Seven Memories From My Childhood.

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LoriAMoore has written about seven of her childhood memories and asked us to do the same. I had a job paring it down to 7, but here are mine. 1. My parents didn't possess a car when I was a child, but they had a tandem bicycle with a sidecar attached. Dad rode on the front of the bike, Mum at the back and we three little girls would pile into the sidecar. This was really just a crate on wheels, but we thought it was wonderful. We'd explore the local countryside like that. 2. Rolling down the grassy hill at the back of my grandparents' home. 3. Sliding frogspawn through my fingers in the local brook, and later being delighted when tadpoles emerged. 4. Making a 'slide' on the canal when it froze over in the winter. It's a wonder we never fell through and drowned. 5. Helping my mother on washday by attempting to turn the mangle. 6. I remember the hissing and sputting of the gas lamps in my grandparents home. They didn't have electricity. 7. Picking wild flowers for my mother - bluebells, primroses and cowslips in the Spring, buttercups, daisies and dandelions in the summer. She never told me that dandelions were weeds, but accepted them all graciously. Are you going to tell us some of your memories?