General Chat

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

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

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?

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?

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!)

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!!!

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.

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.

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!!

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

I remember making mud pies and baking them in the sun. hop scotch. playing with dollies pretending to be a pop star with a tennis racket as a guitar playing in the dingle ( a small wood at the back of my house) british bull dogs, oh the memories bursting tar bubbles in the road and getting tar all over my knic**** and my mum getting mad.

Apart from all the usual outdoor games,I remember using my mums wire fire guard,turned on end like a pyramid,a sheet thrown over it,and me and my brother suddenly became spacemen, or whatever the imagination made you. Barry

Here's a few more Simon says releivio (sp)?? kick the can hide n seek i spy (with my little eye) catch - baseball catch - football ( i guess to you that would be a rugby ball) baseball road hockey tag plus others Neil

Incy, wincy spider Climbing up the spout. Down came the rain And washed the spider out. Out came the sun And dried up all the rain, So incy wincy spider Climbed up the spout again.

An indoor game that comes to mind is "pass the parcel". What about this ditty: Inky pinky spider climbing up the wall .......... had a fall Who knows this ditty?

Isn't it a shame that 'british bulldog' and even skipping is banned in some - no most schools now, as children may injure themselves and sue!!! No such thing as an accident anymore. There's no wall for playing two balls (schools built in the 60's and 70's - all window no wall). As for kiss chase - this may offend some people! I'm getting on a bit, but glad I could 'do my own thing' in my childhood, unlike children of today.

I used to be Wyatt Earp with a two gun holster. My older brother and sister were the baddies and we would ride our horses (arms of my nan's chair and sofa) over the range. Also used to drop plastic bags filled with water from the top floor of the flats=great fun! Book on skate - down the black hill Run outs Tin Tan Tommy British Bull Dog Two balls Ball in stocking Hand stands Hee ball Cowboys and Indians - all the kids on the estate would join in. Teachers Shops with my Mum's groceries Libraries - with all my books. I stamped them in and out, LOL. Funnily enough, I now work in the Library section of a local council - but not with the public. Indoors with my three brothers we played The Human Slide - we would all link up off the top bunk and one of us would slide down the human slide. Another indoor game - Horse racing over the human jumps. It was a good way to give my brothers a kick ha ha Kathy

skipping whip & top(boy! did i belt that top up the road!!) roller skates kiss chase postmans knock british bull dog war(with the boys!the girls were nurses) marbles off the ground tick higher&higher chalking on the walls,and your mum would go mad!! bikes kids don't seem to play these days do they!! we would play out all summer,never in the house untill your mum called you in when it started to go dark. OH! nearly forgot--------doll & pram! you don't seem to see little girls with prams now do you! i did see one a few years ago,and i thought it was so nice,brought all the memories back,and then she reached into her pram and brought out--------------a mobile phone!!!!!!!! how times have changed! chris.

hi, i remember playing the thing with a tennis ball in a pair of tights but i cant remember what that was called & that was in the 80's cats cradle french skipping double dutch skipping(2 ropes) knives fork spoons & jellywobbles (dont ask!!) to name but a few

Maggie, I can remember I had one of those ankle ball things in the mid 70's, cannot remember what it was made of then but I know I ended up with a good few bruises! Sue