hmm... childhood...
Big Loader. Watching that thing go round, and pick up the balls, and put them in the scoop, and carry them to the back of the other truck, and drive them up the hill and into the big hopper, then the clumsy truck drops them all over the track again. There's stuff about it here:
http://www.creativeteachingsite.com/bigloader.htm
What else...
Watching cartoons on saturday morning. Heckle and Jeckle on video!
Safeway salt and pepper chipsticks. Not the big maize things, but actual potato.
Minichips. Salt and vinegar. Makes my mouth water just thinking about them.
Breaking my fingers.
Breaking the other fingers (or rather, having them broken for me "so they'd match")
Playing ghostbusters at primary school.
The school boiler breaking and us all being sent home, to find no-one there.
Programming all the Spectrums at Boots (back when Boots sold pooters)
Getting bored playing Mortello Tower on the school BBC-B and hacking it.
Going on holiday to Malta, swimming miles, getting horrendous sunburn.
And then going bowling, getting a strike, and being patted on the back. Yowch!
Our pet dog sitting so close to the gas fire she burned the hairs on her tail. Repeatedly.
Jumping off a 15 foot high wall with my jumper as a parachute, just to see if it worked.
Will, Wow, I have lots of memories!