I think one of the first daydreams I had when I was pregnant with Daisy, was imagining her as a little girl, playing outside in the sunshine with her big brother. She’d be just a toddler, and he’d be proper little boy by that stage, and I’d sit, next to Mark, watching them laugh and play and explore.
Fast-forward on, and I have, especially in the last few weeks, been witness to that very scene, several times. And I think it’s probably one of the loveliest parts of having children – watching them explore the world and get muddy knees, or leaves in their hair. The occasional scratch or graze typical of a great adventure had. And those flushed pink cheeks that you can only get with time in the fresh air.
When the weather is lovely, as it has been in the past few weeks (not every day mind, we do live in the North remember), we’ve been been outside at every opportunity. Bill and Daisy have been in the paddling pool, more than once. They have played in the little play area we’ve made in one part of the garden. Bill has been down at the brook that runs through the bottom of our garden, spotting little bits of wildlife and playing pooh sticks. We have eaten outside. BBQs. Picnics. Ice lollies. Or simply just ignoring the dining table inside that day, and bringing food out to eat, because why not?
We went fruit picking last weekend at a local fruit farm. And we’ve been to farms, gone for walks to feed the ducks. And even just gone to a local coffee shop to have a drink in the sunshine.
But we don’t even need the sunshine to get outdoors. We love a good wintery walk when the grass is all crisp underfoot. And we make glittery autumn leaf garlands every year, by going on a leaf hunt for the most beautiful leaves we can find and decorating them when we get home (you can see how we make those leaf garlands here).
Obviously, whatever the weather, getting outdoors with little ones always requires a few necessities. Sun cream for when it’s warm. Sun hats. Swimming costumes. A paddling pool – ours is only cheap. Woolly hat, gloves or mittens when the weather is cool. And wellies for rain. A good rain coat too. And not forgetting a few plasters, just in case!
As well as that, something we’ve had in our house from the get-go, and something I remember using as a child, is Germolene. I’m sure you’ll have heard of it, especially as a parent, but Germolene is used to ease pain and help prevent infections of minor cuts and grazes, minor burns, scalds, blisters, stings and insect bites, spots and chapped or rough skin. So it’s a great all-rounder and a staple for any outdoor adventure.
Now, we’re an outdoorsy family anyway, but Gemolene asked us to try the ‘Smartphone to Scooter’ challenge recently, and exhange 30 minutes a day of technology time, for a little bit of outdoor fun instead. So we’ve really tried to make the most of every second. The good weather has helped. But even a quick trip to the park after school has mean that my son, Bill, who is five, has come home feeling happy and tired-out and eager for his tea, which actually made the whole bedtime process easier.
The same goes for Daisy – she may only be 14 months-old, but a little time outdoors, exploring, seeing new things and having her sense stimulated, means that, come bedtime, we don’t have that usual fight, she happily has a bath to wash of all the dirt from the day, and happily goes to sleep.
So, in celebration of getting outdoors more as a family, particularly with the summer holidays coming up, I’ve partnered with Germolene to host an amazing giveaway inspired to help you have more fun in the great outdoors. It’s a family hamper, worth £250, full of things to enjoy outside, along with a Polaroid camera to capture your memories. All you need to do is enter via Rafflecopter below (T&Cs here), by leaving me a comment below sharing your favourite outdoor memory from your childhood. That’s all there is to it!
*PR Collaboration – thank you for Gemolene for working with me on this post and for this amazing giveaway!
287 Comments
Cheryl
26th July 2017 at 11:11 amCaravan holidays and catching all types of beasties as pets!
Grace Findlay
26th July 2017 at 11:11 amWhat an amazing giveaway, I’ve been dying for a Polaroid camera for the longest time!
My daughter is 19 months and, much like Daisy, loves nothing more than being outside and it always makes bedtime an absolute DREAM! xx
Zoe
26th July 2017 at 11:11 amThanks Charlotte iv entered !! Loved my family outings rinding our bikes down midewood way!!
Grace Findlay
26th July 2017 at 11:13 amHa! I forgot to write the most important bit 🙈
I used to absolutely adore going bug hunting with my little brother and sister, we used to keep snails in cardboard boxes and feed them grass so they didn’t die 😂 Xx
Charlotte Cook
26th July 2017 at 11:14 amLove your blog, have entered the competition xx
Lisa Dixon
26th July 2017 at 11:15 am•My favourite childhood outdoor memory• It would have to be an impromptu camping trip with my family. I think I’d be about 6. There was me, my 2 older brothers, my parents and 2 dogs. We drove up the Northumberland coast from our caravan and decided to stop off for the night. We had a 2 man tent with us. We camped in some tunes (you could do that in the 80s). My dad had put the seats down in the car, for my brothers to sleep in and I was in the tent with my parents. Þhe dogs were also in the car. Dad woke in the night to discover we were raining in, so all 5 people and 2 dogs ended up in the car. It’s memories like that, that stick with you. Family time ♡
Koren
26th July 2017 at 11:16 amAll the family down in a caravan in Cornwall. We would always stay near Looe and spend days strolling around places like Polperro looking in the little shops then the whole family would go and play bingo in the evening, typically British caravan park holiday!!!
Rachel
26th July 2017 at 11:17 amWe used to camp on a cliff top every summer and go sailing – I still remember the smell of the sea and grass when we opened the car door when we arrived and I looked forward to that moment every year!
Michelle
26th July 2017 at 11:17 amI used to make a course of jumps in the garden and pretend I was showjumping on a horse 🙈😂
Caroline Bernard
26th July 2017 at 11:17 amI remember running through sprinklers in the park on a very sunny day and going home wet as a little child
Kayley
26th July 2017 at 11:18 amI have such happy memories of going fruit picking. We took Harry for the first time a few weeks ago and it was so magical to relive it as a parent 🙂
Laura moore
26th July 2017 at 11:22 amMy favourite memory is of me and my Dad. When we were little our family used to go to the south of France every summer for a week but I was terrified of flying and my brother was too naughty to be in the car for 2 days! So me and my dad would drive and my mum would fly with my brother! It was the only times I got to spend quality time just me and my Dad. We used to sing Bruce Springsteen at the top of our voices. Eat naughty food my mum would have never let us have and we’d play games the whole way. Our journey was the best bit of my holiday and I was always a bit sad when we arrived and I had to share my Dad with everyone else. He passed away when I was 21 so I miss him terribly but I have great memories of those times to make me smile.
