1. Filling water balloons from the tap until they exploded.
2. Of course, there was a better way of dousing your mates.
3. All the cool kids would come back from their holidays with these, but your mum would never let you get one.
4. Being forced to take part in this for your school's summer fete.
5. Coming back from the school holidays with one of these, knowing you looked the business.
NEw hair wrap😍
6. Playing catch with Velcro balls.
Velcro catch ball!!!! #BestFriends @C_Gray_10
Even better, that game where you wore Velcro hats and had to try and catch the ball with your head. So good!
7. Having your mum wrangle your arms in to arm bands if you were less than four miles away from a body of water.
8. Hypercolor T-shirts.
9. The mini win of getting your mum to buy you jellies.
10. The moment of joy after spotting one of these parked on the corner.
11. Your parents arguing for ages over putting up a striped windbreaker at the beach.
12. Spending all your pocket money on these:
13. Forming a bike gang with the neighbourhood kids.
14. Being made to put on one of these at the beach.
15. Feeling hopeful when you walked passed a shop like this, just in case your dad would buy you a dinghy.
16. But being more than happy if you got any of these:
17. Taking holiday selfies with one of these:
18. Ice poles.
19. Switching from winter to summer school uniform.
20. The dream-destroying day this happened.
21. The two-stick lollies that would always crumble if you tried to split them.
22. Begging for a donkey ride on the beach.
23. Your dad filling up the paddling pool by leaving the hose running in it.
