Very small black and white tv with bunny ears for reception
Do they still teach this in school?
Did you ever climb into a tractor tyre and have your mates push you down a (small)hill?
Anyone make one of these ... Dads wood scrap pile + wheels "borrowed" from a siblings pram or Dads lawnmower = much fun ... I only wish I knew how make a braking system back in ye day 
And you go around a corner and your arse slides of and you go around the corner with your cheek on your face rubbing on the tarmac. LOLAnyone make one of these ... Dads wood scrap pile + wheels "borrowed" from a siblings pram or Dads lawnmower = much fun ... I only wish I knew how make a braking system back in ye day
We had a variation where we towed one behind an 80cc bike around the garden, seeing who could stay on the longest ... it brought a new meaning to grass burns and greenstick fractures
Scaffolding plank, pram wheels, Brakes were always optional, toontrekker plakkie on wheel worked, .....sometimes, @Stew , what’s tarmac? Sand en klippe, one of the reasons my head still looks like a gholfball if my hair is too short!Anyone make one of these ... Dads wood scrap pile + wheels "borrowed" from a siblings pram or Dads lawnmower = much fun ... I only wish I knew how make a braking system back in ye day
I think most of us from that era will end up looking a bit like Frankenstein should we go bald
Well, today's generation doesn't know what this is..
The thread title is Name one thing from YOUR childhood
Is there something you're trying to tell us here Morix?
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.. Well if i have to name something ill say dirkie.. BTW im looking for a DIYspert that can make this. 
Anyone make one of these ... Dads wood scrap pile + wheels "borrowed" from a siblings pram or Dads lawnmower = much fun ... I only wish I knew how make a braking system back in ye day
We made brakes like this one, only not as fancy. A piece of branding with a bolt through it.
Clearly you showed greater promise of becoming an engineer in ye day
... as to me, well ... I was a Darwin Award contender back then
Good thing that you were only a contender. You don't want to win that one.
Typically around this time of the year at family gatherings, many of the old "war stories" get tabled for discussion, (usually fairly substantially embellished for shock factor too I may add), and whilst listening to some of them and reliving them moments in my head, oft. wonder how on earth my, (our?), generation made it to 2021 ... clearly there's an army of Guardian Angels looking after us Baby Boomers
The smaller the tyre the worse the pain.
Truck and tractor tyres Rock car tyres not so much.
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In my day we had these little triangular packages called Pikkie that had sweetened condensed milk in, (along with chocolate and strawberry variations). They were sadly discontinued in the early 70's, and then reintroduced as Dirkie in the mid 80's, as I recall, to which I'm sad to say, were a far cry from the original Pikkies
There used to be a takkie called north star... Good braking system!
Not cool walking In the neighbours dogsh!t at anytime. So shoes was the safest option.Did you wear shoes?... We only wore them when we had to
Did you wear shoes?
I knew a family that all had their own pair of shoes.
Got my second pair of school shoes, en langbroek for Std 5 prizegiving, wore once and had to replace for Std 6, different color for high school. Only found out people wore tocs for soccer and rugby when we played the “rich schools”, for info we were 49 kids in primary school, 5 Std 5’s, 3 teachers for all grades and standards, so for rugby one of the girls had to play fullback or we were a “man” short for the 15 needed. Soccer was 11 no reserves, and that included Gr1’s. Man I miss those blue toe winter days.
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