General Chat

Oh gosh, Joonie!
At 5, I was jumping off swings that had originally been quite a way from the huge hole created when gravel was removed. As time went on, the edges of the quarry eroded, the swings became neared the edge of the quarry, that was mainly sand, with the odd boulder.
We used to see if we could get high enough, so that when we jumped off the swings, we went over the edge and onto the sand (hopefully missing boulders!!)
At 6, Walter ran me over, with his bike.
At 10, me and a few friends used to jump off the cliffs at Mevagissey.
If you 'swung' to the left, you missed the rocks......
I was on the beach with my parents once, when the air-sea rescue had to come and rescue two climbers who were stuck on theses same cliffs.
I asked why they didn't just fall, it wasn't too high. Dad said it was, I boasted about jumping of the top - it was easy.
I was grounded for a week :-(
I went back as an adult..........they are high!!
As an adult, I wouldn't recommend jumping off them' :-0

I did, however, tear the cartilage in my knee - as an adult - walking to work!
It was raining, the flagstones were slippery - but it was a piece of old, dried, but wet with rain, chewing gum that was my downfall :-)
I slipped, but stopped myself falling (and possibly wetting my clothes, or breaking a bone), and damaged my knee :-(

I started young ... broke my arm falling off a tricycle at five. Leg, on the playground thing at seven. Foot twice in 30s and 40s, same bone, same trick: walk off the edge of the pavement.

Finally snapped fibula at the ankle four years ago, slipping on linoleum ... so there's hardly any point in playing it safe when the linoleum is just going to get you in the end, is there?!

Children climbing trees- fantastic!! :-D

A bout 4 years ago, we were camping - my sister, her son, his partner, my daughter, and 5 children. The two middle ones (5 and 4) were in a small tree nearby, (they were about 4 foot off the ground!) surveying the land and having a chat, when this other child, about the same age, came along and said they shouldn't be in the tree - because his daddy said he wasn't allowed in it :-(

He was ignored.......

Joonie, I've had many tumbles that 'should' have resulted in a broken bone or two, but I was lucky - or it could be the genes!!
Apart from one of my brothers, none of the family - that includes parents, siblings, children and grandchildren - has (so far) broken a bone - but my grand daughter does play contact rugby!!.
The brother is the exception, but when you're thrown off a motorbike at speed, by a car 'T' boning you, a broken bone or two is inevitable :-(

He's exactly like his mum was (our daughter).

Now, Joonie, I can warn him about what happened to you if he goes overboard. :-D

Although, he already knows how I shattered my smile when I was young. :-D

who needs a drone when you have an 8-year-old and a tree? :-D

Mum really is right a lot of the time though. My little brother bounced on the bed when he was about 2 and when he fell off he got a head injury that had to have a shunt put in his head and he had to be taken by bus to hospital to have it drained every second day for weeks ...

My mum would not leave him there because I had been so miserable for three months in hospital the year before when I fell off a playground climbing thing and broke myself.

We were the children all the other mums told theirs about. :-D

The young un's (aged 8) shinned up one of our trees the last two days after school. He's given me a running commentary for the top of the tree about what he could see. :-D

Not without the lady in question's permission, Sharron!

Hmmm...... since I don't remember falling out of the tree I never found out. I fell off my bike a number of times and that hurt so maybe it does. :-|

Maybe I should climb the nearest tree and find out. :-D

:-D :-D Rocky!
Reminds me of the warning shouted by almost every parent:
'Don't come running to me if you break your leg/neck'!!

Maybe my Mum should of read that book.

My Mum's boss saw me climbing a tree and told her 'That I shouldn't be allowed because if I fell out of the tree I would get hurt.'

MY MUM ANSWER: well if she does, that is the only way she will learn that if she climbs trees and falls out it hurts,

Bikes I have sailed over the handlebars on. :-D

Followed by the sequel,

Dentists I have visited for removal of bits of teeth.

:-D (me now) :-D

:-D :-D :-D

Illustrated?

My book will be entitled "Places in which I have got a finger stuck".

So who on here can use a diabalo? Who can do tricks with a yo-yo? Who can use a hula-hoop?

They have all been extremely popular pastimes that have faded into oblivion.If somebody doesn't record the details of what really are skills they will be lost forever.

An African friend was delighted to see a fireplace taken apart to show him how it worked because he had read about fireplaces in Dickens but had no experience of them and could not really picture how they worked.

I've got no idea. I wouldn't have watched a man walking along branches - but probably!!

There was a programme a few years ago, about a student living alone in a remote cottage in Wales, that had no electricity, and only an open fire for heat.
He really 'roughed' it - he went without a car, and it wasn't on a bus route. :-S

I did that. I didn't make a bloody TV programme about it :-|

The poor dear tried to create a veg garden - oh! such hardship. He got some hens - for eggs, I didn't see him kill & eat any of the chickens.

Many of our - and probably his- ancestors lived like this, and successfully brought up children.

Is that the same chap who was on tele the other day walking barefoot along branches?

:-D :-D :-D

Boom, boom! :-D :-D

Because his friends were busy 'learning' how to climb trees?