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What kind of things do you remember from Childhood
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AnninGlos | Report | 10 Feb 2024 08:31 |
Cardboard cut out dolls Mel? I had hours of fun with those. |
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Mel Fairy Godmother | Report | 9 Feb 2024 21:55 |
O Mandy was it a Veiwmaster? I had one of those and I remember one disc thing had the dutch bulb fields on it. |
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Mel Fairy Godmother | Report | 9 Feb 2024 21:47 |
The pics are lovely Vera whhat were you worried about. I love the willows. |
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MillymollyAmanda | Report | 9 Feb 2024 21:11 |
Oh I did some embroidery too but I did chair backs |
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AnninGlos | Report | 9 Feb 2024 20:45 |
One of the sets I remember were pictures with all pin holes around them and cottons to sew through the holes. Then when I was about 10 my mum taught me basic embroidery stitches and I embroidered tray cloths. |
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MillymollyAmanda | Report | 9 Feb 2024 18:19 |
Evening all, |
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SuffolkVera | Report | 9 Feb 2024 16:13 |
£10 a go Mel for the chiropodist!! I'm moving down your way. I pay £39 and my lady isn't the dearest round here. The only thing is that your man presumably only spends a few minutes with each client if he can get through 30 or more in a day. I get 30 mins. I hope your feet feel nice and comfortable now. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 9 Feb 2024 15:50 |
Interesting reading that thread Gwyn thanks. I had forgotten that I had a proper canopy for the dolls pram. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 9 Feb 2024 15:43 |
Vera thank you for the photos. what a lovely place to visit. The photos are very good and the colours are vibrant. I think I could see magnolias as well as snowdrops. really nice. |
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Mel Fairy Godmother | Report | 9 Feb 2024 15:06 |
Back from the foot man I had to pay for last times as I had forgotten my purse so he had a double payment today and mines only £10 a go. I asked if he had had many today as he's only there on a Friday once a month and he said he had had 30 then me and as I went out another man went in. So he had taken at least £320 today and may have had more after me as my appointment was for 2pm. |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 9 Feb 2024 10:38 |
Some toy memories here.... |
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AnninGlos | Report | 9 Feb 2024 10:15 |
I have to say about toys when I was little, it was definitely dolls etc for girls and cars etc for boys. I had a best friend, a boy, our gardens met at the end of the plots and we played a lot together from a young age. I just loved to play in his garden with his cars, making roads in the mud. And when it was wet I played in his house and as we got older I really liked his meccano set, would have loved one myself. I did have a house building set with different shaped pieces coloured with 'bricks' and roofs that folded so would look like a proper roof when the gabled end bricks were put on correctly. the bricks were made of a type of stone so broke if dropped on a hard surface but I had hours of fun with that set. I have never seen anything like it since. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 9 Feb 2024 10:08 |
Well with my memory I wouldn't like to say that I would have remembered posting it but I think we may have not mentioned these specifics. anyway, it is fun to have a recap. :-D |
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Mel Fairy Godmother | Report | 9 Feb 2024 09:49 |
Morning all, |
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AnninGlos | Report | 9 Feb 2024 08:24 |
Good morning all very wet here but our yoyo temperature is back up to 11 degrees. |
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Mel Fairy Godmother | Report | 8 Feb 2024 23:26 |
I too had a scooter it was a Mo Jo red and yellow. That was the other book Hans Anderson Fairy Tales with the Grims. I always had the beano annual and the Dandy and Rupert. My dad made my swing and my dolls house the same as the bungalow we lived in and I too had a homemade rocking horse nothing like the one I wanted. It was a rectangle box with a cut out head (nothing like a horses head really) and it had a maroon padded seat nothing like a sadle and its mane and tail was made from polumbing hemp. It was painted white with a handle put through it neck to hang on to. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 8 Feb 2024 20:15 |
Glad your OH’s eyes were ok Ann and that you managed to fight your way through the traffic. It is horrendous in our village at school home time,m even though they have different end times all the schools seem to be on the roads at once completely choking the village as there are three primary and two senior schools in the village. |
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Annx | Report | 8 Feb 2024 19:02 |
I missed you there Mandy! Even OH has said he will try to get earlier appointments in future after seeing all the traffic. I came home a different way after picking him up, but they were coming out of one of the senior schools that way and cars and parents everywhere! I know what you mean about chilly necks as I had mine cut this week too and put a thick scarf on today. I never had a swing or scooter or a rocking horse that I wanted! I think OH was a bit worried about his eyes needing to be checked, but was really pleased they are ok. |
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Annx | Report | 8 Feb 2024 18:51 |
Oh yes, I'd forgotten I had Rupert Annuals and Hans Anderson fairy tales. I also had a walkie talkie doll and mum called her Mary as I couldn't think of a name! Like Gwyn I had a plastic teaset. After seeing one at a house mum would work at and would take me at times, I had a spinning top that hummed. Lots of toys were painted metal then and held together with bent over metal tabs. The top had lovely pictures painted on it. After seeing a kaleidoscope there too I got one of those one Christmas and loved that. |
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MillymollyAmanda | Report | 8 Feb 2024 18:35 |
Evening all, |