Objects of your childhood that you treasure (7)

Name the most treasured objects of your childhood.

Why were they important to you?

Do you still have any of them?

What objects have comparable meaning for you today?

Oh yes, I remember those! They were fantastic!

Gee, I`m trying to answer my own question, and its not that easy!

When I think of "treasured objects" of childhood - I remember Fruit Trees!

I loved one particular big Apricot tree in our back garden, I built a tree-house in it, and lived in it on weekends - having warfare on the next door kids - who swarmed their apricot tree like monkeys, and we used the fruit as weapons, as well - well theirs was always mostly green which gave them tummy aches,(to my delight) and mine was big and juicy which made a more lasting impression as a weapon. They had fig trees too,so I could spy out when they werent around and go steal their figs, and plums, to supplement my tree diet.


Now, whenever I see apricots it brings back memories of those delightful days. But I`ve never seen a fruit tree as big as "my" apricot tree was!

Comparable meaning today?.. Dunno .... ... little punnets of fruit in supermarkets?

Another fabulous fruit of childhood was the Cape Gooseberry - it grew wild in lanes between houses and out in the veld. Nowadays its a sort of delicasy?