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My favourite childhood memory was having epic games of marbles.

My lovely grandmother teaching me to cook, we would pick fruit from her large garden, apples, plums, gooseberries etc and we would make delicious fruit pies. Unfortunately my mother did not have much time for me. I would have loved to have lived with nanna & grandad. I adored my grandmother.

Watching Laurel and Hardie on the TV on Saturday mornings with my Dad

Winning at chess

Baking with my mum, we would spend hours baking Apple pancakes, soda bread, Apple pies, shortbread......i can still smell the wonderful aroma of newly cooked food from the kitchen.

My dad making a snowman wit,h me as tall as me with a hat and scarf

Long summers in the garden playing with my sister, building rope swings on the apple tree.

3 in a bed when Granna was babysitting

On the odd occasions when life gets me down I always think back to a vivid image from my childhood of Dad having to wear swimming trunks hand-knitted by my Grandma during World War 11. Money was tight, he could not afford to get new ones but he was so determined to teach me to swim he grinned and bore the reactions of others!

Visits to my Nan, we had to go on the Tube, very exciting!

I remember my Dad helping me try to catch a butterfly on the window. We caught it and put it in a bubbles tin. I think I was about 3 or 4 at the time.

Being packed in the car an told we were going to Nannies when in actual fact we were going on our first holiday on the ferry to France!

Being a bridesmaid with a white dress and a red velvet bolero- I felt so chic and to end the day seeing a shooting star light up the sky . Magical

Playing outdoors in the summer

wandering off with friends to go play in the local woods

My favourite memory has got to be the one where my nan would pick me up from school and everytime we would go home and have egg and soldiers and she would give me a marsbar. On one of those days she arrived at my school and gave me a ring with a black stone on it. I had said I wanted one for ages and she hadn't forgot. It was the most beautiful ring I had ever seen and i still have that ring now. One day I will wear it on my wedding day so she is with me. Thank you x

Cooking potatoes wrapped in tin foil on a bonfire in the field and skimming stones across the river on holiday in Wales

I remember my Dad teaching me how to ride a two wheeled bike. He took me to the park and sat me on it and gave an enormous push. I pedalled like mad because I knew that if I stopped I would fall off

Just playing out with my mates.
Good Times!

Sitting with my grandparents in their garden, drinking tea, eating fresh scones that I had helped my grandmother bake. I would then help my grandfather in the garden, he taught me so many flower names and bird species.

My father was in the forces, so we moved around Europe a lot when I was a kid. We lived in loads of great locations and had some fantastic holidays.

my fave memory of my childhood is getting my little red pedal car for my 5th birthday, I played with that car until I got to big, the wheels was wore right down. I played with that car whenever I could

my mum would take me to London at Christmas time every year, we would walk along Oxford and Regent street breathing in the Christmas atmosphere, buying roasted chestnuts and buying a toy from a street vendor before catching the train sleepily home.

my favourite memory involves my grandparents, we used to go every weekend to stay and we spent the times playing cards and dominoes. Such happy memories

On the beach at Margate, with my Grandparents, and Grandad, wearing my Bay City Rollers hat, with his trousers rolled up, paddling with me in the freezing sea, in a stiff June gale!