Why. The. Actual. Fuck. Would you put this. On the. Internet.
It took me a hot minute to realise that wasn’t her arse. If my stomach was as round as my bum I’d be straight down the gym
@AliceInWanderLost thank you for sharing this
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Similar childhood for me too. I don’t look back on it and feel hard done by or anything. I look back and am so thankful for what my parents did and how they’ve brought me up to appreciate things.
Honestly I was bought up in a 2 parent household but back in the 80s where there was no nmw and lots of people on the dole. My dad was one of them and my mom at the time was in the shittest job imaginable.
We were on our arse broke. We had a holiday every 2 years that my grandparents paid for to Rhyl. The Sunday stew lasted us most of the week and I remember my dad dragging their mattress to the lounge so we could all sleep together in winter as it was the warmest room in the house as an adult lookingback it breaks my heart at the sacrifices my parents made to give me a happy childhood and they always felt they failed.
what I constantly reminded them was I remember walking for hours (& miles) down the cut blackberry picking, being taught to fish at Salford park, picnics in the local park, being taught to play chess, cribbage, poker and black Jack, how to climb trees and make go carts from scrap, middle of the night sledging on stolen bread trays, how I was taught to cook and be thrifty and still have fun. A day out to us was getting the train to Stratford upon Avon and nearly all of my Christmas presents were second hand and they were still the most amazing things.
Now my parents have gone I don’t remember the expensive things they bought me when their lives changed and hard work paid off. I remember how they made me feel loved and protected and happy. And your kids will feel the same (oh and I’ve won more than I care to remember playing chauvinistic men at poker so thanks for that dad
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) you’ve given them more than you can ever imagine x