Great Old Days Great Old Days

CASSIE BLACKMORE

Take me back to the great old days when life was carefree and easy.

We played kick the tin, knock the doors and run, skips, rounders.

The boys playing football, well that's if us girls didn't steal the ball and run just so we would be chased by the boys.

Thinking we were big girls when we stole our first fag of our mum or dad and then taking that first puff. Nearly choking to death but that didn't stop us.

When we got money we bought 10 No 6 or Embassy and your best friend would have douts on it for life.

Going to the chippy: pasty and chips, a tin of coke and you’d still have money for fags. Every Boxing day all your mates going to the pictures.

When we became teenagers we had our skinny jeans, white fluffy socks with high heels, tanktops RaRa skirts and trench coats.

Kissing the boys around the back of your house or school and hiding your fags from people who might know your mum or dad or granny. Off to the school discos dancing to Abba or the Nolan sisters and the boys to Bad Manners and hoping the boy ya fancied ask ya to dance to a slow song. Then becoming 18 and you're all legal now going to the discos and having a Babycham because we thought it was posh and standing in your double denim with blue or lilac eye shadow, blue eyeliner and your hair smelling of Vosene and Charlie body spray. Hoping the boys would notice you.

Those days are past now and our kids will never know the fun their mums, dads and grannies had.

So all ya young lads and lassies - your mums and dads and grannies did it all long before you did. You young ones on your phones, computers and gaming consoles will never know what the great old days were like. Good times when friends were real friends, and still are, and the

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