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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2014 15:44:07 GMT
I have many happy memories of my childhood but one that keeps coming back is me waiting very impatiently beside my mother while she made the chocolate butter icing to go on the sponge that had just come out of the oven.
Ronnie had a baking day today so I couldn't resist getting the butter, chocolate and icing sugar out and whipping it all together.
Once the sponges were done, I proceeded as I did as a child, to spoon the remaining mixture out of the bowl. Once the spoon could gather no more, it was fingers licked until the last dregs were gone.
I think I'll go and listen to Abbey Road....little darlin' here comes the tum.....
I'm sure others have little 'habits' retained from their childhood.
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Post by MartinT on Jul 13, 2014 16:33:50 GMT
My sister and I used to take turns to either lick the bowl or lick the spoon. It always tasted better than the finished cake!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2014 16:53:11 GMT
My sister and I used to take turns to either lick the bowl or lick the spoon. It always tasted better than the finished cake! Nah, I was a spoiled brat and got the dregs down me before Liz even got a whiff  |
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Post by Chris on Jul 14, 2014 3:06:32 GMT
Mum,mum can I lick the bowl?
No dear,just flush it like everyone else.
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Post by Chris on Jul 14, 2014 3:22:56 GMT
Seems I haven't grown up much.
I was brought up with the Union Canal literally on our back garden gate and,as such,was constantly playing in boats,canoes building gang huts and taking the dog for big walks along it.
Still do so (apart from the gang huts,sometimes)and the pleasure it has given me to introduce the kids and Grandkids to the area is just amazing. Mum is a fantastic baker as well so licking the bowl was also a big thing and Mrs Chris just passes me it now when she's having a Mary Berry day. I split it with Titus now just as I used to with my childhood dog.
I also still like climbing trees and big play parks with the wee ones are great fun! This is a throwback to the old play park at Gullane beach,pre h&s days,which had tree houses you could swing between and an "ewok village" type construction. I still love Yelllowcraigs.
Playing bikes was a big one as well and I still do that too.
I've also fond memories of my Dad and his stereo(just a wee,decent Hitachi thing) and listening to his records(Eagles,Meatloaf,Louis Armstrong sort of stuff) and Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy that we used to tune in for. I still enjoy the spoken word.
Fantastic times.
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Post by MartinT on Jul 14, 2014 6:45:34 GMT
For me, it was a Dansette that no-one in the family used (I used to sit and listen to my Dad's Readers Digest classical albums, that again no-one played, on headphones that I modified from his metal detector).
I never had a bike as I lived in London. However, I did have Regent's Park just up the road and spent many a summer's day there, reading.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2014 7:00:31 GMT
For me, it was a Dansette that no-one in the family used (I used to sit and listen to my Dad's Readers Digest classical albums, that again no-one played, on headphones that I modified from his metal detector). I never had a bike as I lived in London. However, I did have Regent's Park just up the road and spent many a summer's day there, reading. I suspect that those few Readers Digest LPs I still have are the same. Probably the most pristine I have. My mum used to buy the damn collections all the time, line them up in the relevant hole in the 'sideboard' and look at them. I can't remember ever hearing them played  |
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Post by MartinT on Jul 14, 2014 7:29:04 GMT
Yep, I still have some of them. The label is Concert Hall.
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Post by MikeMusic on Jul 14, 2014 12:56:13 GMT
Three years in Malaya, aged 4-7
It was hot. When the monsoons came it was very, very wet
If you heard rifle fire we calmly used to say
"it's the terrorists"
After cubs one day we wondered what a stampede of water buffalo would be like
It was quite busy and fortunately none of us died .......
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