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Originally Posted by Yogi19:
Originally Posted by Scotty:
Originally Posted by Yogi19:
Originally Posted by Scotty:

Grannies playing peever, I love it!

  We called it boxies. 

Not heard that one before, although it was sometimes called "beds".


We called it paldies (pronounced paul-dies) - and our grid was different and had nine boxes  1, 2, 3 in a line, 4,5 side by side, 6, then 7,8 side by side and 9 was a semi circle.  (how do i even remember that?)    We also played another version, skiffies or something, a grid of six and you had to hit the paldie with the side of your foot and skif it into the next box without it landing on a line.  Can't quite remember the full rules there. 

 

 

Kaffs
Originally Posted by KaffyBaffy:
Originally Posted by Yogi19:
Originally Posted by Scotty:
Originally Posted by Yogi19:
Originally Posted by Scotty:

Grannies playing peever, I love it!

  We called it boxies. 

Not heard that one before, although it was sometimes called "beds".


We called it paldies (pronounced paul-dies) - and our grid was different and had nine boxes  1, 2, 3 in a line, 4,5 side by side, 6, then 7,8 side by side and 9 was a semi circle.  (how do i even remember that?)    We also played another version, skiffies or something, a grid of six and you had to hit the paldie with the side of your foot and skif it into the next box without it landing on a line.  Can't quite remember the full rules there. 

 

 

We call it Hopscotch 

Aimee

The Raleigh Grifter (1976-1983)

 

My parents would not even entertain the idea of buying me a Chipper, Chopper, Grifter or even a racing bike. I was forced to endure an entirely plain, square bicycle with zero cool factor attached to it. Still, I had my revenge after leaving school by purchasing a beat-up old Lambretta entirely against their advice!

Cold Sweat
Originally Posted by sprout:

I don't think I ever read the St Clares ones

They weren't any different than the Malory Towers ones, Sprout - except for twins 

Was all lacrosse, horses and lashings of ginger beer   And we weren't allowed to read them at school; I can still see Mrs. Webster's disdainful sneer when I told her I had the full set of both at home   I was only about 8 yrs old..!

Cosmopolitan
Originally Posted by ~Cosmopolitan~:
Originally Posted by Smarting Buttocks:

That is Malory Towers I think Cosmo.  Although it was a long long time ago.

  

 

Anyone ever play jacks?  I think they were called 5 stones too.

 

Yayyy... I can.... but 5 stones were different.... they were like coloured, chalky dice..... with ribbed edges... and you didn't use the ball.... And did anyone remember collecting *scraps*....?

Baz
Originally Posted by Baz:

I can't really remember who is in either series.... I just remember loving them, and wanting to go to boarding school And what about the Chalet School series....

Don't remember the Chalet School, Baz.

We used to have a teacher, Mr. Tutt, who always finished Friday's off with a book.  He'd read a chapter and then the rest of us would take turns to read to the class.  I used to love fridays!  Can't recall many of the books now but one that sticks in my mind (and which my mum bought for me) was One Hundred Million Francs by Paul Berna.

 

 

Cosmopolitan
Originally Posted by Baz:

Yayyy... I can.... but 5 stones were different.... they were like coloured, chalky dice..... with ribbed edges... and you didn't use the ball.... And did anyone remember collecting *scraps*....?

 

Must have got lost in transit and translation then, Baz 'cos I always thought you used a ball with 5 stones too?  Perhaps we did where I lived, eh?  

 

What were *scraps* (they sound like playground punch ups)

Cosmopolitan
Originally Posted by ~Cosmopolitan~:
Originally Posted by Baz:

Yayyy... I can.... but 5 stones were different.... they were like coloured, chalky dice..... with ribbed edges... and you didn't use the ball.... And did anyone remember collecting *scraps*....?

 

Must have got lost in transit and translation then, Baz 'cos I always thought you used a ball with 5 stones too?  Perhaps we did where I lived, eh?  

 

What were *scraps* (they sound like playground punch ups)

  Well we just used to throw them up in the air and try and catch as many as we could o the back of our hands........ Scraps were little paper cut outs, of all sort of things, but mostly Victorian ladies etc....... Oh and what about Pick a Stix???

Baz
Originally Posted by Baz:

  Well we just used to throw them up in the air and try and catch as many as we could o the back of our hands........ Scraps were little paper cut outs, of all sort of things, but mostly Victorian ladies etc....... Oh and what about Pick a Stix???

 

Oooh yeah, we used to throw them up and catch them too - we played that with the jacks as well.  I suppose it depended on who remembered to bring their jacks/stones in to school that day as to how we played the game

 

Yep, remember Pick a Stix - those plus marbles must be the fore runner to Kerplunk, surely?

 

And I had two cut out dollies with 'real' hair - 1 blonde and 1 brunette.  I used to love playing with them as they were really good quality and didn't tear easily.

