National Trust

13 Apr 2012

Did you achieve all these before you were 11 3/4
National Trust: 50 things to do before you are 11 ¾
The National Trust is aiming to get the UK's ‘cotton wool kids’ outdoors. Here is their list of the 50 things to do before you are 11 ¾.

1. Climb a tree
2. Roll down a really big hill
3. Camp out in the wild
4. Build a den
5. Skim a stone
6. Run around in the rain
7. Fly a kite
8. Catch a fish with a net
9. Eat an apple straight from a tree
10. Play conkers
11. Throw some snow
12. Hunt for treasure on the beach
13. Make a mud pie
14. Dam a stream
15. Go sledging
16. Bury someone in the sand
17. Set up a snail race
18. Balance on a fallen tree
19. Swing on a rope swing
20. Make a mud slide
21. Eat blackberries growing in the wild
22. Take a look inside a tree
23. Visit an island
24. Feel like you're flying in the wind
25. Make a grass trumpet
26. Hunt for fossils and bones
27. Watch the sun wake up
28. Climb a huge hill
29. Get behind a waterfall
30. Feed a bird from your hand
31. Hunt for bugs
32. Find some frogspawn
33. Catch a butterfly in a net
34. Track wild animals
35. Discover what's in a pond
36. Call an owl
37. Check out the crazy creatures in a rock pool
38. Bring up a butterfly
39. Catch a crab
40. Go on a nature walk at night
41. Plant it, grow it, eat it
42. Go wild swimming
43. Go rafting
44. Light a fire without matches
45. Find your way with a map and compass
46. Try bouldering
47. Cook on a campfire
48. Try abseiling
49. Find a geocache
50. Canoe down a river

13 Apr 2012

a fair few but not all blue wink

13 Apr 2012

Never achieved about 4 of the above,
Most are too dangerous for these guys though;
lol

14 Apr 2012

Geocaches didn't exist, but then again nor did health and safety. Possibly didn't achieve another 2 or 3.
However a very quick 'risk assessment' of this list really just shows how irresponsible parents, teachers and other adults allowed these ill conceived dangerous activities to take place but only a few years ago. How in gods name can they live with the thought that they not only let, but in some cases positively encouraged, children do these sort of things?

14 Apr 2012

yes,keep the little darlings indoors on their playstations,much safer

14 Apr 2012

Quote by Robert400andKay
However a very quick 'risk assessment' of this list really just shows how irresponsible parents, teachers and other adults allowed these ill conceived dangerous activities to take place but only a few years ago. How in gods name can they live with the thought that they not only let, but in some cases positively encouraged, children do these sort of things?

how any of us ever survived to be in our 40's i will never know. :doh:
i mean in your world we would be kept indoors, out of the worlds harmful ways. i bet there are plenty of peeple who did all of the above and never came to any harm save a scratch or three.
sorry but with thoughts like yours above, it is proof that this cotton wool culture with kids, and there safety has gone way over board.
you dont work for your local council do you in the H&S department, and your the team leeder? rolleyes

sorry but i really do not mean to be rude but i would dread to think what activities you would like kids to partake in? tiddlywinks by any chance? roller skating on a bed of sand? swimming with three life guards per child? what utter nonsense.:jagsatwork:
i notice that you fall into the catagory of these things as at 50 you are an early 60's baby. did you not do any of these things? not a single one where you and your friends had fantastic fun? i bet not one of you got hurt either.:thumbup:

14 Apr 2012

Quote by Robert400andKay
Geocaches didn't exist, but then again nor did health and safety. Possibly didn't achieve another 2 or 3.
However a very quick 'risk assessment' of this list really just shows how irresponsible parents, teachers and other adults allowed these ill conceived dangerous activities to take place but only a few years ago. How in gods name can they live with the thought that they not only let, but in some cases positively encouraged, children do these sort of things?