Victoria green
26th July 2017 at 11:27 amLove love loved helping my grandma plant her boarders up …….whenever I see a snap dragon I’m taken back to summer days of being a child and not having a care in the world xxxx
Love reading your blogs and watching your vlogs xxxxx
Jamie sprought
26th July 2017 at 11:31 amMy favourite outdoor memories were going to the local forest and having hours swinging on the trees and chasing after the dogs or playing football….. I do same now with 2 girls… prescious memories captured on camera to be looked at over the years to come
Kath Savage
26th July 2017 at 11:32 amI have lots of memories of holidays from when I was younger. it was just me, my brother and my mum growing up, we used to go on holiday with my gran every year. We would set off really early to the airport, the girls would all have matching knitted shawls, my brother would eat endless free ice creams, and all of these are special memories that will stay with me forever. I always think of these special times when planning my family holidays, and hope my kids make memories forever.
Wendy Botwe
26th July 2017 at 11:34 amHappy memories of playing cricket with the whole family (and any neighbours or anyone else who happened to be around) on summers evenings when I was a kid.
Steph G
26th July 2017 at 11:37 amMy favourite outdoor memory is probably from bonfire night, my mum used to take me and we’d be wrapped up all warm drinking hot chocolate and watching the local fireworks display, something I always do with my children now too x
Lynn Heath
26th July 2017 at 11:38 amI used to love building dens and climbing trees with my sisters!
Sarah Dell
26th July 2017 at 11:39 amI love remembering childhood summer holidays. The summer holidays seemed to last forever and I always remember them being sunny (though knowing London I’m sure this can’t have been the case). Id be outdoors all day making picnics for my dolls and teddies and I’d look for fairies at the bottom of the garden (I felt that if you looked long enough and truly believed then they would appear – sadly they never did). I’d also make perfume from lavender and rose petals, it never smelt that nice but I kept experimenting. Now I have a daughter of my own and I can’t wait to spend some quality time with her. We won’t be going away anywhere but beautiful memories can be made near home and for free. I could really do with that Polaroid Camera to capture these special moments.
Joe smith
26th July 2017 at 11:40 amBbqs on the Beach.
Sandra Jack
26th July 2017 at 11:41 amMy favourite outdoor childhood memory was when my mum and dad would take me and my Siblings to the Lake District to stay in my Aunties caravan! I loved every minute, from collecting conkers to walking up the biggest hill to fly our kites! There’s nothing like the great outdoors!
Caroline Ward
26th July 2017 at 11:41 amMy favourite outdoor memory is going camping with family and our neighbours. I still love camping now, as long as there are some decent showers nearby! Xx
Amber
26th July 2017 at 11:52 amA favourite memory? Summers in the New Forest with my grandparents. Nothing compares, really, and I want to give my four that so badly one day,
Victoria Billington
26th July 2017 at 11:56 amI used to love stomping through the fields in my wellies on long family walk
Kali LaPrade
26th July 2017 at 12:02 pmWe would always Go camping in the mountains! Taking along our camper, food to cook over the fire and fishing poles!
Emma
26th July 2017 at 12:05 pmMost Sundays we would as a family go for walks in the country side along the canal, or occasionally go for bike rides. I have memories of racing down a steep hill just outside my house which usually ended up in someone falling off their bike 😂😂
Katy Abbott
26th July 2017 at 12:05 pmMy favourite childhood summer memory is my 3 sisters and me and mum and dad went camping one year (like we did every year). It rained everyday, so we decided to leave early. When we packed up the tent it was so wet there frogs under our tent. On the plus side the owner gave us another free week when it was drier later on in the summer. I miss my family camping trips
Kimberley | Oh Just My Little Blog
26th July 2017 at 12:19 pmMaking mud pies in the garden! And the days when Mum or Dad could be off work to spend the day with us. Oh and holidays to France with the extended family x
Aimee kelsey
26th July 2017 at 12:25 pmMy favourite childhood memory is playing with my sister in a cardboard box in my grandads garden . One random Saturday he had a large empty cardboard box, we asked if we could use it. We had so much fun. It was a boat, a plane, car, bus etc. after that Saturday, when ever the weather was ok, he always made sure we had a box to play with when we visited.
Ems West
26th July 2017 at 12:36 pmMy favourite outdoor memory is long family summer walks along the canal so me and my brother could spot all the wildlife and then stopping at a nearby pub that had a massive garden and playpark.
We’d burn off all our energy playing in the park and then stop for an ice cold lemonade, If we were lucky the fish man would stop by and we would sit eating prawns sprinkled with vinegar on the benches.
Amelia Hopkins
26th July 2017 at 12:41 pmMy favourite outdoor memory as a child is getting to play with my friends in my back garden making mud pies and playing with water balloons. We used to spend so much time playing in the garden. My children love playing outside.
Hayley
26th July 2017 at 12:47 pmHi Charlotte love watching you YouTube channel and ready your blogs. You are a true inspiration and I relate to you all the time as a mum. My favourite childhood memory would be playing in my back garden with my sisters and mum in the summer, we would play shops and walk up and down the path with our dolls in buggies all day until it got to late to be out there. I sometimes wish I could go back. It looking forward to reliving it with my own boys.
Ellie Robinson
26th July 2017 at 12:48 pmEating picnics in the boot of the car and now doing the same with the boys. It’s so special recreating those special memories with your own little ones xx
Laura
26th July 2017 at 12:49 pmYay, a giveaway! My favourite memory is being on holiday at my Nan and Granf’s in Dorset. Making ‘food’ in the garden which actually consisted of dirt, stones and whatever else we could find and climbing trees (sometimes getting stuck and calling one of the adults to help 😂) ☺️ I have a 21 month old who has only just got the hang of walking (after almost a year of physiotherapy) but now he’s more mobile we’ve been having so much fun outdoors, he loves exploring! X
Bethany Irving
26th July 2017 at 12:58 pmMy favourite memory has to be with my neighbour. We collected rose petals and mushed them with water to make our own perfume and then tried to get everyone to try it… we also got ice cream tubs, put sticks and soil and leaves in it and collect ladybirds 🙂 so much fun xx
Kate Fever
26th July 2017 at 1:00 pmWe used to build dams in the stream. Happy times
Lottie Hayman
26th July 2017 at 1:06 pmMy favourite outdoor memory was making big art attacks in the garden with my brother!!
Becky Reed
26th July 2017 at 1:08 pmLovely blog post! I love watching your vlogs
My favourite childhood memory is playing swingball in our tiny garden with my sister and the tennis ball always used to fly off into next doors garden and my dad had to climb over the wall to get it back from our elderly neighbours 😂
Ruth Ebenezer
26th July 2017 at 1:25 pmLove your blog and YouTube channel! Have just started slimming world to loose my baby weight ( little boy is 12weeks old) and your videos are so helpful thankyou!!
