Did you have a childhood fantasy?

That's made my day, SirChenjin

She'll be right, mate!

I loved 'Wells Fargo', 'The Virginian', 'The Lone Ranger' etc. and longed to go and live in 'Cowboy Land', as I called it. DS1 now lives in rural California where people are walking around in cowboy boots, hats and shirts and at the end of their lane there are rodeos.

Thank you Callistemon. I have very sick people to look after in remote sheep farms and villages so I do need a plane and a jeep. My husband looks like Bryan Brown in A Town Like Alice and says “oh my word” a lot and both he and Jake (my son) are very proud of me. My colleague - an older, very wise and kind male Dr and I have saved countless lives over the years but it’s all in a day’s work, and our patients are always delighted to see us - people run to the makeshift airstrips to welcome us when we arrive.

The Outback doesn’t know what it’s missing really.

There was also a game that I played with my sister called “Squirrels” where we had to go round the garden and find stuff to hoard in some little cupboards and then we would shut ourselves in and pretend that we had to live there for months

Oh...........

I did want a pony, for years and years
And to go to boarding school and take my pony with me (I read too many pony books).

SirChenjin
sorry to spoil your dreams
I'll let you have your very own Bush plane so you can nip around the Outback and get to work on time.

I'm enjoying reading these, and some have reminded me of other fantasies that I had too.

My circus family still haven't found me - one day, maybe - but I did lead a very mobile life for the first twenty years of my adult life, travelling from place to place, so maybe they tried but never caught up with me!

Me too Evie64

To own Black Beauty and belong to the Pony Club!

Oh Evie64 my morning giggle ??

All I ever fantasised about was owning my own Black Beauty along with a covered wagon like the cowboy films. I was born and brought up on the top (4th) floor of a council block in London SE1. I remember pleading with my dad to buy me a horse (poor sod!). He said "how we would get it up the stairs?" I said "Well, we wouldn't have to would we, we have a bike shed downstairs in the entrance to the flats, I'll saw the door in half and that can be it's stable". Don't know what the problem was, I mean really.........

Callistemon I will thank you not to rain on my Aussie parade - in my head the geography and boredom levels worked out just fine, thank you

I would witness a crime being committed, but no one else would know. Then I would begin writing a series of books where a teenage heroine (who was also a nurse) would expose the crime then solve it. I would then be the world's most amazing sleuth. I guess this explains a youth wasted on pipe dreams. ? ?

You'd be bored SirChenjin

Not the Flying Doctor part but living on a outback station (all those men) and the drive to work could be a few hundred miles!
Although you'd probably have your own airstrip and fly.

I wanted to be a doctor or a nurse on the flying doctor service in Australia. I had a whole life mapped out - I’d marry an Aussie sheep farmer, we’d have one son who would do his lessons by radio and I’d drive to work in a jeep in a remote town and we’d fly from the airstrip to the outback. I was absolutely obsessed with the idea - still wish I’d done it actually.

My childhood fantasy was to marry a rich man and have loads of children. I used to have loads of dolls and prams, I would play with them ALL the time, I always wanted to be a mum. I did marry, he wasn’t rich and I only had two children but I am satisfied at that. Not many people get to live their childhood dreams?

My childhood fantasy was that my parents were not really mine and that my real parents would find me and whisk me off to their snow covered palace ...... I also wished that my dad would go on nightshift and never some home .......

A teacher is born! ?

??? I have a car and several telephones!!

I did have very well-educated soft toys. They were lined up and not allowed to move until they learned their times tables.

Why, Call you were as materialistic as me ( shame on you)?

I wanted to be a teacher because I wanted to be called 'Miss M' or 'Mrs Whatever my married name might be'. No other reason.

Oh, and I wanted a car and a telephone.

I so wanted to be one of the Famous Five. I was brought up on a council estate and their lives were so comfortable and middle class; they had a stay at home Mother (my Mum was a single Mum and worked) and a father who had a professional job. Also, they had the most amazing adventures and never got bored during the school holidays!

I wanted to be a farmer's wife, with baby animals frolicking around me.

I never thought much further than that. I was going to leave all that to the farmer to worry about.

I spent a lot of my childhood on the woolwich ferries.
I loved them so much that in my imagination I fitted them out to live on.
I was lucky enough at 34 to start living on my first boat ( that was for 5 years. Then we bought an empty Thames lighter and fitted it out exactly as we wanted it. We lived on that one for 15 years. We took that boat down to the Mediterranean.

I fantasised that I was adopted, my real parents were fabulous in every way.
I had brothers and sisters that loved me and we spoke lots of languages.

I thought I was a twin and t’other died. She was the naughty one who still had influence over me and when I misbehaved and explained it to my mother she slapped me twice.... one for me and one for her! That learnt me!