Born before 1986? Read this...

[Ixion]

3/4d a gallon in Auckland - maybe have been dearer in the sticks ?

[scumdog]

3/4d a gallon in Auckland - maybe have been dearer in the sticks ?

Maybe - but it WAS for Super - probably 98 octanes of leaded horsepower juice!!

[Pixie]

That cartoon with Seaman Staines, Master Bates and Roger the cabin boy????

Now there is that one with the red guy and his bright red arse hanging out... WTF is that all about too??? But we digress....

Captain Pugwash it was.His ship The Black Pig wouldn't be acceptable today.
And The Klangers,on their weird planet with the soup dragons that guarded the pea soup wells.

[Pixie]

How about walking to the local baths in the summer? We used to go to the baths in Kandalah and catch the crawlies that got into the pool from the stream that fed it. The attendant used to pay us a whole ice block - each! What riches.

We used to go into the bush behind Tawa and catch and cook crawlies.And watch the tiger moth topdresser taking off from the airstrip on the ridge.
Now, the nimbies would bleat about the noise

[Dadpole]

We used to go into the bush behind Tawa and catch and cook crawlies.And watch the tiger moth topdresser taking off from the airstrip on the ridge.

Fortunately I live in an area where my son (10) can still do all that stuff, and I encourage him to fall out of trees, get covered in mud etc and do what used to be considered "normal kid stuff".
This attitude should not be confused with that of his mother.

[Indiana_Jones]

Indy says that 1986 is f*cking awsome!

-Indy

[Dadpole]

Bloody 'ell.
That could put a man off his corn flakes.

[scumdog]

Indy says that 1986 is f*cking awsome! [/FONT][/CENTER]



-Indy

Bloody hell, was in my 30's then!!

[buellbabe]

What a great read, love remembering those days...
I used to walk everywhere until I got a 2nd-hand bike for Xmas (and thought I was SO lucky).
My best friend and I would go wandering the whole day and so long as we turned up for dinner the folks weren't worried.
Mum never 'taxi-ed' me anywhere, I learnt to catch buses...
My parents used to get abandoned vehicles towed into our back yard for my brother and I to play with... we were endlessly amused!
Sigh, life was good.

[Wolf]

Admittedly my kids are savvy with how to operate TV, DVD player and computer even at 2 and 3 years of age but they also are fearless adventurers outside as well, climbing over adventure playgrounds designed for much older kids since they began walking (net ladders, climbing walls, swing bridges etc) and the three-year old rides a bike he cannot get onto without assistance around the BMX track near Minogue Park in Hamilton (and falls off and gets back on the bike and his legs are a mass of bruises) and gets varied reactions from other kids (7-year-old BMXer: "He rides well for a 3-year-old"; assorted PC snotty-nosed BMX kids: "It's cruel making him ride over that big track"; 13-year-old girl (on BMX with no armour, gloves or helmet) to PC kids: "Ahh, shut up!").

The 2-year-old was riding a trike before he could walk and would probably be riding a pushbike by now if he hadn't broken his leg trying to balance on a ball.

I want them to grow up building their own tree huts and mucking about with home-made go-karts etc - I will be there supervising them until I deem them to be proficient enough that they don't need me breathing down their necks.

[Ixion]

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I want them to grow up building their own tree huts and mucking about with home-made go-karts etc - I will be there supervising them until I deem them to be proficient enough that they don't need me breathing down their necks.

Spoilsport - admit it, you just want to play too!

[Wolf]

Spoilsport - admit it, you just want to play too!

I plead the Fifth Amendment




If you can call running around Minogue Park BMX track after a three-year-old "playing" - direct supervision was easier when he was just cycling around the lawn at around walking speed. This is why I want to get him a motor bike: he'll have to go "back a step" (flat terrain, speed limited to walking pace) for a while until he learns proper control, so I won't have to run!

[Colapop]

Only over to where he's fallen off!

[Wolf]

Only over to where he's fallen off!

Since I'll be walking alongside, that shouldn't be far.

[Charlie]

What a great read, love remembering those days...
I used to walk everywhere until I got a 2nd-hand bike for Xmas (and thought I was SO lucky).

My grandad use to make our bikes with second hand bike parts. Would tinker in his garage for ages taking all the good parts and assembling them to make 1 good bike. Then just a lick of paint and I was the proudest biker in Jellicoe Street! Grandads ROCK!!!!