My favourite childhood memory is going camping each summer to Newgale beach in west wales. We can’t wait to start this tradition with our little boy 🙂 xx
Stephanie Connell
26th July 2017 at 1:28 pmMy favourite outdoor memory as a child is picking Bluebells in the garden and giving them to my mum & dad as a present! I also used to love chauffeuring my younger sister around in my red and yellow Cosy Coupe. I really miss that car and can’t wait for my little boy to be big enough to drive his!! ❤️
Sophie Durrans
26th July 2017 at 1:32 pmI love reading your blog, Charlotte! My favourite memory would be going for a walk with my cousin’s when we were only little, and my cousin falling in the brook. None of us could stop laughing, and he was just sat there in the water, dripping from head to toe!
Mel
26th July 2017 at 1:49 pmI’ve so many good memories from being outside in the summer, mostly because I lived down south and I swear it was sunny every single day! We just used to play outside from morning until it went dark, literally climbing trees and riding our bikes to the local ford/stream, swimming and swinging off the rope swing. Amazing childhood!
Heather Sharp
26th July 2017 at 1:50 pmMy favourite memory as a child definitely has to be going on day trips out to the beach, to theme parks, etc, with my parents. My dad worked alot when I was young, and so when he did have time off my parents made sure to plan a big day out for us. These days stick in my memories the most.
Catherine Raitt
26th July 2017 at 1:52 pmWow wee what a great giveaway! I love Polaroid pictures so it would be lovely to win the camera so I can do it at home!
One of my favourite childhood outdoor memories is playing on the school field in the snow. Taking our dog (Penny) with us. She was so little she had to follow in our footprints. Love a good snowball fight.
My little girl is 21 months and truly is an outside girl. She loves puddle jumping and pottering about outside and has recently got into scootering. Her brother (3) absolutely adores the outside. Big hunting is a current favourite!
Leighanne
26th July 2017 at 2:39 pmGoing camping, I hated the coldness but I have fond memories of having quality time with my family
Harriet Leonard
26th July 2017 at 2:43 pmMy favourite outdoor childhood memory has to be sneaking into my grandad’s allotment and getting under the raspberry net, shovelling as many as I could into my mouth! I felt like Peter Rabbit!
Jenny mortimer
26th July 2017 at 2:54 pmMy fave outdoor memory of my childhood is going looking for tadpoles in the local stream and watching the little frogs jump all over the place. Many a happy day was spent down by the stream.
Laura edwards
26th July 2017 at 3:21 pmFavourite childhood memories are fishing days with my parents. Lugging bags and cool boxes (my Mum makes a killer picnic!) xacross fields full of cows, across railway tracks, through stinging nettles. Just so Dad could get the perfect swim. So lucky to have had such lovely days. Even luckier to now watch my Dad share them with my children.
Clare nicholas
26th July 2017 at 4:03 pmI remember drenching my parents when I was in the paddling pool and forcing them to get in too. Now my kids do this to me
Claire
26th July 2017 at 4:03 pmI grew up in a village by the sea so my favourite memories are at the beach, everyday during the holidays we would be there making sand castles & crab fishing! Now I have a 2 year old daughter and do the same with her which is amazing xxx
Lyndsey
26th July 2017 at 4:54 pmI love the smell of germolene (is that weird?). This has reminded me I need to sort out our medicine cabinet and first aid packs.
Alanna
26th July 2017 at 4:56 pmMemory of being younger outdoors.
The time when at primary school, in my summer dress, I’d roll down a hill as fast as I could. Only lasted a few seconds but felt like a long time and feeling completely carefree and elated.
To end up at the bottom breathless, with grass in my hair…to run up and do it all again.
Laura duffy
26th July 2017 at 5:02 pmMy favourite memory was learning to ride my bike with my big brother and going to the beach!
Lara
26th July 2017 at 5:22 pmIm rrally terrible with my childhood memories, not sure if I’ve blocked some of it out, but it makes me even more determined to document the boys growing up and giving them some amazing experiences to look back on 😍 Enjoy the summer guys! Xx
Fiona
26th July 2017 at 5:23 pmCamping in the garden, best fun ever!
Ritchie
26th July 2017 at 5:31 pmPicnics on the beach.
Paul Caine
26th July 2017 at 5:48 pmLooks good. Have entered thank you!
Jo Richards
26th July 2017 at 5:51 pmbeing pushed on the swings by my Mum and holding my Lambie, I must of only been about 4
barbara Daniels
26th July 2017 at 5:53 pmplaying runoutd in the seventies ans eighties with all the kids on our estate
kate hester
26th July 2017 at 5:58 pmCelebrating the Royal Jubilee in our street – everyone running around having fun with all the flags out.
stuart hargreaves
26th July 2017 at 5:59 pmvisiting blackpool for the first time all that sand and the donkeys
maureen findley
26th July 2017 at 5:59 pmI lived in a tight knit community and all the children joined up on a central park and played british bull dog
Tracy Nixon
26th July 2017 at 6:01 pmSleeping in our tent in our back garden over the Summer – me and my brother loved it and my dad often sneaked up on us late at night to scare us lol!
Simon LC
26th July 2017 at 6:02 pmGoing to visit my Nanna and Grandad who lived by the seaside
Sidrah Ahmed
26th July 2017 at 6:03 pmI loved going to the park and playing on my scooter
David Paterson
26th July 2017 at 6:04 pmLying hidden in tall grass and brambles in a old overgrown disused railway cutting, listening to the buzz of the bees in the summer sun.
Margaret Clarkson
26th July 2017 at 6:07 pmGoing for long walks in the woods with my cousins
Sharon Worsley
26th July 2017 at 6:13 pmgoing out to play in the morning and not returning until the evening but you always had to be within shouting distance of your mum
Shelly semmens
26th July 2017 at 6:13 pmThere was a big hill where we lived. It had a pond, a tyre swing, apple trees and some ponies. It was a great place to picnic and have fun.
Gillian Holmes
26th July 2017 at 6:15 pmPlaying in the garden with the kids from next door
Komal Qasim
26th July 2017 at 6:16 pmPlaying cricket with my cousins 🙂
Lucy
26th July 2017 at 6:21 pmGoing on long walks with my family and our dog 🙂
frances hopkins
26th July 2017 at 6:22 pmUsed to love going to West Wittering with mum and dad
Fiona King
26th July 2017 at 6:50 pmMy favourite outdoor memory was when my parents gave me a go-kart and I was able to go outside and play with it every day and be the envy of the neighbours
Julie Smith
26th July 2017 at 6:50 pmBig Family outings to Foxhouse walking through the field, climbing over the rocks, leaping from one to another. Sitting together and having a picnic before playing tig with cousins and siblings and dogs 🙂 xx
Then we’d walk back home, on hot days through the river with the dogs splashing around.
