Do you have any favourite childhood memories? You know the ones that always make your heart smile when you think back on them?

One of my favourite childhood memories is of kissing a dolphin at Seaworld. I was so scared but so happy once I had done it.

Another is playing with my Nanna's Chanel Number 5 and Youth Dew bottles and sneaking a spray when I thought she wasn't looking. I also use to love her green lipstick that came out red when you applied it, I called those her majic lipsticks.

I also remember me,my brother and our best childhood friend throwing apple cores on the horrible old woman's roof up the street. :chuckle::chuckle:

going down to the lake with 2 friends when it had mostly dried up, and tried walking along the dried mud....it ended disasterous. :chuckle: We ended up walking home covered in mud and I had to wash it off on the front lawn 'cause dad nearly had a heart attack when he saw me.

After that we gave ourselves nicknames. I was 'mudhopper', the other ones were 'daredevil' and 'twinkletoes'

Awwww that's so cute Jaime.

Sitting in a huge Mulberry tree at my great granparents with my sisters & cousins scoffing Mulberries.

Playing our own "street" version of Man o Man (with all the neighbourhood boys and girls) a couple of us girls got the guys to line up in a row and we walked alongside the pool and pushed all of them in - just like the girls did in the tv programme!

I have plenty of other memories but this cracks me up all the time!

My big sister and I used to cart a table out the front of our house and set up shop, trying to sell toys and bits and pieces from around the house to our poor unsuspecting neighbours :chuckle:

We had so much fun doing it though!

Well my grandparents looked after me and I remember watching my grandma make her self pretty.
She always made sure I washed my face and combed my hair into ringlets when I got out of the bath. I used to hate that at that stage! :chuckle:
But yeah, now she always gives me her GWP because she is a huge Estee Lauder fan and she gives me the mascaras.

My big sister and I used to cart a table out the front of our house and set up shop, trying to sell toys and bits and pieces from around the house to our poor unsuspecting neighbours :chuckle:

We had so much fun doing it though!

That is super cute Celeste. I can just imagne you setting up shop!:chuckle::chuckle:

That is super cute Celeste. I can just imagne you setting up shop!:chuckle::chuckle:

I used to play schools and hotels too - often by myself because my sisters didn't want to be students/guests :chuckle: But I had fun and could play on my own like that for hours. My mum still says how cute it was. I was always obsessed with stationery and ticking things!!

I used to play schools and hotels too - often by myself because my sisters didn't want to be students/guests :chuckle: But I had fun and could play on my own like that for hours. My mum still says how cute it was. I was always obsessed with stationery and ticking things!!

This is what i was gonna say. I had this huge teachers blackboard made so i could play schools at home, i tried to rope my friends into playing but they never wanted to be students either. And because i was a bossy little thing.

I used to play schools and hotels too - often by myself because my sisters didn't want to be students/guests :chuckle: But I had fun and could play on my own like that for hours. My mum still says how cute it was. I was always obsessed with stationery and ticking things!!

It would seem from my Adore Orders you still are obsessed with ticking things :chuckle::chuckle::chuckle: It's only been since you jumped on board that the ticks have started appearing in my order receipts!! :chuckle::chuckle: Is it you that does that or is it Nikki in the wearhouse?

My brother and I use to play shops and we would use the manopoly money as our "cash"!! Credit cards weren't around those days!!

It would seem from my Adore Orders you still are obsessed with ticking things :chuckle::chuckle::chuckle: It's only been since you jumped on board that the ticks have started appearing in my order receipts!! :chuckle::chuckle: Is it you that does that or is it Nikki in the wearhouse?

Hahaha that is an intruiguing coincidence! Can't take the credit there though, Nikki and the other warehouse girls do the ticking to ensure all the right items are included in orders!

I have a ton, and they all involve my mumma.

