General Chat

I was very protective of my Weeble Wobbles....

Weebles wobble but they don't fall down !

Spirograph, Sindy, Clackers, pogo stick and stilts to name a few

One Christmas I was bought an Evil Kinevil!! Woohoo! Because it was a toy for the boys I was the coolest girl in school.

Did anyone else have a tatty old bit of elastic to do French skipping? Used to play that for hours...

yep did the french skipping...and those clackers hurt if they whacked you....and mind the circle round the ankle with a ball attatched to twizz and jump over

Did anyone else play 'Kerby' in the street with a football ? - Bouncing the ball against the opposite kerb and you got another go if it bounced back to you and you caught it

always had soldiers tanks and guns for indoors and bikes footballs for outdoors. I still got the metal waste bin that my first leather football without laces came in at xmas 1967 was a few other bits too

Sorry being ignorant, what are Clackers?

Clackers were banned in my school because of wrist injuries !

Teresa 1956 I was born lol....yes Ginny played kerby.....and jacks.....and marbles.......and we used to swap beads and all sorts

hyah feeling like an old one now lol ..... we not have spirographs, weevils, wombles or wotever in my day .... but we had fun .... certain times of theyear u played marbles, then it be whip and top and we used to color top of the tops with chalk, hop scotch, skipping ropes, conkers etc etc xxxx

Balls!! Dolls Pram,skipping rope, Jacks,French Knitting with a cotton reel with pins stuck in the top, Board games like Ludo,snakes & ladders. cut out paper figures that you cut out the clothes for & dressed. Sure there were more but cant recall at the mo. I was a WW2 kid so often had to make own amusement

Clackers were two hard balls....oops that sounds rude....on string and you had to get them to hit each other upwards and downward and keep it going,.......caused some broken wrists and even sore noses but it was fun

Shirley, yep I remember the cut out dolls that you had to dress

Teresa & Kate Oh how I loved those cut out dolls ,they were so much better dressed than ME!!! altho,bless em, my parents did their very best for us all,we were a big family & clothes had to be practical & able to be passed down the line for maiximum wear. We were well cared for but no frills. Shilrley

I still have my Spirograph! (not in its original box though) Magic Robot - I go bored with it after about half an hour, when I'd sussed out how it worked. Drove my (younger) sisters mad with it though, cos I was always right! Skipping with plastic-covered clothes line, that really hurt your ankles if you were too slow when 'whipping'

I used to love each Christmas getting a snow house or castle which you delved into for pressies, lots of tat but oh the excitement of what was coming out next. Shirley

my sister had a tressy doll - but someone cut off its hair so it didn't grow back LOL

Karen, I don't remember Tressy Dolls, but, I did have a Girls World. It was a big dolls head where you could style her hair and put make up on it. I didn't like it very much though it was a freaky looking thing...