Liz R
26th July 2017 at 6:53 pmWalks by the sea, paddling in the sea and wet, excited dogs!
Natalie Virtue
26th July 2017 at 7:00 pmI think my favourite memory is playing on a rope swing all summer long in our garden. My stepdad put it up for us when we were very small and I loved it. It hung from a big old tree and when I went past my family home recently the new owners had chopped it down. I didn’t feel sad because it’s time for a new family to make memories in that garden now. They won’t include my old rope swing but they’ll be just as special in 20 years to the family that live there now.
Karen Barrett
26th July 2017 at 7:01 pmI spent a lot of time with my grandparents when I was young. They had a pen out the backs and I loved to go and feed the chucks with corn and peelings. But the best time was sitting with Grandad and Uncle Tom waiting for the racing pigeons to come home.
Soph h
26th July 2017 at 7:01 pmPaddling in the sea and making sandcastles
Tania Atfield
26th July 2017 at 7:15 pmSailing with my mum, dad and sisters off Devon and seeing dolphins near us.
Helen W
26th July 2017 at 7:19 pmGoing rambling with my parents and brother.
Kate Toner
26th July 2017 at 7:27 pmI used to love making perfumes and potions with petals and leaves!
Laura Milton
26th July 2017 at 7:30 pmThe hose pipe sitting at the top of our garden slide and a tub of fairy liquid brought all the best memories 😀
Emily Clark
26th July 2017 at 7:33 pmFinding jellyfish on the beach with my family!
laura banks
26th July 2017 at 7:52 pmhaving massive waterfights down our street with all my friends
Jacqui Graham
26th July 2017 at 7:55 pmmy favourite childhood memory is in a caravan in Great Yarmouth, with my mum dad, sister and dog, we spend all day on the beach, made silly faces out of pebbles, and in the morning heard the seagulls running up and down the caravan roof. We had little money but lots of laughter and love.
Katie Howell
26th July 2017 at 7:58 pmGoing blackberry and apple picking with my mum all over the place and then turning them into jams and ice lollys – mmmm
Fozia Akhtar
26th July 2017 at 8:00 pmPlaying rounders
sarah bourner
26th July 2017 at 8:08 pmmaking camp in the graveyard we even had separate loo area with toilet roll! cooked backed beans on a campfire until my dad came running over saying he could see the smoke from my house fun times 🙂
Christine Shelley
26th July 2017 at 8:12 pmGoing Blackberrying with my mum and brothers and sisters
Janice
26th July 2017 at 8:17 pmgoing down the coast with my sisters
MM
26th July 2017 at 8:25 pmThose summer holidays that seemed to go on forever. Family holidays to the beach, and spending agaes playing in the sea and sand dunes.
Kristy Brown
26th July 2017 at 8:31 pmWen used to go for long walks every saturday and I remember my mum sliding off a log into the stream below
Kelly Glen
26th July 2017 at 8:38 pmI used to love playing in my Wendy house in our garden.
Katharine Balyuzi
26th July 2017 at 8:46 pmFlying kites on Hampstead Heath
Rachael G
26th July 2017 at 8:53 pmMaking mud pies in the garden
DEBBIE DAVIES
26th July 2017 at 9:03 pmI loved being in the back garden talking to my teddies and dolls and pretending to be the teacher. I had 3 older sisters who didnt wanna play with me unless it was to fuss me so i had a lot of time interacting with teddy bears!! xx
Kirsty Taylor
26th July 2017 at 9:05 pmMy favourite outdoor memory as a child was having a yellow plastic mac and hat and matching Wellington boots (think Paddington bear and you’re on the right lines) and going out in the pouring rain to jump in puddles!!
I cannot wait to get my little man a similar outfit and make the most of the drizzly north….just as soon as he can walk (and therefore jump in puddles!).
Polly
26th July 2017 at 9:13 pmTurning my mums washing generally bedding into tents when they were drying on the line, so much fun, mum didn’t always agree.
rowena claydon-smith
26th July 2017 at 9:13 pmMy earliest memory is making a tent using the sheets that were drying on the line and then blaming my brother
Madeleine Kleinhofs
26th July 2017 at 9:16 pmMy favourite childhood memory is of climbing trees and building dens in the woods behind our street 🙂
Rebecca Brown
26th July 2017 at 9:16 pmI remember going to a park near where we lived really early in the morning and there being hundreds of wild bunnies sitting all over the grass. There was a little stream nearby and we had a dawn picnic before anyone else was up and about. Definitely worth the moaning about being tired all n the way there (for me at least 😂)
Lisa Parker
26th July 2017 at 9:16 pmI remember making ‘camps’ with my brother behind the sofa when I was little x
Marycarol
26th July 2017 at 9:21 pmCamping in the garden with brothers and sister – not much sleep but lots of fun xx
Hollie Headland
26th July 2017 at 9:26 pmMine would be collecting conkers in the autumn with my dad xx
Leila Benhamida
26th July 2017 at 9:26 pmMy parents had Spanish friends in thr South of France which own a big land with a lot of chestnut trees. We use to visit in September and pick up chestnuts and roas or boil them afterwards. Was really great.
Lucinda
26th July 2017 at 9:27 pmI used to love collecting snails and bugs in a glass jar and trying to keep them as pets. Every night my dad would free them all and tell me they escaped and i’d have start again. I remember i collected lots of ladybirds once in a shoe box and i went in for my lunch and when i came back they were all mating! haha x
Sarah N
26th July 2017 at 9:38 pmMy mum taking me and my friends for afternoons on the beach. She’d sit there reading and we’d run off and play.
