Seven childhood memories

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I was inspired to take up this challenge by @Maggs224, 1. I remember my dad's gooseberry bushes, looking for the fruits that had turned translucent and were slightly soft and ready to eat. So delicious. 2. I remember when my two cousins came to stay in the school holidays and my sister, cousin and I had to sleep top and tail in the same bed. 3.I remember my dad taking about 10 children from our road swimming at a pool 30 minutes away in a funny big green van, that was his company car at the time. Nowadays we would have to have had seats and seatbelts, but rules were looser then. 4. I remember my naughty cousin, who is 2 years older than me, deciding to drive this same van. She would have been about 12 and though she had no key, she got the brake off and coasted down the slight hill that was our road. Luckily she managed to get the brake on before meeting the main road! 5.I can remember being teased at school for wearing a pair of said cousin's hand me down shoes, which had a tiny heel . All the other girls wore Clarks sandals and shoes. 6. I remember eating cheese pie at grammar school and throwing it up from the train window on the way home. I would not eat cheese and egg pie for years afterwards! 7. I remember when my mum gave birth at home to my youngest sister. I decided to take her a pot of tea,only to find that though I had warmed the pot, used fresh water as taught, that I had forgotten to put any tea in the pot! I was only eight ! Have you memories to share?