 

Cinderella shoes..!  Pink plasticky glittery heeled thingies with elastic straps to hold them in place..!!!!  God, they were awful when you look back, and no where near as good as the ones they make for kiddies nowadays

Cosmopolitan
Originally Posted by ~Cosmopolitan~:
Originally Posted by Baz:

  Well we just used to throw them up in the air and try and catch as many as we could o the back of our hands........ Scraps were little paper cut outs, of all sort of things, but mostly Victorian ladies etc....... Oh and what about Pick a Stix???

 

Oooh yeah, we used to throw them up and catch them too - we played that with the jacks as well.  I suppose it depended on who remembered to bring their jacks/stones in to school that day as to how we played the game

 

Yep, remember Pick a Stix - those plus marbles must be the fore runner to Kerplunk, surely?

 

And I had two cut out dollies with 'real' hair - 1 blonde and 1 brunette.  I used to love playing with them as they were really good quality and didn't tear easily.

 

Cinderella shoes..!  Pink plasticky glittery heeled thingies with elastic straps to hold them in place..!!!!  God, they were awful when you look back, and no where near as good as the ones they make for kiddies nowadays

 I was too much of a tom boy for those, but I do remember them....... and I remember having those cut out dolls... with lots of cut out clothes Mind you, i hated dolls.... give me a sword any day

Baz

S'funny Baz, I wasn't into dolls really either. 

Barbie and Sindy left me cold although I'm sure I was bought a Sindy one Christmas, but I did love those flat cardboard cutouts!   I used to ride my bike wearing my Cinderellas and as the brakes didn't work, the shoes soon fell apart

I think my favourite toy back then was my doll's house (never had a doll for it though);  my dad was an electrician so he added a few extra lights to it.  It looked like a gin palace

 

I was the envy of my mates for that.

Grace Brown and Wendy Paul, if you're reading this you KNOW you were

 

Cosmopolitan
Originally Posted by ~Cosmopolitan~:

S'funny Baz, I wasn't into dolls really either. 

Barbie and Sindy left me cold although I'm sure I was bought a Sindy one Christmas, but I did love those flat cardboard cutouts!   I used to ride my bike wearing my Cinderellas and as the brakes didn't work, the shoes soon fell apart

I think my favourite toy back then was my doll's house (never had a doll for it though);  my dad was an electrician so he added a few extra lights to it.  It looked like a gin palace

 

I was the envy of my mates for that.

Grace Brown and Wendy Paul, if you're reading this you KNOW you were

 

Baz
Originally Posted by ~Cosmopolitan~:
Originally Posted by Baz:

 

 

Cinderella shoes..!  Pink plasticky glittery heeled thingies with elastic straps to hold them in place..!!!!  God, they were awful when you look back, and no where near as good as the ones they make for kiddies nowadays

OMG!   I remember coveting them for months... the local sweetie shop/confectioner sold toys too and they had them on display.   I was over the moon when i finally got a pair.    Loved them.     They also had one of those money boxes shaped like a chocolate vending machine that dispensed Cadbury's miniatures for 2p (or 1d more likely!)    Speaking of which - who remembers proper vending machines stuck to outside walls that dispensed chewy and chocolate bars?  (and fags of course)

 

I remember collecting scraps too, Baz.   All seems a bit pointless when you look back eh?   

Kaffs

Hurrah..!  K-Bo, you remember the shoes   And of course I can recall the Cadbury's choccy machines;  I think you can still get them now on sites like iwoot etc.

My mate's upgraded and got herself a humungus M&M's choccy dispenser.  It's a big globe shaped thing and you just turn the dial and it serves up a perfect handful of those irrisistible peanut coated chocs.........

 

I used to get 10 Number 6 out of vending machines whilst wearing my school uniform and trying to look inconspicuous (wearing a straw boater too!)

Cosmopolitan
Originally Posted by Aimee:

Can anyone remember playing 2 ball against the wall  when my nana died and we emptied her house, i found the 2 tennis balls i used too play with, i've had them for years and my daughter wanted to have a go when she was little first time she did she threw it straight onto the roof 

 

 

We called that doublers.     We also had a game that was a bit lethal... put the tennis ball in the foot of a pair of old tights or stockings, standing back to the wall and swinging it back and forth so it hit the wall in various places - left side, right side, between your legs, above your head, right of your head, left of your head.  One wrong move and you were concussed....

 

Loving this thread.

Kaffs
Originally Posted by Rexi:

Yogi - "name the five original Watch With Mother programmes" was one of the questions in our pub quiz a few weeks ago.

 

Shows our age - but we got every one

Never mind Rexi, at least you still have your memory..

Soozy, you missed out Bill and Ben. I think "Watch With Mother" was a collective heading for the other programmes.