Fiona B
26th July 2017 at 9:42 pmWalking in the woods by my Gran and Grandad’s house
Bob Clark
26th July 2017 at 9:45 pmfeeding pigeons in Trafalgar square – when I was very young
Laura Linsey
26th July 2017 at 9:49 pmFeeding the ducks
Leah
26th July 2017 at 9:51 pmSqueezing through the gap in our fence and playing in my neighbours garden! X
Mariel Pereira
26th July 2017 at 9:54 pmWalking with my father along the river bank to the lighthouse in Mombasa early in the morning at sunrise
Heather Hibbert
26th July 2017 at 10:13 pmGoing fishing with my dad along Blackpool seafront, I was always very tomboyish, my brother was never interested!
julie henderson
26th July 2017 at 10:18 pmcollecting rose petals and making *perfume”
Lani Nash
26th July 2017 at 10:20 pmI remember visiting my grandparents as a kid and taking picnics in local park lands
Claire Blakeley
26th July 2017 at 10:25 pmbbqs
Zoe C
26th July 2017 at 10:26 pmtaking my farm set outside and wrecking my mum’s flower beds!! I would set it all up and remember her constantly telling me to watch the plants, she let me carry on though, I loved it
Lee Ritson
26th July 2017 at 10:31 pmAlways going to the local park to play. The park I now take my daughter to 🙂
Caroline H
26th July 2017 at 10:32 pmAs a child we lived on the coast for a few years. The beach was beautiful and is still listed as one of the best in the UK. Times were a little different and the kids were free to go down, armed with a picnic lunch, and muck about all day.
Vicki D
26th July 2017 at 10:43 pmIt has to be staying in a caravan by the sea with my parents and grandparents. We went to the same spot every year without fail. I made so many friends and have great childhood memories of that little caravan.
Becky Duffy
26th July 2017 at 10:57 pmMaking a fort with my cousins and brother in the summer holidays, so much fun!
Paula Gwynne
26th July 2017 at 11:25 pmSpending my summer at my nan’s house with my brothers and sister
Solange
27th July 2017 at 12:11 amWe had recently moved and our house was filled with cardboard boxes as my parents unpacked household goods. They had decided to invite the entire neighbourhood for a barbecue on the spur of the moment and spent all night assembling the millions of cardboard boxes into a castle in the garden, complete with a drawbridge, turrets, windows and doors that opened and closed, and a dragon drawn with a sharpie by my very artistic dad.
The castle was huge…in my memory, it covered almost the entire garden, with enough tunnels and courtyards and towers for 30+ kids at a time. It was also a complete surprise! They did the entire thing after my little brother and I had gone to bed, cutting and taping and drawing by flashlight.
Elizabeth Drake
27th July 2017 at 12:22 amI have some of the best memories from either camping trips or our family trips to Disney World. We went twice when I was a kid and one of them involved camping. I long to be able to take my girls camping and to Disney as well. It’s been a big dream of mine since before my oldest was even born.
Emily Downes
27th July 2017 at 12:30 amhaving lots of toy sales outside our front garden!
Parading around our road with shoe boxes with teddys dressed up sat in them having a teddy parade with recorders and whistles!! Hahaha!
melanie stirling
27th July 2017 at 1:19 amWhen I was young I used to go out all day on my bike and ride around the lanes and through the fords.I loved being on my own,I felt so free!
Brett Pereira
27th July 2017 at 6:30 amPlaying in the stream at the bottom of our garden and sitting on the branches of the guava trees we had
Phil Darling
27th July 2017 at 6:37 amRiding my skateboard round and round the Cul de sac outside my house
Hali Kinson
27th July 2017 at 6:40 amPlaying at a local park
Emma Gibson
27th July 2017 at 7:34 amBeing on holiday with my whole family and playing in the pool.
Jess Maccio
27th July 2017 at 8:07 amPlaying out with my dog and coming home for tea or when it got dark!
Darren
27th July 2017 at 8:39 amunplanned trips to the beach, especially in the evening, used to love the sense of adventure and the treat of staying up late to have fun
Emily Knight
27th July 2017 at 8:52 amIt was going down to the local park with my brother and our friends and attempting to build a treehouse…we never got very far with it!
Becky Yeomans
27th July 2017 at 9:04 amMine has to be filling about 100+ water balloons up ready for the next day for my brothers and sister to have a water fight. Took us all day that day to fill the balloons up we put them in a pool ready. We had the water fight and water logged the grass. Grass was ruined lol.
Michelle Hall
27th July 2017 at 9:47 amPlaying hide and seek in the forest at the bottom of the street, Unfortuntley they’ve built houses on there now but I have so many good memories!
Ellie F
27th July 2017 at 9:51 amMine would be running around our garden with my brother and sister. They were both older than me and had pointy plastic swords they used to chase me with. I loved it! Now I have two boys of my own and when the second is older (5 months now) I can’t wait to watch them tear round our garden like we used to.
Hannah Wood
27th July 2017 at 9:55 amI remember riding bikes around my my brother in the Summer time
Chris Bull
27th July 2017 at 10:08 amBlackberry picking with my auntie, stained fingers and scratches from the prickles but such tasty fun 🙂
Stephanie Coals
27th July 2017 at 11:23 amMy favourite memory is going to the isle of wight on holiday and playing on the beach all day then going back to where we were staying and spending the evening in the grounds and swimming in the pool
Rachel Kendall
27th July 2017 at 11:36 amAwaiting the one day per month when I would see my brother who lived overseas, He was my best friend growing up and this one day a month was so special to me! We would do all sorts, the Zoo, Shopping, Ice Skating you name it!
Alexandra oliver
27th July 2017 at 11:37 amcamping in cornwall and having a seagull steal a pasty from my hands!
clair downham
27th July 2017 at 12:20 pmplaying pooh sticks
Jade Hewlett
27th July 2017 at 12:35 pmMy favourite memory is going for walks with my grandad and we’d stop at the beach, see the animals or have an ice cream.
Jill Donaldson
27th July 2017 at 1:35 pmClimbing trees in my Nans garden then running in for lunch
Maggie Coates
27th July 2017 at 1:49 pmRiding my bike with friends
Emily Hutchinson
27th July 2017 at 2:13 pmpaddling pool in the garden
jemma taylor
27th July 2017 at 2:32 pmIn our garden when i was little we had a great big apple tree that we used to love to climb and make dens with. One day my best friend was up the tree and fell off and ended up breaking her arm. We still laugh now with her joking saying i pushed her. A couple of week later i was playing at the park with my brother and friends and i fell over landing on my arm. It wasn’t until the next morning i had to go to hospital and found out i too had broken my arm.
Ann-Marie Gould
27th July 2017 at 3:15 pmmy favourite memory is playing cricket out in the street with my sisters and cousins. We used an old tin bin with lid and the wicket and a jumper for the bowler. Every time traffic was coming someone shouted ‘car’ and we all had to stand to the side of the road. Lovely memories!
Lorraine Kirk
27th July 2017 at 5:19 pmI camped out with my friend in the garden when I was about 7 years old. We heard a voice late at night and thought we had burglars but it turned out to be the next door neighbour taking her Siamese cat for late night walk. It was my first taste of freedom and independence.