:giggle:

14 Apr 2012

Ummmmm . . . Star, I may be wrong on this, but I kind of get the feeling that perhaps Robert400 was being a tad facetious there, tongue firmly wedged in cheek. Don't think you were meant to take him at his word? confused

Anyways, I'd have got 50 / 50 if it hadn't been for the bloody geocaching. It's a dirty little trick sneaking that in. I mean, it hadn't even been bleedin' invented back when I were a nipper. mad

Alright, can't say as I remember bringing up a butterfly or racing snails now I think on it, so maybe 47 / 50, but it's still a dirty trick. The canal and ponds just across the slag heaps by the pit were our playground and we'd spend whole days down there adventuring around. It's all been landscaped now and turned into a 'country park' type thing, and I can't remember the last time I saw any kids playing down there. Maybe making it safe has taken all the fun out of it, who knows? Sad.

14 Apr 2012

even some 30 odd years later blue i still have the urge to bury someone in the sand

:rotflmao::rotflmao::rotflmao::rotflmao:

14 Apr 2012

Quote by Lizaleanrob
even some 30 odd years later blue i still have the urge to bury someone in the sand :rotflmao::rotflmao::rotflmao::rotflmao:

14 Apr 2012

Quote by neilinleeds
Ummmmm . . . Star, I may be wrong on this, but I kind of get the feeling that perhaps Robert400 was being a tad facetious there, tongue firmly wedged in cheek. Don't think you were meant to take him at his word?

really? :doh:

14 Apr 2012

29, 48, 49, and 50, never ever done!

15 Apr 2012

Quote by Bluefish2009
29, 48, 49, and 50, never ever done!

i have done a 69 bluefish blink

15 Apr 2012

Quote by Bluefish2009
29, 48, 49, and 50, never ever done!

really??? 29 is loverly foo yung dish with 49 being my fave smoked shredded chicken mmm
im surprised blue bolt

15 Apr 2012

Never did 49, geocaches didn't exist. Whilst I have heard of them, I didn't really know what they were until a couple of days ago when the dog caught (he ran up and started sniffing in the box) somebody in the woods with an ammo box labelled 'Geocache'.
Not too sure about '17. Set up a snail race'. I remember 'crab races', and retrieved a gazillion winkles from a caravan. The winkles had been left in a bucket overnight to 'spit their grit'. It is quite surprising how far winkles can travel in 8 hours when escaping from an open top bucket. They are snails of a sort?
Had a think and I can tick off '44. Light a fire without matches'. Not the 'Bear Grylls' approved method of rubbing a twig on a boy scout, but with magnifying glass, yep.
As a child of the 60's, Star, that would give me a score of about 48.5? However we did get hurt Star, but ya knows nettle rash fades smile

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Also I have done 69, but not before getting the full local authority:
- HSE assessment
- microbiological tests
- legal checks that no actions would contravene gender, racial, and age discrimination laws
Politically verified correct (PVC) pussy is the only way to go down.
;)

15 Apr 2012

but canal, ponds and slag heaps do sound good. Down our way (the Isle of Wight) we never had either canals or slag heaps. I might feel deprived, but on the other hand we had the old railway track (once the steam trains stopped running), the grave yard, the coast and Medina (river).
Trying to score my list I did wonder about '13. Make a mud pie', and '20. Make a mud slide', then remembered that in the Medina sliding on mud wasn't optional, and it was castles more than pies smile

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Geocaches ..... just 21st nonsense. Are these folks having trouble finding their old man or what?
It sounds like your old stomping ground has indeed been done by the obsession with safety. Not only does it remove the fun, but you have to wonder about the lessons that we all learned from getting hurt?

15 Apr 2012

Did all except 50. As I failed the provisional testing in the swimming pool, I couldn't keep my canoe upright...lol
As for Geocaching, we used to call it letterboxing in the Scouts, cross between a treasure hunt and orienteering. I believe that's been around for about a hundred years or more only the technology has changed but the principal is the same.

15 Apr 2012

Are any of these "banned" dunno

I done most of these, my kids and nephews and neices still do them. If people have not done them then it is the parents and not anybody else that are stopping them.
Dave_Notts