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Quote from: debster on January 27, 2010, 21:23:17
anyone remember the magic faraway tree series i loved it

Enid Blyton + LSD  :o :o :o

Jacks, hours and hours of fun, I did suggest bringing them back for the playground at school but no one else remembers them.

Quote from: Melbourne12 on January 28, 2010, 21:07:24
Jacks, hours and hours of fun, I did suggest bringing them back for the playground at school but no one else remembers them.

Five stones - similar to jacks but without the ball and the jacks were made of different coloured grooved chalk squares.
Everytime I open up a new shaped Oxo cube it reminds me of that old game.

Two balls against the wall in the school playground, anyone remember playing that?

Ninny

I work in The Ginger Pop Shop, Poole Quay in Dorset which specialises in Enid Blyton books, and when we're not busy can read all the Enid blyton books I want..bliss!

Jacks Tressy and a book "The Family From One End Street" anyone remember that ?

Kirrin castle on kirrin Island..................what a lovely life they had.

I remember the family from One End Street ;D

Does anyone remember the Emile books?

I played two-ball for hours on end, we had loads of rhymes and certain patterns , like under one leg, round your back, and some of us could do three-ball.  It was dirt cheap, good for hand-eye co-ordination, and kept you in the fresh air.  Don't ever remember any boys playing, I wonder why not?
I loved the family from one end street too, was dead impressed with Kate learning stuff by putting the book under her pillow - never worked for me, though!
I had to keep my Bunty pile, passed on from a neighbour, out in the garage cos my mum said they were too untidy for the house.
Anyone remember Curly Wee? I had two old annuals, had to keep those outside too..

Whip & top ?

Quote from: ericelf on January 28, 2010, 23:05:53
I work in The Ginger Pop Shop, Poole Quay in Dorset which specialises in Enid Blyton books, and when we're not busy can read all the Enid blyton books I want..bliss!

My OH's uncle lives around the corner from there.  ;D

Yes, I have the Faraway Tree books and the Wishing Chair series!!!! Enid on acid most definately!  ;D
AND still on Enid-Mallory Towers!!!! my dream school.  ;D

Wow such wonderful memories have bought it all back. I loved Saturday mornings before I started my Saturday job. Mum would go'down the road' to pay the paper bill and collect Bunty, Beano and Dandy for my brothers and me and Red Letter family Star and Women's Weekly for herself. We would still be in bed and as we shared a bedroom- probably illegal now- my brothers and I would read our own comics and the swap with each other.I always dreamt of being a ballet dancer and loved the stories about the ballet dancer. I think her name was Moria. Loved the plaster of Paris moulds. Used to dream of going into big business making and painting the moulds but as said before, I was no good at getting them out whole. They always felt warm when you pulled the rubber mould off. I also like the Airfix kits. Promised myself one day I would get and E type jaguar so bought the Airfix kit and made on. It sat on  my fireplace shelf in my bedroom for years.nearest I have got to that dream is n MG midget that we tow behind our motorhome to get about with when away.Two balls all day long in the summer and we also used to play Tin can Tommy as a group in the street. The more devilish played Knock Down Ginger but I was to frightened to do that in case I got a clump from Mum. Runouts and walking the streets to pick up discarded lolly sticks to weave together to make someting to fly through the air. We also had plane trees planted in the road. We would jump up and grab the lower leaves, hold them across out clenched fist and 'pop them . Once popped we would pull the green down the veins to leave a skeleton of a leaf. At school we made daisy chains on the field. All very simple pleasures but I think healthy in many ways. Think I'd best stop now........

Aaah, lovely memories. I loved making daisy chains and would sit in the playground with my friends making them as if we were being paid!
My sisters and I used to go to my grandparents house every holiday as they were retired and my mum was on her own and had a full-time job.
Our favourite game there was Swallows and Amazons - picnic bench turned over to make a boat, my sister made a flag for the mast (picnic brolly) behind the shed was the island. Also a classic played by my kids now is the Argos game-catalogue each, old phones, Argos slips and paying in slips filched from the bank. Great.  ;D

playground games went in cycles in the 50s- there would be  handstands against the toilet wall (could never do that), chequers (those coloured cubes with corrugated sides), skipping, two-baller, and marbles.  Then there were the slides we were allowed to make when the playground was icy!  I remember playing two- baller on the coal house door at home- lots of lovely memories come back- roller skating and my red scooter- those were the days!

Quote from: Melbourne12 on January 28, 2010, 21:07:24
Jacks, hours and hours of fun, I did suggest bringing them back for the playground at school but no one else remembers them.

They are for sale on ebay - tempting  ::) ::) ::) ::)

Quote from: betula on January 28, 2010, 23:13:15
Does anyone remember the Emile books?

Oh yes!  :) :) :) :) :)

Quote from: gwynnethmary on January 29, 2010, 14:29:17
there would be  handstands against the toilet wall (could never do that),

I can still do that  :o :o :o :o :o

Not such an "asbeen" then!  Am well impressed- I could never do it in the first place, and wouldn't dare try these days!

It's the cartwheels I could never do  ::) ::) ::) ::)

Toy trains ... and my wife bought me a train set for my last birthday  ;D

So I`m doing it all again, so I bought her Barbies for Christmas,

Childhood is wasted on kids, they can`t afford it.

Col

Hopscotch

skipping

Marlies,if you were lucky you won a gobbie.

Gosh I forgot hopscotch, even got my brother playing in the garden (much against his better judgement!) on the flagstones down the side of the house!

Ninny

PS was a gobbie a queenie betula???

LEAPFROG!!!! Bit my tongue flying over someone and still have a flappy bit to show for it!

Quote from: gwynnethmary on January 26, 2010, 12:33:13
Ah, the Bunty!  You brought it all back Betula! Being late for school through reading "The Four Marys" (Mary Simpson was one- who can remember the others?).  My friend and I spent literally hours making clothes for our Bunty dolls, which we used to stick on to card cut from Cornflake packets.  Her Dad used to bring scrap paper home from his office for us....happy days!

I can remember reading the Bunty as a kid, next door neighbour used to give us their daughters copies. Also as an avid fan of my sisters Jackie - not sure I should admit this being 6ft 2in 18stone motorbike fan  ;) Mind you used to love reading My Hotspur, Valiant and Victor comics. I've got quite a few annuals still

Also loved Scalextric (still have loads), lego and my Airfix kits - and No i'm not James MAy