It's a loathsome fact of life but when it comes to everyone on this planet, you get well into your double digits and start acting like the adults you once despised. One of the worst aspects of becoming ever so slowly decrepit is the everlasting summers you once had as a kid seem to fade away into a quick blip of a few short weeks. First Christmas is destroyed by the Santa revelation *SPOILER ALERT* and now summer? Oh cruel fate, why?

For anyone born in the 80s or 90s, some nostalgic moments are due your way. You survived double denim twice, not to mention perms, so you deserve it. Here is a list of some 90's summer memories. You're welcome, world.

1. Neon cycling shorts or stirrup pants

Nearly everyone had a pair and they were NEVER actually worn for cycling or horse riding! So many questions but totally unable to verbalize them at the very sight of these. If neon cycling shorts or stirrup pants don't stun you into awful silence nothing will. These babies should be used as wartime shock tactic weapons somehow.

2. Caravaning in the country for 2 long bleedin' weeks

Father Ted immortalised our childhoods in one swift scene but if anything it also minimized the sheer torture of spending weeks on end in a small space that can only be described as horribly beige/full of god awful shades of brown only ever seen in the 70s-90s. To use the words of the nation's favourite crazy Sinead 'I'm fecked in the head' O'Connor, nothing compares.

3. Eating an ice cream that was shaped like a foot.

Strangely, as a kid you never even thought twice about it did you? MMM tasty toes on the beach. It doesn't bear to think about what body item ice cream we would've drawn the line at.

4. Having far too much time to collect these (pogs, slamdunkers)

5. Going to the airport to watch the planes take off as a day activity. Now that's recession!

6. When it rained (every day ish) and you only had Ray Darcy's face to look at, excluding the many puppets of RTE's Den 2 show. You had to like talking turkeys and alien puppets or be extremely outdoorsy. The Crystal Maze was an exotic option.

7. Being cringe-worthily shouted across the street to come home for yer dinner. This was far more likely in the pre-mobile phone days.

8. Getting your shoes 'christened' in mud by the local bully. What a bitch.

9. Blow-pens were the absolute shit for the full summer days and if you didn't have them, then sorry but you were behind the times. If a kid saw them now they would probably assume the user was a paraplegic

10. Worrying about losing your 'frigidity'. 'Are you still a fridgeh? Are ya? Scarleh for ya.

11. Everyone wanted a pair of jelly shoes and for the uber diva girls the high heel jelly shoe was the way to go: and here they are making a comeback.

12. Tomagotchi time! In a way these really set you up for life. You realised pretty early on in childhood that you are utterly incapable of looking after another 'living' thing. Mine was a baby dinosaur, what about you?