3 things you miss and don't miss from childhood?

I am loving this thread Dragonella..........Thank you!

I miss:
My grandparents
Being closer geographically to my wider family
M&S cornflake cake

I don’t miss:
Having to wear clothes made from material I can’t stand (I have sensory issues)
School
Feeling different to everyone else and not liking it.

Miss
My parents.
Being out all day in the school holidays and feeling safe.
Running to meet grandma off the bus.

Don`t miss.
Nasty teachers.
Going to the outside loo in the night.
School dinners.

Don't miss school stuff - uniform, having to go swimming and taking part in PE (ghastly bully of a teacher).

Do miss - largely carefree attitude to life, running round the block for the fun of it, picnics by the river on a summer day.

Don't miss
The nickname "Fatty"
Cold Lino bedroom floor
Suet

Miss
The snow of 1962-63
Mums steak and kidney pie
Sunday trip to sweet shop

I don’t miss that much about my childhood. I don’t think I was very good at being a child!
I do wish I still had my Arthur Rackam fairy tale books and my doll’s house and I miss the unsupervised time we had roaming around in the countryside.

I don’t miss:
Being told what to do all the time.
Cold houses.
School.

I miss
Playing two balls up the wall
Handstands
Whip and top

I don’t miss.
Scott’s Emulsion.
Nit comb.
Sunday school

Miss
Playing in the woods or garden with my friends.
Mum's fruit pies.
Curling up under the lilac tree in the summer with a book.

Don't miss
Hankies when I had a cold.
Freezing lino on the bedroom floor in winter
My brother's teasing.

BBbevan

I miss
Playing two balls up the wall
Handstands
Whip and top

I don’t miss.
Scott’s Emulsion.
Nit comb.
Sunday school

Gosh that brought back even more memories, especially the playground skills. Did you chalk patterns on the top of your top? I can still do 2 balls against the wall now
I had my hair tightly braided round my head so nits must have found invading really difficult, and what was Scott’s Emulsion for?

I miss:
Filling my mouth with about 10 bubbly’s and blowing a massive bubble that filled my face
Swimming Club and getting up at 5 to train
School
I don’t miss:
Living in a s#%t hole
Being smacked till I cried, then being given something to cry for
My Parents.

MISS
Living near the sea, scraping up sea coal from the beach with my dad.
Waking up on Christmas morning and seeing that knobbly stocking at the bottom of the bed.
The annual trip to town to shop for my new Whitsuntide clothes and feeling very posh having dinner at BHS.

DON’T MISS
Cold, dark outside toilets, particularly when we had a smelly earth closet.
Horrible teachers who smacked for the slightest reason.
Methodist Sunday School every week, and being told drinkers and gamblers would go straight to hell (we lived in a pub with a bookies’ in the back yard ).

Miss:
Coal Fire in my bedroom, when I was studying
Freedom to go on an adventure. (Just like Enid Blyton books).
Kunzle cakes. (I still crave them to this day)

Don't miss:
Outside toilet
The tawse at school.
Chilblains

Marydoll, what are kunzle cakes, sounds German ?

Miss:
Playing outside
Being able to skip, run, do handstands
Mum's cooking

Don't miss:
Heel blisters from new Clark's sandals
Icy patterns on the inside of windows
Having my hair wrapped in strips of sheet to make ringlets

welbeck, Kunzle cakes "Showboats" in the 1960's. A thick chocolate shell, containing cake, topped with butter cream and a small chocolate, there was a round one, a square one, orange and ... my favourite, one with a pink coconut centre, a bit like a Bounty Bar.

Scentia ?

Miss:
Afternoon tea in a department store with a white tablecloth and loaded cake stand
Riding my bike to collect my weekly comic - Robin, then Girl
Mum, Dad, my siblings and lots of pets

Don't miss:
Not having electricity when we lived in the country. Tilly lamps hissed like they were ready to explode!
Runny eyes caused by cigarette smoke in buses, cinemas, cafes
Having to be on my best behaviour around adults

Miss:
Growing up in hot countries,
My father.
The Isle of Wight.

Don't miss:
My mother's questionable cooking abilities.
Long car journeys - I was always car sick.
Tonsillitis.

Miss
My parents
Drene shampoo
Going to Brownies

Don't miss
Homework
Cold bedroom
Long walk to primary school

Marydoll, wow, they look really fancy !
never heard of them. but we were very plain of diet.
can see why you would remember them.

welbeck, we were very poor and this was a very rare treat now and again after church. It depended if my mum was in a good mood and had money in her purse.
You could buy them individually wrapped and the only one I liked was the raspberry coconut one. I'm now craving one!

Just my Nan and Granddad
the feeling if being safe
My school

I miss
Staying up late with mum on Saturday nights while younger siblings were in bed.
The excitement of Christmas as a child.
Mum taking me to the library.

Don't miss
Trying to read Famous Five on Saturday mornings while five siblings played noisily around me.
The nit nurse at school poking through my hair.
Being poor.

I miss
Going to my Grandma’s in the holidays
Playing outside
Reading under the bedcovers

Don’t miss
Chilblains
Miserable teachers and school exams
School milk

i loved school milk.
think it was wicked to take it away.
would be a help now, with so many pupils half hungry.