General Chat

can you remeber having a bike tyre and a stick and bowling it along

Can remember my mum making a pan of chips and putting them in paper for all the kids lol

Linda xx

Lovely thread!

I remember playing elastics, knucklebones,marbles, conkers and we used to make 'stilts' from old cans with string attached and then walk on them!

Thoses were the days....rolling around in the grass after it had just been mown, not a care in the world!

Yes Linda and our old dog used to chase it and knock it over.... can hear my self crying now...Mammie call Glen he's spoiling oor game

Cowboys and indians! ...... and practicing in the woods with home made bows and arrows, catapults and slings ( at old tin cans )..... I always thought the boys had so much more fun than us girlies playing with dolls.......You can tell I was a Tomboy lol

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Two cans on a string used as a 'telephone'...strung across the road or next door...

oooh yes....I remember that, Polly.

Remember going the the matinee on a saturday pinching rhubarb out the alottments, bag of sugar and all the kids sharing, boos when the indians came on, and all stamping our feet for the cowboys.

We used to attach playing cards on the spokes on our bikes with pegs...they made a wikid noise when you rode around! Did anyone else do that?

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can any of the girls remember those cardboard dolls and you had different outfits made of paper

also an remember having Cotton spool dad used to put 4 tacks in think it was called cork wool and this made a colloured plaited wool

Linda xx

oh yea Mojo forgot about that one.

I had loads of the dressing dolls especially the baby one....also collecting and exchanging scrapes remember them?

lol Mo...yes...you just reminded me.....made a lot of din.

Granny, I also remember taking empty bottles back to get money for them, until some bright spark decided to whip round the back of the store where they kept them in crates and took the same ones back time after time. The store owner then put a stop to children taking them back and asked for adults only.

remember you also used to take the money off coupons from magazines to the shop and he would give you sweeties for them

Hope you all have fun putting your memories on here, just going to do my Mums shopping and will be back later, please keep this going as I think we could all do with some fun and laughter.

Granny

Don't forget to get the box of 'broken biscuits' ooh they were luverly.

And the size of the Mars bars and Bountys......they were huge compared to what they are today.....oh yes and the wagon wheels.

Susan you used to get 10p for every bottle you brought back!

Could buy alot of sweets for 10p in those days!

Keep it going of out now have fun xxxxHowie

What a lovely thread Granny. I remember most of the things already stated. We were lucky to live near open ground that a brook ran through, mostly only 3/4" of water in but quite wide because it did flood occasionally. There were two sewer pipes that crossed it and we would use them, rather than the bridge. Had great fun but not so funny if we fell off and went home dripping. The open ground had lots of lumps and bumps and ditches in it and we had our own fun biking park. Not so funny when you got a puncter and were read the riot act as dad fixed it. Also had a tree the remants of an old oak. No branches on it and it was like the tower of Pisa. We called it the running up tree and thats what we did, run up it and sat in a hollow on the top. All the dens that we built along the banks of the brook and the fights that broke out between different groups over which one belonged to who's group. We use to be out all day too. Put our dolls in their prams and walk for miles. Remember dressing up my Nan's old dog and pushing her around in a pushchair. She loved it. And what about the swings. Taking them up as high as you felt safe and then jumping off and remembering to duck out of the way quick before it came back and thumped you.
Sorry think I started to write a book here, best get back to the h....w..k.

I remember those **Linda...cant do it now though cos they were made of wood those days.I think you can buy one but not so much fun as making your own.

My Mother taught us all to embroider, crochet and knit and sew by hand......Just didn't have the patience to teach my own chldren as they didn't seem interested...Now they are older they ask me.

I would be interested to know what the boys got up to in them thar days.

You had a dolls Pram Linda RSJ????.....hmm! thats not fair!.....I wanted one!

sorry folks I deleted the above...It was a duplicate.GR is playing up again.