Elizabeth Rawcliffe
27th July 2017 at 5:22 pmFlying my kite on the beach and then having a picnic!
Corina Mann
27th July 2017 at 5:55 pmI have happy fond memories of hanging out in the park opposite my old house, as children we were so lucky to have such beauty right across the road. We could never be bothered to walk all the way round to the entrance gate, we made our own entrance by tunnelling under the railings, lol. We would spend so much time hopping over the brook, climbing and swinging from trees and cycling my bike round the park seeing how many laps I could do.
I don’t know if I’m being protective or if it’s the society we now live in but can’t imagine letting my children out of my sight, even when they’re teenagers I’ll be following them close behind. I’m not ready to let them into the big wide world.
rebecca h
27th July 2017 at 6:45 pmHas to be from when we used to go caravanning! so many memories of exploring woods and fields and tearing around sites on my bike. one particular memory of playing football with my brother and cousins is always guaranteed to make me smile.
Anthony Harrington
27th July 2017 at 9:13 pmwalking along the seaside promenade eating chips in the evening, feeling very excited at being up so late, it was probably only about 8pm but it was a treat!
Hanna Marshall
27th July 2017 at 9:13 pmMy favourite memory is being glued to my big sister and wanting to go everywhere with her. She got a moped and took me along on many adventures, although it was a bit bumpy on the back.
Jo Carroll
27th July 2017 at 9:14 pmIt’s probably riding around the council estate I grew up on…on my Raleigh Chopper bike with it’s pink tassles – thinking I just looked so cool? 😉
emma walters
28th July 2017 at 6:38 amspending hours out on my bike, finding the biggest hill to ride down 🙂
Rich Tyler
28th July 2017 at 1:41 pmPlaying fairy liquid slides in the summer in garden
Alica
28th July 2017 at 3:11 pmI loved having water fights with all my friends with old washing up liquid bottles! 🙂
Lori Darling
28th July 2017 at 3:37 pmMessing about on the river.
Doreen Brady
28th July 2017 at 5:29 pmMine would have to be going down to the beach and collecting shells then going home and making ‘art’ with them. I still have a photo frame that I made years ago.
sarah birkett
28th July 2017 at 7:03 pmPLAYING in the woods for hours, hide & seek, dens, everything
Tammy Tudor
28th July 2017 at 8:05 pmCollecting conkers with my dad in the woods
Ashleigh Allan
28th July 2017 at 8:37 pmGoing on bike rides with my dad
Helen Tovell
28th July 2017 at 8:38 pmGoing on lazy day bike rides with a group of friends
Lyn Burgess
28th July 2017 at 9:55 pmI remember huge family picnics, with lots and lots of cousins, playing rounders or cricket, having so much fun.
Amy Wharton
28th July 2017 at 10:12 pmI have so many happy outdoor memories from my childhood but some of my favourites are making mud pies out the front of my house or stopping off for picnics and the chance to run around any time that we took a long car journey!
Jodie A Green
28th July 2017 at 11:15 pmplaying on the park over Cannock Chase after a picnic with my parents – now i do this with my 6 children and they ,love it just as much
Debbie Gilbert
29th July 2017 at 12:15 amHolidays at our caravan, playing in the woods and trying to catch tiny shrimp in the stream
kRIS
29th July 2017 at 11:32 amFamily holidays
Naila
29th July 2017 at 12:56 pmRiding bikes with my sisters, and picnics were so fun.
Toni Arnott
29th July 2017 at 1:58 pmseeing comets in the sky on the norfolk coast
Fiona Rennie
29th July 2017 at 2:49 pmGoing for bike rides along what used to be a railway line a long time ago
Allan Smith
29th July 2017 at 4:37 pmGoing to Blackpool!
Natalie
29th July 2017 at 8:32 pmRunning through the garden with my dogs and playing with the hose with them ☺️
Jade Saban
30th July 2017 at 8:20 pmKerbie!
Lisa Wilkinson
30th July 2017 at 9:07 pmGoing for walks in the countryside with my parents
Helen Grayson
30th July 2017 at 10:20 pmGoing for bike rides – on the back of my dad’s bike. Then going for a picnic
katrina walsh
30th July 2017 at 11:44 pmfun water fights with all the neighbourhood kids joining in
Kim Styles
31st July 2017 at 3:12 pmit seems random but I was in the garden for a house where I lived between the ages of 3 and 4 ,so I was very young ,and I was digging with my little marbled rubber bucket and spade and a big boy who lived nearby came up behind me and made me jump and I fell into the flowerbed- I think he must of regretted it because I screamed and screamed!
Kerry Kilmister
31st July 2017 at 4:25 pmI remember one summer holidays my parents took me and my 3 brothers on a beach holiday to Blackpool. We had the most amazing time exploring the arcades, and eating fish and chips out of newspaper whilst sat on the beach.
Elisabeth Ries
31st July 2017 at 9:56 pmOn really hot days, playing with the garden sprinkler, and inevitably getting soaked in water!
leanne weir
31st July 2017 at 10:50 pmI have such happy memories of going camping
Tee Simpson
31st July 2017 at 11:04 pmJust being able to play with my friends making mudpies, climbing walls and eating tip tops
Mel Turner
31st July 2017 at 11:33 pmwalking round the mill pond feeding the ducks
Susan Hoggett
1st August 2017 at 1:29 pmgoing to the local beach and having picnics and making sandcastles
Sarah Brokenshire
1st August 2017 at 3:03 pmI used to love playing curby on the street x
Amelia Mccreith
2nd August 2017 at 12:00 amI loved doing cartwheels and hand stands with my Granddad, and going into his green house to pick tomatoes!
kellyjo walters
2nd August 2017 at 8:52 amWe would go to Hyde Park, go feed the ducks and have picnics
Holly Edmundson
2nd August 2017 at 3:17 pmi use to love going to my grandmas and she would make me salad with chicken, doesnt sound much but it was amazing x
cheryl lovell
2nd August 2017 at 4:12 pmI loved countryside walks with my Grandma and her dog! They always finished with an ice-cream!
Helen Swales
2nd August 2017 at 4:28 pmMy grandad used to keep pigs and I remember walking down the lane to the river with my grandma to the pigs to give my grandad his lunch box. I can still vividly remember the smell!
Thomas L
2nd August 2017 at 5:45 pmFootball in the rain and building dens in trees and bushes and hiding in them when it started to pour down with rain so we didn’t have to go inside.
carrie hynes
2nd August 2017 at 8:10 pmPlaying in the field across from my house with my brother and friends.
