Buzz·Posted on 3 Aug 201525 Summer Childhood Memories Every Scottish Person HasWere you brave enough to leave the house without a jacket?by Aime HunterBuzzFeed ContributorLinkFacebookPinterestTwitterMail 1. Summer officially starting when your summer uniform was allowed. View this post on schooliforms.tumblr.com Long shorts + checked dresses = summertime. 2. And from then on, managing to convince a teacher to have the lesson outside felt like the greatest victory. View this photo on Instagram 3. You played rounders in every single PE lesson in the last few weeks of school. View this photo on Instagram 4. And checked the weather forecast every five minutes in the week before Sports Day. View this photo on Instagram 5. You sang "Summer Holiday" at the top of your lungs on the last day of school. View this video on YouTube youtube.com "We're all going on a summer holiday, no more working for a... MONTH or two!" 6. Then had to wait for English schools to break up for summer holiday TV to start. View this photo on Instagram 7. Sunlight pouring through your curtains kept you awake at night. View this photo on Instagram 8. You went for a chippy and an ice-cold can of Irn Bru by the seaside at least once. View this photo on Instagram 9. And stopped for some of this on the way home. View this photo on Instagram 10. You got the paddling pool out on a hot* summer's day. View this photo on Instagram 11. And ate a few of these to cool down. View this photo on Instagram 12. If the forecast looked extra promising, you got one of these bad boys out. View this photo on Instagram 13. Your parents shouted you in for tea and toast after you'd played with your friends long enough. View this photo on Instagram 14. If you lived near Glasgow, your whole neighbourhood probably headed to Largs for a "trip doon the water" on the one hot day of the year. View this photo on Instagram 15. And you probably went on a trip to cycle around Millport. View this photo on Instagram 16. But if you lived near Edinburgh, Portobello was your beach of choice. View this photo on Instagram 17. And your beach gear was probably shown up by all the posh people with their deck chairs and windbreaks. View this photo on Instagram 18. But wherever you lived, you definitely visited Scotland's version of Disney World: the wonder that is M&D's. View this photo on Instagram 19. Or, for a real treat, you made the annual family visit to Edinburgh Zoo. View this photo on Instagram 20. And picked up a few souvenirs while you were there. View this photo on Instagram 21. Because of the bad weather, you probably made full use of your rainy day activity book over the holidays. View this photo on Instagram 22. And you spent large parts of your summer indoors playing every board game you owned. View this photo on Instagram 23. As well as spending most days debating whether to leave the house without a jacket. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 24. And getting jealous of all the sunshine-filled water gun adverts on TV when it was pouring outside. View this photo on Instagram 25. But your overriding memory of your Scottish summers is battling millions of midges. View this photo on Instagram