Yogi19
Originally Posted by Yogi19:
Originally Posted by Rexi:

Yogi - "name the five original Watch With Mother programmes" was one of the questions in our pub quiz a few weeks ago.

 

Shows our age - but we got every one

Never mind Rexi, at least you still have your memory..

Soozy, you missed out Bill and Ben. I think "Watch With Mother" was a collective heading for the other programmes.

It certainly was Yogi And Listen With Mother on the wireless

Baz
Originally Posted by Yogi19:
Originally Posted by Rexi:

Yogi - "name the five original Watch With Mother programmes" was one of the questions in our pub quiz a few weeks ago.

 

Shows our age - but we got every one

Never mind Rexi, at least you still have your memory..

Soozy, you missed out Bill and Ben. I think "Watch With Mother" was a collective heading for the other programmes.

How c ould I possibly have forgotten Bill and Ben 

Soozy Woo
Originally Posted by Soozy Woo:
Originally Posted by Yogi19:
Originally Posted by Rexi:

Yogi - "name the five original Watch With Mother programmes" was one of the questions in our pub quiz a few weeks ago.

 

Shows our age - but we got every one

Never mind Rexi, at least you still have your memory..

Soozy, you missed out Bill and Ben. I think "Watch With Mother" was a collective heading for the other programmes.

How c ould I possibly have forgotten Bill and Ben 

"Flobabdob".

Yogi19

downloaded;

the last couple of weeks

 

the singing ringing tree (again-cos my last one went AWOL)

the adventures of robinson crusoe 1964 - robert hoffman

escape into night 1972

children of the stones

and

todays download is

spend spend spend-viv nicholson, the pools winner

i keep downloading stuff and it gets *borrowed*

*ie never see it again

 

 

 

pirate1111
Originally Posted by pirate1111:

downloaded;

the last couple of weeks

 

the singing ringing tree (again-cos my last one went AWOL)

the adventures of robinson crusoe 1964 - robert hoffman

escape into night 1972

children of the stones

and

todays download is

spend spend spend-viv nicholson, the pools winner

i keep downloading stuff and it gets *borrowed*

*ie never see it again

 

 

 

loved the singing ringing tree even if the stories were weird and the tune to Robinson Crusoe is one of my abiding memories of childhood 

FM

I had a Raleigh Fourteen bike, the only bike I ever had until I was an adult an bought my own.  It looked like the kind of bike a circus monkey would ride, very tiny wheels.

 

We used to ride our bikes around the 'Wall of death' which was a waste hill on an old brick works next to where I lived.  I wasn't impressed when that old lad got sold off for house development.

 

I read all of Mallory Towers and The magic Faraway Tree.

 

Has anyone mentioned Spangles yet?

 

Or buying a bag of chips on a Friday night, and it cost you 10p?

Cinds
Originally Posted by Pengy:
 

 

 

 

loved the singing ringing tree even if the stories were weird and the tune to Robinson Crusoe is one of my abiding memories of childhood 

i loved that

though i never went to school-it was school holiday stuff

and im after a name of a programme i used to watch

someone told me the name ages ago-memory of a gnat-i cant remember it

back in abit

pirate1111
Originally Posted by pirate1111:
Originally Posted by Baz:
Originally Posted by Syd:

The Fry's bar....was a box of chocolates in a bar....

Ooooo I used to love those..... lime, strawberry, vanilla . orange, and another flavour fillings, all in one bar.....


ewwwwwwwww

my old man used love them and turkish delight

 

I liked Fry's turkish , but it was quite sickly.....

Baz
Originally Posted by pirate1111:
Originally Posted by Baz:
Originally Posted by Syd:

The Fry's bar....was a box of chocolates in a bar....

Ooooo I used to love those..... lime, strawberry, vanilla . orange, and another flavour fillings, all in one bar.....


ewwwwwwwww

my old man used love them and turkish delight

 

This Old lady loved em too..........ooooooh and Frys Turkish Delight too........

Syd
Originally Posted by Soozy Woo:
Originally Posted by Cold Sweat:

Smuggler (1981). Swashbuckling children's TV series starring Oliver Tobias and the lovely Lesley Dunlop.

Oliver Tobias was in some sort of Viking thing as well wasn't he? My recollections are hazy but there was a character called Kai .........or something like that.

That would have been Arthur of the Britons - I can vaguely recall the rousing theme music (and Brian Blessed maybe?) - but little else!

Cold Sweat
Originally Posted by Soozy Woo:
Originally Posted by kattymieoww:

"How" ...informative kids show on "how do you get..etc"A panel of four would answer/ask "How" ,when I Googled there were too many results ,over 1000 million actually.I'm not searching that lot!

Do you mean 'How' with Jack Hargreaves, Fred Dineage and Bunty?

 

That's it Soozy,

kattymieoww

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