Also lots of summers when the whole family went to Bateman's Bay. The drive down the mountain is so vivid - it's really windy (as in lots of twists and turns), and at one of the passes someone had carved a little cave into the hillside and called it 'Winnie the Pooh's corner'. We'd always wait for it and get really excited when it was coming up, to see if we could catch a glimpse. When it got closer to Christmas some lovely soul would put tinsel up around the edges. It was a bit cute.

That's awesome raspberry!

I remember my bro and I used to flood this little paved area in our back yard and we'd put up these wierd pole thingys that you could connect together and create ladders, castles, whatever. It was so cool.

I also remember making my family sit down and watch me and my friends to 'concerts'. Gosh it must have been magical for them to watch my rendition on Mariah Carey's Hero. :chuckle:

i would also 'torture' my siblings with "school" :clapping:
& we often set up our very own garage sales , i remember one in particular i did with a dear friend in our local park , the old lady across the road came & bought stuff from us . She bought an old plastic piggy bank from me that had lost it's plug , i showed her but said she would fix it at home , makes me smile , what a wonderful lady & the old guy [we loved to bits] next door was going to come down but we had packed up early & he said how disappointed he was as he 'needed' some stuff :)
the other big thing was how there were many kids in our street & all w/e we would be coming & going from each other houses , it was so much fun .

I was an insomniac child and one of my favorite memories is my mum reading me 'Can't you sleep Little Bear' about 100 times.

I get so nostalgic when it comes to childhood memories... I dont think Ive let go of it yet!
I remember when we bought a new fridge, I took the box and turned it into a post office. I would take the mail out of the mailbox, and expected everyone in my family to come to my 'post office' to pick up their mail and pay me :chuckle: I think that lasted about a week, until my older brother got annoyed and kept stealing the mail, so i had to give up that career path...

Serena that's so cute! Its amazing what amuses kids isn't it? I grew up in Darwin so one of (many) favourite memories is going camping in Kakadu and particularly Jim Jim falls. I used to go with friends of our family and i remember swimming in the natural rock pools and just hanging out completely surrounded by nature. No worries or cares to bother me. I have vivid dreams now of the red earth of the NT - and as i live in Ireland where it's so green i wake up homesick quite often. Another thing i remember is the thunder storms we had in Darwin and just sitting on our veranda listening to thunder and watching the lightning. I feel all homesick now..

Wow guess the scenery would really be different now, but sounds like great memories kelly :)

We went on camping trips as kids and I remember our extended family going up to Wallagoot Lake/Merimbula every Christmas for a number of years. There was a man who would bring around a cart with fresh milk and a few lollies and he would yell 'milka! Milka!' and our parents would give us a dollar each or something to buy a sweet. Ahhh they were good days.

yeah the good old days where $1 would get you HEAPS of lollies!

Packing up all our stuff today feels like the last day of the School Year when we were kids!

Geez........... so many.

The beach at Nanna's - or standing on the porch looking out at the ocean, or walking up the hill in the mist & dew.

Blackcurrant picking at Nan & Pops, the roses and lavender and other flowers there. Walking the gravel road to their house, rounding the corner and seeing the driveway.

My Brother and our bestie use to ride our bikes off this huge cliff and into the river! It was incredibly dangerous and we could easily have been killed but at the time it was fun! We loved it and I still love the memory of it.

When we got caught by our parents we were grounded for 4 weeks.

The most awful thing is that a young boy drowned doing exactly the same thing around a year later.

yeah the good old days where $1 would get you HEAPS of lollies!

good lord i remember when 20 cents would :whistle: :shakehead:

My Brother and our bestie use to ride our bikes off this huge cliff and into the river! It was incredibly dangerous and we could easily have been killed but at the time it was fun! We loved it and I still love the memory of it.

When we got caught by our parents we were grounded for 4 weeks.

The most awful thing is that a young boy drowned doing exactly the same thing around a year later.

oh no pcc

Sitting in a huge Mulberry tree at my great granparents with my sisters & cousins scoffing Mulberries.

I lurve mulberries. I used to go to my uncles and pick them and then take them home, eat so many that I'd feel sick and make jam with the rest.

