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Our childhood toys

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Lemonella said:
My kids were terrified of Santa in department stores, they found him really scary!
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I wasn't. I didn't want to upset him in any possible way, in case he didn't come down my chimney, or heavens forbid, didn't give me the present that I had queued so patiently for. I was convinced that he would give the best presents, to the kids who were the best behaved and it wasn't a risk worth taking back then, for me to play up. I got a red space gun once, it certainly worked that time. ;)
 
not exactly a toy but the other week my grandaughter 4 in january came round with a box of coloured chalks and asked if she could use my slabs out back to draw on them...of course i said yes and straight away i was transported back to the days when i used to mark out hop scotch on the pavements...cost us nothing but we had hours of fun.. :)

lyn
 
Astoness said:
not exactly a toy but the other week my grandaughter 4 in january came round with a box of coloured chalks and asked if she could use my slabs out back to draw on them...of course i said yes and straight away i was transported back to the days when i used to mark out hop scotch on the pavements...cost us nothing but we had hours of fun.. :)

lyn
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Yes
we never had chalk we used abit of broken brick/stone or Slate
 
Lloyd said:
How easily pleased we were!
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I still am. Our grandchildren are too if they were only allowed to be. The little one loves playing with the jumping frog, from a Christmas Cracker. We have a reserved table sign and we flip it to each other over that. He has a ball which has sections and you squash it down and it springs back. I put his little duck on top and we catch the duck. Or throw the ball to each other outside and bounce it off the chair. I had a slide projector too, some of them were bible stories, the boy who cried wolf and Joan of Arc that I remember.
 
Ray T said:
Does anybody else remember Zetas from their early 60s Birmingham childhood? They were little delta-winged plastic planes that launched from a small catapult that came with them. They zoomed and soared impressively during their short flights. Quite uncontrollable, though!
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I think so and the Balsa wood ones with cardboard wings and you weighted the nose with a penny.
 
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