nature

When my daughter was 4 years old, she watched a tv show on the volcanos of Hawaii. They showed the lava, or "lavie", flowing into the ocean. For about 6 months after that she was convinced that "lavie" would come out of the hot water fawcet when ever she turned it on...

When I was young, I believed that clouds were made of concrete, and attached to the sky by strings- if God was angry at you, he would cut the strings, and a cloud would fall on you, crushing you to death. I tried to avoid getting under clouds, and always felt a little safer on sunny days.

I used to think that the trees moving about created the wind. And that thunder was the clouds having an argument and banging together.

I used to think that when it rained the angel/fairies were watering us with little watering cans! as though helping us to grow!

when i used to go to the beach when i was wee.I used to ask who was it that pulled the plug in the sea when the tide had gone out?

My boyfriend's parents used to amuse themselves by telling him that the rhubarb plants in their garden were triffids (as in 'Day of the Triffids').

They weren't laughing so much when, in terror, he ran them down with his tricycle...

At school they taught us about earthquakes in Geography. I then imagined people falling in to these holes opening up in the ground and then the ground closing again on top of them. I constantly worried about this happening and was nervous every time a lorry or train rumbled by, thinking this is it. Unfortunately they forgot to tell us that this was extremely unlikely in the North West of England.

i used to believe that electrical pylons were robots, and the cables were lasers, and there was one HUGE war that froze them all in place. I also used to think that trees were monsters...

I was terrified of electricity pylons and thought they were huge men striding across the landscape (bit potty I was!)

My parents always told my older sister and I that thunder was just the clouds bumping into one another. So, when my sister was in her Secondary School Science class and the teacher asks the question on what causes thunder....my sisters hand shoots in the air and declares its when they bump into each other! You can imagine that she's never lived it down since!

I was told that "thunder" was the result of the giants, who lived in the clouds, moving house. What a fool!

If cows were sat down, it meant it was going to rain.

Eating your crusts on bread would make your hair curly. We had to eat them whether we wanted curly hair or no!

when i was little and was afraid of thunder, my mother told me not to worry --- it was just God moving his furniture.

When I asked my mother where clouds came from, she said "factories" and I believed this for way too long - almost into my teens!

I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and my little sister and I were children when the big earthquake occured. A part of our school curriculum always involved natural disasters in the area so we both grew up learning about fault lines and plates. Several years after the earthquake my family was on holiday and we were driving through the small town of San Andreas, California. My sister saw the "Welcome to San Andreas" sign and promptly asked, "So is this where they keep and make all the earthquakes?" in reference to the San Andreas fault that we had learned so much about.

I don't know how young I was when I thought I learned this, but up until very recently, I thought it had to be exactly 32 degrees F. in order for it to snow. That, and if it goes below 32 degrees, it's too cold to snow.

When I was younger my father and I used to watch a lot of westerns on TV. There were always "shootouts" between the Cowboys and the Indians...I used to believe that the stars in the skies were make from the arrows and the bullets that didn't hit their mark. I thought they didn't have stars before this because in the night scenes it was always black in the sky. From the minds of children come amazing thoughts sometimes...lol...