Kibkom North Cyprus Forum

Mine was bonfire night where parents would gather with their kids and bring homemade toffee and jacket potato's done on the bonfire, then Christmas just round the corner and carolling with your friends. I could go on and on but I have to go to bed in another 6 or so hours, but lovely happy days.

One year when we had a huge amount of snow, we built an igloo on the play area, it was huge,about a dozen of us built it and we could all fit in with room to spare, we also had great fun climbing onto a garage roof and sliding off it into the snow, our parents would have had a fit if they saw what we were doing !

Bomb sites
Our playgrounds
Kennington Park
Staying out with mates
Late after dark

Cricket and football
In the street
5 stones and marbles
(Always got beat)

April showers
Space to roam
Sunday tea time at home

Six penny Pictures
Saturday morn
Grazed knees
Scuffed shoes
Trousers torn

Riding the 1 penny
Bus and tram
Very infrequently
A jar of jam
Could never have more
Post 2nd World War

On dad's back
To Lambeth Hospital
Still gives me a chill

Told we'd arrived
In the nick of time
2 hours later
I would have died

But I'm posting this
So yes....
I survived

As an only child for many years, going to stay with my family of 6 cousins in Somerset. Freedom and fun.

Happy to relate they are all still alive and kicking!

Swimming in the river Ettrick after making hay and riding horses during what seemed like long hot summers.

You guys must be young. I was stationed at RAF Ayios Nik and Pergamos between 1960 and 1962.

As I youngster I lived in Annan, Ettrick, and Dunkeld

Watching the Sunderland flying boats take off in Poole harbour and seeing my Dad come back home in 1945.

kaiserphil wrote:You guys must be young. I was stationed at RAF Ayios Nik and Pergamos between 1960 and 1962.

I was posted to 9SR at Ay Nik twice .......1983 - 86 then 1991 - 93. Best posting ever. Lived in Dhekelia first time round and then Pergamos second time. Happy happy days.

Wish I was young!

PoshinDevon wrote:

kaiserphil wrote:You guys must be young. I was stationed at RAF Ayios Nik and Pergamos between 1960 and 1962.

I was posted to 9SR at Ay Nik twice .......1983 - 86 then 1991 - 93. Best posting ever. Lived in Dhekelia first time round and then Pergamos second time. Happy happy days.

Wish I was young!

Have to agree Posh. Ay Nik was without doubt the best posting I ever had. Remember Smokey Joe's? Happy days

Not sure what happened to my previous post - my text disappeared!

Going back on Topic, I remember Summer days in Grt Driffield, my mates and I shaping pieces of wood , with our penknives, to make "tommyguns" and using old "pillboxes" at the edge of Farmer's fields to re-enact WW2 battles with the "Hun"!! What fun

The thing about the childhoods in the UK is that we did not have entertainment served on a plate - or a screen. We developed initiative, got plenty of fresh air and exercise and learned the value of money. I remember my father making me a farmyard complete with farmhouse and stables , barn etc. He bought one or two "starter" plastic animals but I have to save up pocket money for more, or wait for Christmas stocking fillers and Birthday presents. My mother taught me how to make furniture for the house, out of matchboxes and scraps of material.

Frozen Jubbly.

Yum yum!

Our dog Jenny - saved my life as a toddler. Stood and blocked my path to a busy road and barked until my mother came....
Pug shies - a game where you applied sticky mud to a long whippy stick and flung the mud over the roof tops onto unsuspecting pedestrians in the street on the other side of the houses - oh what fun!
Playing in flood meadows - into the River Wey and collecting newts and frogs and anything to gross-out my four sisters - getting loads of leeches stuck to my legs inadvertently in the process

New thread started...Cyprus Remembered.

For those of us already writing about Cyprus and remembering back to childhood years or those who were here a while ago, please post on the Cyprus Remembered thread. Suggestions have been made about gathering all these collective memories together and maybe getting them into print.

This thread is an attempt to see how many people would be interested in contributing and possibly now it could happen.

So if you were someone who may have lived, worked or been on the island either as a child or maybe working possibly between the 1950s - 1980s please post your memories on Cyprus Remembered.

This will leave this thread to be childhood memories......

In slow time I will move some of the threads that would clearly be better in Cyprus Remembered across.

Hope this makes sense