Stories from your childhood

Yeh - had it only been the coal hole I wouldn't even complain. It could be pretty much any enclosed space with a door or a lid. You might find yourself under the sink, or on the top shelf of a wardrobe or in the bin. 

When I was growing up a lot of people on the road were, like my parents, from the country.

So many people had hen runs at the end of their garden where hens were kept and eggs gathered.

As the back gardens were huge a lot of people also grew their own vegetables.

Potatoes, cabbage, onions, peas, carrots, cauliflower,turnips as well as strawberries and of course rhubarb.

I remember that Pat, chickens and goats everywhere. My mother in law was from a farming family in Templemore and she had a funny story that she never stopped telling. Although she grew up on a farm she was never involved with the butchering part. She got married and bought a few chickens when she moved to Dublin and one day she decided it was time to have one for dinner. She got the hubby's razor, closed her eyes and did the deed. When she opened her eyes the chicken was lying there, looking up at her with blood running from a small cut on its neck. She put a plaster on its neck and threw it back into the garden. All the neighbours kept asking her -what happened to the chicken?

Brilliant story Pogue, just hilarious

Lol - I suspect so, Pogue.   Oh, talking about Bowie (see that nifty change of topic there, seamless, like), I always liked this old track of his... John, I'm only dancing. Hang in till I get the link: ah there it is https://youtu.be/6VrqCBsbeuc

Ha, I remember that one Pat, childhood pals of ours - two brothers - always using it on one another! Then they'd kick the living crap out of one another ! We were all about 9 at the time 😱

We had this thing with worms - dunno where it came from. You had to put a few on the back if your neck and keep,them there as long as you could . No wonder I'm weird 🙄😂

Crazy days when we were kids and the family went to Howth on Sundays. Not only were we sent for pots of scalding hot tea on the beach but we were given pennies to put on the railroad tracks and had races to the old shipwreck in high tide. Despite our parents' attempts to get rid of us, we all survived.

Who remembers "Tarry At Harry's" in Kinegad.
A must stop on the way West.
Great food and their steaks were at the time a treat.

On 4th October 1957 the Russians launched the Sputnik satellite.

Even though I was only 4 years old at the time I remember clearly my father taking us out into the laneway beside our house in Celtic Park and waiting on that dark October night for Sputnik to pass over.

We were gobsmacked and it looked like a moving star but my father had a great way of adding excitement to any event, telling us about satellites and showing us on a map where Russia was etc...

Still have a great buzz remembering trading cards with mates in school.  Might have mentioned this before.  Collected football cards, batman cards, old "horror" cards from Hollywood movies.  The packs all came with chewing gum - horrible pink stuff.  Collected a full set of star wars cards in the late 70s (77) - reckon the star wars ones would be worth a fortune now.