discussion your thoughts start to wander. A friend of mine posted a discussion about an early childhood book that most of us have read. And in answering to his discussion he started me reminiscing about those things that I did as a child. I remember turning my tricycle upside down and turning it into an icecream truck. I had as many flavors as I did spokes. They cut down the apricot tree in our back garden and it soon became the throne of the King of the Hill. I remember standing below the cherry tree, bucket in hand trying to catch the falling pennies from heaven. The lost shoe at the end of the garden belonged to Cinderella, the gooseberries, the deadly apple lodged in Snow White's throat. Year after year, reading Dr Suess, Little Golden Books, Brer Rabbit and Tar Baby as each of my sisters and I grew into school age. Firecrackers at Christmas dinner. I could go on and on and on, but I'm showing my age. LOL. So please, do share, what are some of your favorite childhood memories?
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
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11 Mar 09
Where to start Kat? OK. Turning the lounge into a wild-west camp complete with teepees. The sofa was the wagon and we were either on it, behind it or under it (pull it over. Mum shouts but hey, this is warfare going on) and boy was there a lot of blood shed! Then it was all out to the garden or into the kitchen for orange squash and sandwiches. Cucumber or tomato. Then there was motor racing. That required the camp beds in the garden. Lots of soldiers invading the rockery or garage. We had a flat roof on the garage and up there made a great look out for all sorts of things. We made a tarzan slide in the woods and threw off the guard dogs as we escaped by wading through the stream up there too. That turned out to be a sewer stream! That cost me big time. My friend's mum scrubbed me until I was raw after that one. She didn't want me going home stinking and my Mum thinking that she was being negligent. We played "Isaac Newton". We'd sit under a tree waiting for an apple to fall. Someone went up the tree to drop the apple of course. If it landed on your head the dropper scored points. When we were a little older we used to help out at the boat yard. In exchange for out labour (ha ha) we got to take out a rowing boat. Then that became the pirate ship and those not in the boat would swim out and try to board us. The River Thames has quite a current, so you had to dive in slightly downstream of the boat and with a little luck you would meet it. Of course you or it might get swept away too fast, in which case you had to head back to the bank, run down the field and dive in again. Health and Safety would have a field day. Will that do for now?
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@kbourgerie (8780)
• United States
11 Mar 09
I laughed out loud when I read about Isaac Newton. And for points? OMG, that is hilarious. I'm glad I wasn't drinking anything when I read that. Just goes to show that brilliant minds think alike. You and I were on the same wavelength today, from friends, to hugging, to The 100 Acre Wood to the things we did as children. Its fun to reminisce about those things isn't it?
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@kbourgerie (8780)
• United States
11 Mar 09
I see pictures of Norman Rockwell when I think of you and your grandfather.
@mummymo (23706)
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12 Mar 09
Sounds like an almost idyllic childhood kat honey! I was the baby of my family and therefore very spoilt! lol I have many wonderful memories but I think my favourite is of being nice and cosy indoors in front of a coal fire on freezing winter nights , fresh and clean out of the bath and wrapped in my nighty, dressing gown and slippers whilst my Granddad put Rags in my hair so that I would have beautiful ringlets the next day! Couldn't sleep at night as the hair was so tight it would hurt like heck but I loved that time with my Granddad! xxxx
