General Chat

I remember clackers Karen. Mine were red, i also remember all the girls having permanent purple-blue bumps on their wrist bones lol.

Well Karen, They don't make toys like they used to do they!!!!!!! (said/typed with a shaky voice) I've still got a wearable pair of Doc Martens I wore as a (two-tone) skinhead nearly 30 years ago!!

Would like to add Knock Down Ginger, Not that I partisipated in this game at all with my friends! Well I HAD TO RUN when my friends knocked otherwise I would have certinly got the blame for something.

erm, let me see... bulldog, definitely remember that marbles rounders I'm sure there were more but that's all I can think of for now.

DOES ANYONE REMEMBER EVER COLLECTING SPIDERS WEBS DURING THE FREEZING COLD ICY MONTHS WHEN THE WEBS STOOD OUT BOLDLY. WE GOT A Y SHAPED TWIG AND SWIRLED IT OVER THE WEB, WE NEVER SAW THE SPIDERS. AFTER GETTING QUITE A FEW LIKE THIS IT ALL BEGAN TO SHINE, LOOKED LOVELY. i FEEL SORRY NOW FOR ALL THOSE SPIDERS THAT HAD TO SPIN IT ALL AGAIN, WHAT YOU DID WHEN YOU WERE A KID EH!!!

Karen, I'll freely admit to being a skinhead, but it hurts to admit to having an original mullett! ( too much of a coward to shave it off, and I would have been suspended from school anyway!)

We did elastics although we called in Jingle Jangle after the rhyme we used. Jingle, jangle, centre, spangle, jingle. jangle, out. I also used to do the ball in a sock game but can't remember any rhymes. Two balls -to Please Miss Please Miss, my mother miss, can I tell you this miss, that I miss, my mother miss, will go to school tomorrow miss. and many other rhymes that escape me. At various words you had to miss the word out or clap or throw one of the balls in the air or bounce it on the floor. Hubby is impressed that I can still do it and with 3 balls too. Also handclaps to: A sailor went to sea, sea, sea to see what he could see, see, see but all that he could see, see, see was the bottom of the deep blue sea, sea, sea. everytime you mentioned see/sea you saluted. Who stole the cookies from the cookery jar? Number one stole the cookies from the cookery jar Who me? Yes you? Couldn't have been Then who? And so on.... Run outs, british bulldog kiss chase Champ Sting ball - especially painful if you were hit with a wet tennis ball on bare legs! Pat-a-ball had Star Wars Does anyone remember using "fang lights" to escape being caught?

Thank you Bob - what a memory. I also remember on the way to school collecting spiders' webs. I also remember scrumping my mother's friends Victoria plum tree with the two boys next door. They were sent as punishment to their bedroom without food and my brother and I were let off. We did hand up food to the boys by rope though. Oh I wonder where those two Jewish boys are now. Michael and Brian Elias, from NW London. Can you hear me?

I can vividly remember sliding across the lino in my socks - Mum shouting "You'll hurt yourself doing that!" - next stop the Hospital with broken arm. I thought I was the next Olympic Ice Dance Champion. No carpets in our house, only lino which incidentally is still the best thing instead of ice for sliding! Jacqui

What a good thing that our children/grandchildren couldn't see us as we were!!