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    Donbogen reacted to pjmburns's post in the thread Our childhood toys with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I don't have any of my dolls but do have my original "lost" Teddy bear. (Pic to follow). We lived at Sheldon for about 18 months until...
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    Donbogen reacted to pjmburns's post in the thread Our childhood toys with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Oh yes - those black Inky fingers and those fiddly little letters lol
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    Donbogen reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Our childhood toys with Appreciate Appreciate.
    same here lynn...i spent hours playing with various post office sets i had...think it was that that made me want to go into office work...
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    Elizabeth E replied to the thread WalterThompson; Dance Band.
    HI, Walter was my Grandad and I am trying to trace family members, my mother was from his first marriage, this is a very old thread so...
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    wam replied to the thread Earl Grey.
    I walked past there on the way home from the dentist yesterday. It does have all of the signage on the outside at the side but the...
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    I Am Nico replied to the thread IN OUR GARDENS 2025.
    Yes I bought a pot of Verbena and Yarrow. It spreads fast. The butterflies head for the laurel flowers but they don't last long. Getting...
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    I Am Nico reacted to Morturn's post in the thread IN OUR GARDENS 2025 with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Verbina is another one I grow for the bees, it just seesmt o go on floowering the whole summer
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    I Am Nico replied to the thread Our childhood toys.
    I had a stencil set. I think that is what they were called. Stiff card with cut outs and you put ink or paint over them and lifted them...
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    I Am Nico replied to the thread Our childhood toys.
    Aunty found my little Ted in a tree in Cheltenham in a park.Dad got it down and she washed it, I had it in to my teens.
  • I Am Nico
    I Am Nico reacted to pjmburns's post in the thread Our childhood toys with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Oh yes - those black Inky fingers and those fiddly little letters lol
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    I Am Nico reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Our childhood toys with Appreciate Appreciate.
    same here lynn...i spent hours playing with various post office sets i had...think it was that that made me want to go into office work...
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    Smudger reacted to ChrisM's post in the thread BANNISTER, Mary and Martha with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Yes, Janice, Salisbury was the house in which my mother spent much of her childhood. I suspect that Charles was living next door or next...
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    Smudger reacted to Morturn's post in the thread IN OUR GARDENS 2025 with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Verbina is another one I grow for the bees, it just seesmt o go on floowering the whole summer
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    Smudger reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread IN OUR GARDENS 2025 with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I have several New Zealand Flax plants which throw up spikes of flowers. I'd never have believed it, but the bees absolutely love the...
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    Smudger reacted to Donbogen's post in the thread IN OUR GARDENS 2025 with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Sat on doorstep after breakfast iin Madams front garden with the hounds sunny day garden was alive with bees and odd butterfly s Lovely
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