Kerry Taylor
2nd August 2017 at 8:11 pmPicnics with my Nana during the school holidays.
Farhana
2nd August 2017 at 9:31 pmPicnics! All my fond memories revolve around different family picnics
Alison Johnson
3rd August 2017 at 12:39 amGoing to the seeside every year when I was a child & going rock pooling. I loved collecting shells.
nicola barter
3rd August 2017 at 12:43 pmseaside with my family 🙂
Karen Lloyd
3rd August 2017 at 8:23 pmPlaying at the local (shallow) river and setting up a rope swing over the water to play on.
Paula Phillips
3rd August 2017 at 10:09 pmPlaying over the mountain with a group of friends, we would go in the morning, take a picnic with us and come home in time for tea.
Zoey P
4th August 2017 at 6:57 amRocking pooling in Cornwall with my dad
Sarah Lee
4th August 2017 at 10:03 amPutting the tent up in the garden and camping out
Michaela Jennings
4th August 2017 at 12:59 pmWeekends at the caravan with all the family
Camilla Youngman
4th August 2017 at 5:28 pmMy grandad taking me out to walk his dogs in the countryside!
Brenda
4th August 2017 at 9:14 pmI grew up in Africa so one of the amazing benefits was acres of garden with plenty of trees! I would run around all day playing with our dogs, pretending I was in an Enid Blyton storybook and climbing trees. When I was bored of that, I would jump in the pool and create a whole other fantasy world about mermaids! It really was the most magical childhood and I consider myself very privileged 🙂
ASHLEIGH RYAN
4th August 2017 at 10:23 pmClimbing over rocks at the beach in Aberystwyth with my dad and finding caves.
Emma H
5th August 2017 at 11:25 amClimbing trees in the local wood with my friends.
Leanne Newsome
5th August 2017 at 2:33 pmMy best childhood memory is we used to camp out all summer as a whole street! All the kids in the street used to pitch our tents we’d have girls in one tent, boys in another. My mum used to make us all chips at midnight! We all had so much fun and we would camp out every night all the way through our school summer holidays
Ashley Phillips
5th August 2017 at 5:49 pmPlaying frisbee and crazy golf with my dad and brother at King Georges Playing Field
Kev C
5th August 2017 at 6:00 pmI remember riding my bike over ramps so I could be just like Evel Knievel 🙂
Elizabeth Cooke
5th August 2017 at 8:57 pmSwimming in a lake at in the lake district, my parents even got me an inflatable dingy and that was so much fun!
Emma Salter
5th August 2017 at 11:27 pmMy favourite outdoor memory is playing on the beach in Blackpool. It was always sunny when I was younger and we would spend all day there.
Tracey Belcher
6th August 2017 at 7:57 amGoing fishing with my dad – we used to love escaping from my mother and relaxing fishing together
Jade Wimsey
6th August 2017 at 11:13 amPlaying with the ‘crazy daisy’
Natalie White
6th August 2017 at 12:43 pmMine was having a BBQ in France on a summer holiday, and racing each other around the garden 🙂 By the way, you look fab – you’ve done so well on your diet, and you look so happy!! Both Bill and Daisy have grown so much 🙂 This is my fav blog to read by far – please never stop!
Hayley Gibson
6th August 2017 at 4:46 pmMy dad used to take me and my sister down by the river when we were kids. We used to catch minnows and crayfish. One time, I remember being so excited, I found all these little clay pots in the river bed.
:eanne
6th August 2017 at 7:00 pmTrips to Wales for ice cream, arcades ad walks along the pier.
Victoria Hemmings
6th August 2017 at 10:39 pmmy dad and I going to a park to feed red squirrels, one of the best memories
Marianna
6th August 2017 at 10:40 pmPlaying on the bales in my grandpa’s hayfield and in the creek
Michelle Carlin
6th August 2017 at 11:11 pmI loved searching for fairies in the garden. I was sure I could see them. I still have a fairy garden in my garden now!
claire little
6th August 2017 at 11:21 pmplaying in the garden
Victoria Morris
6th August 2017 at 11:37 pmPlaying out in the green with friends and cousins, hopscotch, skipping, it (tag) such lovely memories 🙂
Allison Sherwood
7th August 2017 at 6:46 amBlackberry picking down the old line
Sarah Parker
7th August 2017 at 7:11 amriding on my bike with my friends
Tasha
7th August 2017 at 8:15 amPlaying with my brother in the garden and building dens
Jenny Jones
7th August 2017 at 9:08 amwalking the dogs with my grandad he used to tell me all sorts of tales on those walks and it was so lovely
angela sandhu
7th August 2017 at 10:58 amLearning to ride a bike
Sarah R
7th August 2017 at 12:45 pmExploring on my Grandma’s farm with the dogs
Jeanette Davison
7th August 2017 at 1:26 pmPlaying in the woods making dens
BARBY MADDEN
7th August 2017 at 2:07 pmOn a weekend we would go a bike ride with my Dad to visit my Grandparents while my mom would cook the Sunday Lunch on the way back home we would stop at the pub and have a Lemonade and Dad would have a Shandy they where Happy Days
Lila Taylor
7th August 2017 at 3:09 pmWe lived in a small village in Devon as a child, my favourite memories are of playing out in the surrounding woods and fields,climbing trees, having apple fights & conker fights 😉 and scrumping for pears and apples. I really did have a charmed childhood & was hardly ever indoors except for school, meals and bedtime!
ADEINNE TONNER
7th August 2017 at 3:49 pmFor me it had to be going walks in the forest with my siblings and parents where we all attempted to carry lots of sticks and find bugs!
katie w
7th August 2017 at 5:37 pmmaking dens in the woods
Lisa King
7th August 2017 at 5:39 pmMy mum and dad owned a little chalet at Hemsby in Norfolk and we had so many amazing family days there as children with lots of great memories
MELANIE CRUMPTON
7th August 2017 at 5:41 pmHUNTING FOR FAIRIES IN THE GARDEN WITH MY DAD
Isabella
7th August 2017 at 7:07 pmDuring summer, making forts out of freshly cut hay up on the common where my nan used to live.
donna l jones
7th August 2017 at 7:09 pmgoing to dunstable downs to fly our kites
Jessica Hutton
7th August 2017 at 7:39 pmClimbing trees and building little dens with my friends xx
Dolly A
7th August 2017 at 7:48 pmGoing for long walks over the fields with the dog
joanne casey
7th August 2017 at 7:54 pmWe spent most weekends in the spring & summer in our caravan in Anglesey….such lovely memories
Maria Jane Knight
7th August 2017 at 7:54 pmI remember going “frogging” with my brother when we were little. We lived in the heart of the countryside and passed our time looking for frogs and collecting them to put in our pond!
