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Games for the Girls

Di.Poppitt

Di.Poppitt

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
Frocks tucked into knickers, a good wall or a line of boards, and we performed the Handstand. It took me some time to get up the courage to fling my legs at the wall, but what a good feeling I got when I finally managed it. I can see the moves now, a little hop then hands onto the ground and up. I remeber practicing in mom's bedroom, in a gap between the fireplace and the window, and slicing a piece out of my heel when I landed.

After that it was the Crab, bent over backwards and walking along on all fours.

I don't think I ever managed the Cartwheel without falling over.

It was girls only, the boys nevr joined in. :D
 
I used to tuck my frock in my knickers too!! :lol: :oops: :P small world aint it? But seriously, all the girls played like that, and also that game with a ball in a stocking, they banged it round their heads against the wall, chanting some evil incantation, summoning up who knows what little devil or other? :twisted:
 
Michael, what a way to go; stuck in front of a firing squad in your mother's knickers just for being a republican. Your enemies at least had a more dignified death at the hand of Madame Guillotine. 8)
 
I always wore a gymslip so wouild take it off for P.T. or to do handstands - we walked our feet down the wall walking away into what we called a Chinese bend-

We also played double ball - sometimes we used three balls
 
Knickers and Knappies

Never went much for knickers but nappies were the thing in 1938.

Chris
 
Two and a bit, Alf, and enjoying the feeling of sand under the feet.

(One of several taken on one of the few sandy beaches in the South Hams area of Devonshire. Probably East Portlemouth, possibly Lannacombe. Happy days!
Sorry, Di, we're drfting right off-thread......... Can't think of anything relevant to say about girls' games, except to report the horror on my mother's face when she saw me as a ten-year-old trying to emulate the cartwheels of two energetic and gymnastic female friends. She pointed out that little boys were built differently from little girls and the latter's design made them well suited to such antics - whereas I, as a mere male, was risking severe and long-lasting impairment. Never found out if she was right but thereafter restricted myself to manly pursuits more appropriate to my form of construction).

Chris
 
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