This is from an email which occasionally makes the rounds:
Do you remember your childhood in Australia ?
Those were the days
Close your eyes....And go back....
Before the Internet or the MAC
Before semi automatics and crack
Before SEGA or Super Nintendo...
Way back.......
I'm talking about "spotlight" at camp.
"Murder In The Dark".
Playing Catch and Kiss until the street lights came on.
About "Please" and "Thankyou"
What's the time Mr. Wolf?
Elastics
Running through the sprinkler on the school oval
Hot Chooks and cold Cottees cordial
Wait......
Watching ABC in the afternoons
G-Force, Voltron, Astro, My Secret Valley, Inspector Gadget and the "Froggy" song in between Playschool and Sesame Street
And the ads... Rita, the Eta eater, Palmolive, the Panadol lady and
"Boooob Jaaaaaaaane - T Mart"
When there was TAA and Telecom... got together.
Everything you needed to know you could learn on "Simon Townsends
Wonder World" (I still refer to it!)
Wanting to audition for The Young Talent Team (Bevan Addinsal and Joey
Perroni - what gods!)
Catching taddies in a jar
Christmas day... Roast lunch, cricket on the telly
Your first day of school
Bedtime Prayers and Goodnight Kisses
Climbing trees (and falling out and climbing back up)
When all you wanted to do on a hot day was "wrap yer laughing gear around a
Pauls Billabong"
Agro and "Wombat"
Rainy days at school meant watching "Phar lap" or "Man from Snowy River " in
the "AV" room.
Mosquito bites, sandfly bites and sealice.
Aerogard ... 'ava good weekend
Jumping down the steps
Jumping on the bed.
Pillow fights
Running till you were out of breath
Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt
Being tired from playing....
Your first crush......Remember that?
I'm not finished yet....
Red Frogs and Chokitos
Dinking your friends on your bike
"Back To School" sales
School Camps
Having to wear a teatowel around your neck to eat a mango
Watermelon seed spitting competitions
When 20 cents seemed like decent pocket money, and fifty cents was a
miracle.
Remember discovering "Rage"? And remember discovering Rage played "rude"
songs late at night?
Trying to stay up all night to watch Rage?
When your town got McDonalds?
When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate
that awaited a misbehaving student at home.
Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, Yeah, I remember that!
I want to go back to the time when............
Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo" (and "racing car number
nine")
"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in "Monopoly"
It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.
Being old, referred to anyone over 15.
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "germs".
Nobody was prettier than Mum.... except maybe Delvene Delaney on "Sale Of A Century" (and the Paul Hogan show!)
Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better. And the lady in sick bay
never wore latex gloves to put on a Bandaid.
It was a big deal to finally be tall enough to ride the "big people" rides at the show.
Going to The Royal Easter Show in Sydney was the ultimate!
Abilities were discovered because of a "Dare" "Double Dare" "PHYSICAL
CHALLENGE!!!"
Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles.
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
Water balloons were the ultimate ultimate weapon. (hee hee and the garden hose!!)
Jumping off the paling fence on to the trampoline was a good idea
Slip 'n slide on the back lawn was a day of summer fun
Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest protectors.
Getting together with all the kids from the neighborhood and building a bonfire for the Queens Birthday weekend or as we called it Guy Fawkes night, and letting
off crackers...
When you gave a Christmas present to the “garbo” and the “postie”.
When you used to play at the swamp before it was called “the Gardens”.
If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED!!!!