HAYLEY TURNER
7th August 2017 at 8:02 pmPlaying piggy in the middle with my sister and her friend
Katy Malkin
7th August 2017 at 8:25 pmClimbing our tallest tree and looking out onto all the fields
Samantha Mann
7th August 2017 at 8:39 pmPlaying tea parties in the garden with my cousin
Sarah Wilson
7th August 2017 at 8:45 pmMine was walking on the fells behind our house with my Mum. I would climb trees, and play in the stream. I still take my boys there 🙂
izzy smith
7th August 2017 at 8:53 pmFUN AT THE BEACH XX
tammy westrup
7th August 2017 at 9:33 pmMaking dens in the garden with wind breaks and my dads large fishing umbrellas!
Emma Davison
7th August 2017 at 9:34 pmGoing on picnics
Helen-marie Porter
7th August 2017 at 10:06 pmwater fights in the back garden with the family it was the only time i ever remember my mum stopping doing the house work!
Rebekah Powley
7th August 2017 at 10:33 pmGoing kayaking along the coast of Scotland and having a bunch of seals come alongside and swim with us. I was 11 and I can remember it so vividly!
chirag patel
7th August 2017 at 10:35 pmdonkey riding on margate beach
Tracy Read
7th August 2017 at 11:19 pmPlaying with my friends outside – kick post was a firm fave!
Kay Broomfield
7th August 2017 at 11:23 pmEating sandwiches in a graveyard near my parent’s work! Different times lol
Heather Bowie
7th August 2017 at 11:31 pmI loved caravan holidays with my parents, my best outdoor memory was on one of these holidays spending all day climbing trees with my sister and new friends we had made, simple things.
Lydia Graham
7th August 2017 at 11:59 pmCatching sticklebacks in the brook at the back of the house
Deborah Bird
8th August 2017 at 12:04 amPlaying in the beck for hours with my friends!
jamie Millard
8th August 2017 at 12:04 amcamping with the scouts. twice. memorable times. from the trekking and exploring, the cooking, the adventures. great times.
ellie spider
8th August 2017 at 12:18 amcamping in west wales – driving down with the cat and the dog always got us funny looks!
Shelley Stevenson
8th August 2017 at 1:32 ami just LOVED playing in the sun as a child….getting the big paddling pool out and having water balloon fights with all my friends….ahhh to be young again <3
pauline black
8th August 2017 at 5:12 amriding our bikes up to the local woods and playing on the rope swing . Love the outdoors!
Lucy Robinson
8th August 2017 at 6:52 amI loved all our family camping trips. Rain and sun we experienced the lot.
Cathryn Crawshaw
8th August 2017 at 7:23 amcaravan holidays in wales with my mom and dad, finding crabs on beach, dancing in the tiger club
James Holyland
8th August 2017 at 9:02 amOur family beach side holidays at Skegness
Jacqueline Roberts
8th August 2017 at 10:16 amSitting in a wendy house with a toy sweet shop I had
Beth Owen
8th August 2017 at 11:30 am<y favourite childhood memory is visiting Betws Y Coed, playing football with my Dad and brother. No worries at all. Just making memories <3
Alisa Moore
8th August 2017 at 1:27 pmQuad rollerskating round and round the rose garden
Rachel Bonness
8th August 2017 at 1:44 pmGoing to the Brecon Beacons with my late father and climbing mountains and boating on the lake and going to the climbing centre. Such special, treasured memories!
kayleigh dudley
8th August 2017 at 2:16 pmi have fond memories of strawberry picking in the summer every Saturday before taking our punnet to my grans house. Unfortunately the strawberry fields are no longer there, and we have to travel considerably to do the same these days
Libby Noack
8th August 2017 at 2:25 pmVisiting my Nan and Grandad’s Caravan every School Holiday – we were always outside 🙂
mary chez
8th August 2017 at 3:51 pmMy dad was head green keeper on a golf course and one of my best memories was when I used to sit on the tractor with him when he cut the grass on the fairways….I expect elf and safety would be after us these days
Andrea A
8th August 2017 at 4:48 pmMy favourite outdoor memory as a child is looking for seashells on the beach.
sharon weaden
8th August 2017 at 5:05 pmWe used to have lots of picnics on the Quantocks with our neighbours and my grandparents.
Lynne O'Connor
8th August 2017 at 5:38 pmhard to choose as I spent so much of my childhood outdoors. Probably Guide camps in the summer, sleeping in tents, cooking on campfires and building rafts and rope bridges
Michelle Thompson
8th August 2017 at 5:40 pmcamping with my mum and dad in whitby , you could never imagine what happened not good in a tent put it that way!
Paula Burnside
8th August 2017 at 6:22 pmPlaying on a wooden hobby horse at the park. It has long gone now but it was used in its time.
jen jackson
8th August 2017 at 6:26 pmOur family camping trips
Sammie Hodges
8th August 2017 at 6:30 pmTrips to Knole Park for walks every Sunday. My dad would always have sweets for us half way round!
Ellie Wood
8th August 2017 at 6:32 pmMaking a slip and slide with my sisters
Joanne smith
8th August 2017 at 7:44 pmBuilding tree houses and playing outside All day
Rebecca miller
8th August 2017 at 8:38 pmSwinging on the rotary washing lines with my best friend (5years old) we’re still best friends now 25 years on!
sharon martin
8th August 2017 at 8:47 pmi vividly remember the mini zip slide that my dad built in our garden, we had hours of fun
Catherine Gregory
8th August 2017 at 9:18 pmGoing to the park with my Mum and Nana
Lesley Bradley
8th August 2017 at 9:53 pmThe long hot summer of 1976, Great Yarmouth beach, donkey rides, bouncy castles and my most vivid memory- all those ladybirds!
George Wright
8th August 2017 at 10:08 pmGoing to the local fair & having fun on the rides!
Mark Johnson
8th August 2017 at 11:03 pmSummer days spending a lot of the days in the local woods
Felicity Kelly
8th August 2017 at 11:07 pmI used to love playing pet shops with the neighbours iin my shed, bagging up rabbit food and pretending to sell my rabbits!
Dawn Hull
8th August 2017 at 11:41 pmPlaying outside in the Summer for hours when I visited my grandparents who lived in the Northumberland countryside.