Last month we compared the well equipped school playgrounds of today to the rough and ready school playgrounds in the eighties. Today we’ll explore some of the other things that often went on in school playgrounds back in the eighties. Sure playing on the play equipment was cool, but sometimes you...

The BMX was an essential way of getting around for kids during the 80’s and, whilst we were probably the first generation to grow up with bike helmets, that didn’t stop some classic BMX stacks from happening when I was growing up. Probably most memorable was the sight of my...

Walking through the boy’s school last week got me thinking about how far school playgrounds have come in the last thirty odd years. Firstly, when I think back to my primary schools playground, I’m surprised I’m actually still alive to write about it!  Ok, perhaps that’s a tad melodramatic, but...

So if you’ve read my last blog you’ll recall my “fond” recollections of my childhood family holidays and the hell that was sometimes involved in the road trip to get there.  The backseat squabbling, the car sickness and my parents lack of humour in being asked “Are we there yet?” every...

Ok, firstly a disclaimer, I grew up on a farm, so maybe my memories of growing up in the 80’s aren’t going to be exactly the same as yours, but I suspect they could be? That is, that some of my greatest childhood memories were building cubby houses, or cubbies as they...