Running around in the orchard next door in autumn and winter. Hiding in there in summer. The creek down the back - fascinated and terrified me at the same time.

gosh , remember mulberries , they were divine , oh & we had a yellow raspberry bush , they were so yummy , but bloody hard to pick , the bush was covered in thorns

Blackberry picking with Mum

Goint to the movies to see Dirty Dancing with my friends. We were around 10 or 11 and we thought we were so cool going to the movies together.

So many memories.....
- camping with the family/friends circle of mum and Dad, kids everywhere, great times
- I too set up shop outside my house
-go kart racing with my brother, and the stacks that went with it
and the best one
-I remember my Grandma dragging me to DJs and trekking around the beauty counters so she could convince herself she needed something just to get the GWP, it was usually estee lauder, then I'd get the GWP!...... hehhe, I guess the beauty bug is hereditary. Whenever i buy something new and my mum is with me she says..... 'just like your grandma :shakehead:'

Summers and weekends at our beach house;
Playing in a beautiful creek with smooth stones in the bottom with my favourite cousins;
Carrying around a blue handbag of empty and half-empty perfume bottles my big sisters gave me and which I adored;
Drinking 'spiders' (softdrink with icecream) in the 'Seaview' cafe with by big sisters (again!)
Visiting our elderly neighbour on her farm on Sunday nights to take her to church (she was old and partially blind) where she would somehow manage to cook two sponge-cakes with cream and an assortment of slices and biscuits just for my mother, little sister and myself with severely limited eyesight and bodily movement. I would 'play' her grand piano and peer through her crystal cabinets at all the beautiful china, silverware and trinkets (including a little silver horse which she later gave me and which I still have) and she would feed us all sorts of goodies. She was a darling in the truest sense.

nan taking us to the big lake near her old house...and getting chased by a swan :shakehead:

I also remember when we were in NZ in '94, us kids demanded mum and dad pulled over so we could play on every playground we came across! Mum always says to this day she reckons we stopped at every playground in NZ :chuckle:

nan taking us to the big lake near her old house...and getting chased by a swan :shakehead:

I also remember when we were in NZ in '94, us kids demanded mum and dad pulled over so we could play on every playground we came across! Mum always says to this day she reckons we stopped at every playground in NZ :chuckle:

That's cute. Whenever my family and I went on a long road trip Mum always packed a picnic lunch and tea and snacks and I always insisted she make me a chicken loaf sandwich with butter and mustard pickles. I have many a memory sitting on a swing-set eating my favourite chicken loaf sandwich with butter and mustard pickles - it was my special holiday sandwich, lol.

Oh, sitting in the car at the Dover pub, under the big tree, having sandwiches and raspberries (the drink, nade in the bar and delivered to the car) every 2nd weekend of summer. Women weren't allowed inthe public bar, and there was no lounge area, so us kids & Mum stayed with the car, and Dad visited the bar.

This sounds awful (in terms of Dad going in & leaving us), but it really wasn't. One of Mum's friends would come down, and we would picnic under the tree. Then we'd walk up the hill for an icecream to eat on the way back down. Then we'd go on to Nanna's.

Summers and weekends at our beach house;
Playing in a beautiful creek with smooth stones in the bottom with my favourite cousins;
Carrying around a blue handbag of empty and half-empty perfume bottles my big sisters gave me and which I adored;
Drinking 'spiders' (softdrink with icecream) in the 'Seaview' cafe with by big sisters (again!)
Visiting our elderly neighbour on her farm on Sunday nights to take her to church (she was old and partially blind) where she would somehow manage to cook two sponge-cakes with cream and an assortment of slices and biscuits just for my mother, little sister and myself with severely limited eyesight and bodily movement. I would 'play' her grand piano and peer through her crystal cabinets at all the beautiful china, silverware and trinkets (including a little silver horse which she later gave me and which I still have) and she would feed us all sorts of goodies. She was a darling in the truest sense.

oh how i miss the beach house:shakehead: