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General Discussion => This 'n' That => Topic started by: babyjane on July 13, 2016, 01:23:02 PM
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Had
Pogo stick, stilts, roller skates, jacks, marbles, Hornby train set, Matchbox cars (think I was supposed to be a boy :-\), golly (am I allowed to put that)
wanted
space hopper, doll, dolls pram, scooter, teddy of my own that hadn't belonged to someone else
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Had:
Lego, fuzzy felt, stickle bricks, Spirograph, felt tips, colouring books, dolls
Wanted:
Sindy and lots of accessories so bad
Annie x
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Rubber bricks (before Lego) which were my brothers.
Old teddies
Baby dolls
Small pram which looked like Silver Cross carriage ones ;D
Sindy doll & her wardrobe full of clothes
Spirograph
Fuzzy felt
Brother's roller skates
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I remember my dolls house I used to enjoy moving furniture around and so to with the dolls.
Of course Cindy dolls and make up kits and her wardrobe.
I also loved my black and gold musical Jewellery box and when opened the fairy wld go round and round with a tune. Thinking about it now a bit magical!!
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Roller skates skipping ropes footsies clackers jacks and chucks wanted a dolls world wasn't allowed
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anyone remember french skipping with a length of elastic between two sets of feet?
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Sindy dolls
Roller skates
Dolls and pram, but really, really wanted a go-kart
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I remember one Christmas at school we all had to say what we would like from Father Christmas at the school christmas party. A little boy in my class wanted a pop gun. I couldn't think of anything to say as I was not allowed to ask for things for christmas, I just got what I was given so I said a pop gun too even though I didn't know what it was.
Come the school christmas party santa duly arrived and gave out the presents. One of the girls got a bride doll and I thought I might get one too. I opened my parcel to find..........a pop gun as requested. I didn't know what to do with it and I am sure that the teacher knew from my expression that I was horrified and wanted to cry.
Oh my goodness, I have just diagnosed why I don't like christmas presents and don't trust them :o
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Yep Babyjane - we called it 'lastic' ::)
Hop-skotch in the play-ground
I had/have a Hornby train set; a walky-talky doll; skipping; jacks; teddy; panda; Annuals; jigsaws; skipping ropes; roller skates; trike; 2-wheeler; buckets, spades and flags on sticks at the beach
Oh Babyjane - when I got my walky-talky doll one C.mas it fell over and went 'mama' at the bottom of the bed ::) - we were sharing a room with our parents as we were at Granny's that year. I was disappointed because she has blonde, curly hair: the doll, not Granny: I had seen one with long dark hair in the playground that year and that was what I wanted. She's with me still though ;-)
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I was given an exquisite porcelain china doll in a satin dress when I was about 4 (how stupid!) Of course I wanted to play with her but this was not the sort of doll that was to be played with. I undid her plaits, brushed out her hair so it resembled a birds nest, drew 'make up' on her face and coloured in one of her teeth. I never understood what I had done wrong, I just knew it was very serious :'( When an elderly great uncle gave our little daughter a dressed china doll many years later we took it away and put it safely in the wardrobe in its box and took DD to the toy shop and bought her a doll of her choosing, hence she did not suffer the same trauma I did.
Goodness me this is turning into the 'therapy support' thread :-X
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;D …….. it's good to talk ;-)
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My teddybear!
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Elastics were called Chinese skipping where I lived.
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I had (and still have) a bear and a knitted rabbit.
Also had lego and the wobbly people that were shaped like eggs that you can't knock over. Can't remember their proper name, but they came with a playground set - swings and a roundabout.
And Britain's farm and zoo animals - loved these. We visited the Cotswold Wildlife Park every Easter and Summer when we had our holiday with my grandmother, so I got a new animal twice a year.
I can't remember wanting any toys I didn't have, although I did ask for a baby elephant (a real one) for Christmas when I was about 3. ;D
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A big doll called Suzanna
Elastics
Jacks
Scraps, especially those sickly Swedish ones!
Skeelers - 3-wheel roller skates that I won when I got a letter published in Bunty (or whatever!)
Skipping (anyone remember bumps??)
Clackers (oh, ouch!)
Those ring-things that went round one ankle while the other foot skipped over it
Pogo stick
My brothers' space hopper
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Dorothy, were the wobbly people called Weebles ???
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Weebles Dorothy weebles wobble but they dont fall down ! I loved them ! Scraps Dulciana I had books full of them only got rid a few years ago! I had all my dolls in loft at my mums house until 17 years ago !my husband still has his very worn much loved teddy.
Babyjane I love this post 😊
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I remember elastic twist, marbles and jacks.
We had a large a large box of Bako, which was going cheap as Lego came on the market. It had bases with small holes for metal rods, where you could slide the bricks down. You could make some great houses, but not as versatile as Lego.
I was given a toy mangle, which made a wonderful horse! And ladybird books which made wonderful steps for houses created on the armchairs. We didn't have loads of toys, but adapted whatever came our way. Old kitchen cupboard doors made wonderful rafts to go on an imaginary river.
I still have my teddy, minus eyes, nose and very little fur. And no squeak due to the fact I used to jump on him apparently!
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Meccano !
Etch a,sketch
I used to play a lot with dolly pegs !
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Clackers (oh, ouch!)
Oh, I remember them! Got mine in 1970 (I think) when me and mum went to Spain after she divorced my dad. Mine were ivory (probably imitation) but boy did they hurt when they cracked your wrist.
What were those funny long tubes called that you used to whiz in circles above your head and they would make a droning noise?
Also remember looooving a Jacko monkey that looked like a chimpanzee. He could hang from doorframes and everything!
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I remember having a set of wade whimsies china animals
I converted my pram frame into a go-kart ;D
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I really wanted a dolls house so made my own. I used to collect cereal boxes and form them into room sets. With every new box another extension was added. I decorated the walls with wallpaper scraps and made curtains from scraps of my mother's dress making fabrics. It was all rather psychedelic! It ended up like Buckingham Palace! (Or so I thought!). I collected mini Scandi style wooden furniture to furnish it but never felt the need for mini dolls to use it.
I remember borrowing my brother's Chopper bike which was much more exciting than mine. I too remember; Clackers (many bruises); used to link elastic bands that the postman dropped for French skipping; Christmas annuals; weekly Beano and Bunty; Mousetrap and Frustration; Meccano and Lego. I loved those iron-filing faces where you moved the filings with a magnet. Spirograph was a firm favourite and I well remember the frustration when very young of not being adept enough to keep the shapes within the teeth of the frames.
I was a complete bookworm though and adored collecting mini libraries of book collections; the complete works of Enid Blyton, Penguin Children's Classics, Aesop's Fables and so many others that I can remember so well. I took enormous care looking after them but my little sister wrote all over them playing schools, pretending to mark exercise books. I was a teenager by then so she was easily forgiven, she was a little minx and able to get away with everything!
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Good thread :)
Tiny tears doll( the one where you pressed the button on her tummy to make her wee)
Spirograph
Annuals
Colouring books & crayons
Girls World
A bride doll that I saw In our local shop window and use to go and look at her everyday after school.
I'd go home and tell my parents how lovely she was. One day I looked in the window and she had a sold ticket on. I went home in tears only to find out Christmas Day that my parents had bought it for me and I still have her,but not the bride dress she was in,but one of my baby dresses. I named her Susan.
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Magic painting books
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>wave CLKD< :) oh yes. Forgot about those.
Mouse trap game
Kerplunk
Good old fashioned compendium of games ( ludo, snakes & ladders, draughts)
Frustration game
Buckaroo.
Happy family card game.
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There's some clackers upstairs in the wardrobe but the pale blue 'safety' ones !
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Ludo; Snap; Happy Families; Patience …….
My sister had 'spirograph' but I was never allowed to borrow it nor did I get one :-\ - at aged 9 it was thought I was too young.
Very early on I had a Post Office set with stamp, books of stamps, small envelopes …… once they were used however, that was it so I tended to use a pencil so that they lasted longer. I would set up on a chair with a back so that Mum would pay through the gap ::)
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A bride doll that I saw In our local shop window and use to go and look at her everyday after school.
I'd go home and tell my parents how lovely she was. One day I looked in the window and she had a sold ticket on. I went home in tears only to find out Christmas Day that my parents had bought it for me and I still have her,but not the bride dress she was in,but one of my baby dresses. I named her Susan.
Aww! Lovely story, Dyan!
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What a lot of lovely posts to read this afternoon. thank you everybody for sharing and making it a happy thread :)
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My little nurses outfit which came with a doctor's "case" for my Christmas one year. I wore that outfit to death! All my dolls were operated on. ;D
My championship yoyo! My brother, who was 10 years older & much more proficient at it, and I competed with each other to see who could do the best tricks. Of course as he was much taller he could manage more than me. Wish I'd kept it!
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Dorothy, were the wobbly people called Weebles ???
Thank you Clairelou and Walking the Dog, that was the name!
Oh, and fuzzy felt. I'd forgotten fuzzy felt. Delighted to discover they still make it, though it's not the same as it used to be ;)
Dyan, that's a lovely story about the doll. This is such a lovely thread.
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For you Dorothy
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Fab pic of weebles babyjane can anyone remember a tiny doll about the size of a childs hand called sweet April ?
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Yes I remember that WTD. Didn't have one though :(
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Mainly books which is all I ever asked for
But did have a John Bull stamping set
Lego
A pretend sweetie shop complete with little sweets
Monopoly
A post office set too CLKD
Numerous jigsaws ::)
Oh and forgot Teddy. Which I still have in my bedroom ! ;)
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Fab pic of weebles babyjane can anyone remember a tiny doll about the size of a childs hand called sweet April ?
No but I do remember a series of little dollies called Dolly Darlings. I had the Teatime one :)
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I had a John Bull printing set but got fed up lining up the letters into the frame, then turning it over onto the ink pad and then ……… was quicker to write what I wanted!
I couldn't bear the feel of the frame that Fuzzy Felts stuck to >:(
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Me too, I had John Bull but it got taken away from me because I got ink on everything ::)
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I had post office set & sweetie shop set. I ate all the sweets. ::)
We had a roulette wheel which we played with. My brother bought it with pocket money. We gambled with dried peas. ;D
My trusty garden swing. A present for my 5th birthday. Legs had to buried into the ground to keep it from tipping. Had so much fun on that.
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I forgot I had ,sweetie shop too which has set me off thinking of the sweets I used to have in it we should do a,sweet thread !
My favourite were cherry lips, palma violets, cola cubes and pineapple cubes ! My mum loved those coconut sweets with something in the middle and the name has disappeared into my menopause memory ! Coconut macaroons ?
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Too many palma violets and they begin to taste soapy ;D - I vaguely remember a sweetie shop but that might have been my cousin's ……
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Coconut mushrooms ????
I loved crispets !
Come to think of it I love .......sweets ::)
Lemon bonbons
Acid drops
Sweet tobacco
Fruit salads
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Black jacks
Flying sauces
Those 'weebles' are horrible, enough to give kids the heeby jeebies ……….. :o
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They do look a bit scary, but I loved them when I was 4!
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Talking of toys made me remember the agony of accidentally standing on a piece of my brothers' Lego. Owwwwwwww!!!!!!!! :o Anyone else remember this wonderful experience? ;D
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Haha, just caught up with this thread and see that it has expanded to sweets. What about sherbet pips? My dad used to go crazy because he's find the sticky little things all over the house and stuck in the carpets. Does anyone remember liquorice comforts? We used to use them as makeup, red on the lips and blue and green on our eyelids. Once it dried it was difficult opening your eyes! Can you imagine how many e numbers they contained?
I had completely forgotten about my post office, I loved it, how wonderful to remember!
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Space dust and candy cigarettes can you imagine candy cigarettes today!
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Oh I had a scooter ……….. had to share it though :sigh: and my sister was never fair, she would suggest i.e. 6 pushes up and down the pavement but would then push off further away so I couldn't have a go :beat: and my Mum would tell me 'you're the oldest, let her have another go' instead of making her play fair.
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Kaleidoscope. One I had, had little fragments of coloured cellophane in to make the pretty patterns, until one went in my eye & that was the end of that. Before the days of toy safety.
Anyone remember making/ playing with a Cat's cradle?
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Cats cradle yes and a game that involved rhyming and touching your hands onto another persons and yourself! A sailor went to see sea sea etc 😊
Another game that didn't involve anything but ourselves was 'Simon Says' we also used to play 'Rover Rover you cant one over' and ' british bull dog' all rough games but I did have 3 brothers ! A game they used to enjoy was to balance a pile of books or a dish of water on the top of the door and watch with merriment as I went through the door unawares and had it all hit me on the head !
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I had one of those Sparkle, again I'd forgotten about it. This thread has brought back long lost memories - love it!
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Kaliedscope
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I think it was called a footsie they were great 😊
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Footsie, Skip Ball and Skip-It
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I had one of those footsie things too. Loved it. Plus the one with the tennis ball on the post that swung round - can't remember what it was called.
I remember wanting a skateboard but not being allowed one so having to make do with goes on a friends. I did have roller skates though, and absolutely loved making up routines with them. I tried inline skates a few years ago but only when it was very flat, until I fell over on the front path - that was embarrassing :'(
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I was too old for a skateboard ;D - would I have tried it though ???
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Getting old do you mean a,swing ball ? What about them things that were very long nylon cords with handles at each end and a sort of plastic rugby shaped ball on the cord and a,person took each handle and opened their arms and the balll would shoot down the cord to the other person and they would do the same to return it ?
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as usual I 'wasn't allowed one because I would get fed up with it' which translated meant that I wouldn't get one because it cost money :( I had to be content with my cousin's hand me down roller skates and skipping rope but my father did make me some wooden stilts that I got rather good at and an aunt bought me a pogo stick one year :)
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Getting old do you mean a,swing ball ? What about them things that were very long nylon cords with handles at each end and a sort of plastic rugby shaped ball on the cord and a,person took each handle and opened their arms and the balll would shoot down the cord to the other person and they would do the same to return it ?
Yes, I think it was called a swing ball.
Didn't have one of those things with the cords / rugby ball but do remember them
My friend had some stilts, which were actually fence posts with footholds nailed on. I wasn't very good on those, and a pogo stick - fortunately she was a nice friend who shared. She also had some things which looked like upside down flower pots that you stood on, and they had strings attached that you held, which were sort of like stilts because they lifted you about a foot off the ground. Anyone have those?
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Yes I have the rugby ball/cord thingy for my grandchildren and the upside down flower pot shaped stilts with ropes which I got for 20p at a car boot sale.
Loved cats cradles as a child
Great thread, bringing back happy memories
PN x x
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I remember gobstoppers - golf-ball-sized, rock-hard sweets that took ages and ages to suck!
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Sparkle, in my day, early 60's we had a piece of string for around our ankle & an old wooden bobbin. Worked just as well as the rubber ball.
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My mum wouldn't get me a a go-cart. :( So at age of 9 I got my old wooden stool & tied it on to my roller skates. Best bit was that my stool had a cushioned seat. ;D
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did anyone else have a walkie talkie made out of two empty tin cans and a length of string, and did it actually work cos mine didn't. I also had little stones in a tin can to rattle. I don't think we were aware of what we didn't have back then. Can you imagine it today when children seem to be so much more aware of what others have that they don't.
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Yep - as long as the string was kept tight it kind of worked but I could lip read ::)
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Scissors paper stones ! Join the dots on paper to make squares , OXO or nought crosses and a game called consequences where one person would write a boys name on a piece paper fold it over next person write girls name etc the format was boy met girl, where, he said, she said, what happened, the world said ! And similar draw a head fold paper next person draw shoulders etc til had a body !
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On the subject of sweets, did anyone else have that bright yellow lemonade powder? You were supposed to dissolve it in hot water and then cool it down for lemonade, but I liked to eat it straight out of the bag like sherbet! Loved sherbet lemons too, and toffee & lemon bonbons.
Slightly off-topic, but has anyone read 'The Fortnight in September' by R C Sherriff? Thinking about how much simpler things were in the past has reminded me of this book, and I'd recommend it to anyone in a nostalgic mood. It's just about a family going on holiday to the beach for two weeks, but what I love is the way little things are so special to them. Like having Ginger Beer EVERY day because it's a holiday, and how excited they are to collect their 24 photographs from the chemist and how it's really special because this year they have a beach hut with a veranda... It's not much good if you like a book with lots of plot, but I love it because it takes me back to my childhood & reminds me of a time when we weren't so pressured to acquire more, more, more all the time.
We used to go out for tea & cake in a café once on our summer holiday and once just before Christmas. The place we went to just before Christmas had a 'set tea' where you could either have one large slice of gateaux or three little cakes of your choice. I always chose the 3 cakes and used to spend ages deciding which ones to have. I could never manage to eat all 3 so used to take one home and eat it just before bedtime on Christmas eve.
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On the subject of sweets, did anyone else have that bright yellow lemonade powder? You were supposed to dissolve it in hot water and then cool it down for lemonade
Cremola foam?
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Oh yes the yellow powder, like U I ate it from the packet. It tasted insipid when watered down.
Large bubble gum sheets in sweet packets but can't remember which sweets.
White tubes that looked like cigarettes with red tips? Thought I was posh with those though I never went on to smoke ::)
Dad built a sand pit which he covered over at night with a lid - we had toy cars, buckets, spades, old margine tubs to play with in there.
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I remember it came in a cone shaped paper and you licked your finger and dipped it in. It turned the end of your finger yellow. I think it was called something like kali (pronounced kay-lie)
No wonder we had fillings as children ::)
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So to recap: scooter, skipping rope, cycles, roller skates and if we fell, there was a tin of sweeties and Dettol.
Dolls, teddies, sweet shop, post office set; no Mecanno or Lego - that was for the boy cousins ::)
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What about the game where you wrote things on paper and folded the paper into,shape that sat on fingers and someone would choose a number then unfold the paper ?
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paper fortune teller game
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That's it babyjane 😊 lots and lots of simple games hours of entertainment 😊
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Oh we're digging into the depths of memory now ;D. We used to do pencil games; 'hangman' for example.
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Yes hangman can you imagine children playing these games now ? I used to with my son I wonder if he will with his children if he has any
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I know how to draw a giraffe walking by a window as well as a Mexican frying an egg, as well as a black cat in a coal house in the dark ;-)
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Hop skotch ! Has anyone mentioned it I coil spend hours playing that when little and a game where you put twigs on top of a tin can and had knock tem off with a ball I dont know why ! Hide and seek as well
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Yep - hop scotch several pages back ;). I hated hide and seek ….. I was often left behind when the older children went off to play …..
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Snap ! As in got left behind but also snap as in the card game, happy families, old maid, donkey
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Yep, we had ludo which we played as a family on a Sunday evening - no TV in our house until I was 13.
If it was wet Mum would find a large white sheet and a blanket and we would play 'dens' underneath the family table which pulled out ….. OK as long as we didn't put on the legs ;D
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Wracking my brain for board games that I played as a child, but actually have no recollection of any, apart from snakes & ladders. Board games became a feature in my teenage years as my friends had things like Monopoly & Cluedo. Patience, now I played a lot of that! Don't think my mum could be bothered with such things.
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I was taught to play chess at the age of 7 - a 'proper' game. Can't remember that I enjoyed it much but I just did as I was told if it kept parents happy :(
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patience and clock patience with a deck of cards Sparkle :)
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Squares, noughts & crosses both played with paper & pencil like hangman.
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Himself tried to teach me to play chess but it's way too slow for me :D
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paper fortune teller game
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That's brought back memories BJ I used too play that alot I enjoyed making that up.
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Bump
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Buckaroo!!
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Too old for that 1 :D
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Magic Robot 🤖
Ariadne xx
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Magic Robot 🤖
Ariadne xx
Yes I had him :) but my view master was a favourite, so exciting getting new reels. I still have it and when I come across it I can't resist a look at my favourite reels ;D
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Ahh yes, ;D view master.....we had one of them.....
Twister I loved....mind you, I was bendy back then, now I think I'd break my back! :stretcher: ;D
Water balloons were good.....got me into trouble tho..... :kick:
Mr potato head......didn't like him much.... :-\
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>wave< Adriadne
I still have my push along Pedigree dog on wheels very tatty
A doll that walked and talked when I first had her
A teddy that went through all the grandchildren
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victoria plum, jigsaw, bag etc (not the recent bathrm shop).