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-   -   Nostalgia (https://britishexpats.com/forum/barbie-92/nostalgia-776264/)

Sherlock Holmes Oct 31st 2012 4:48 pm
Re: Nostalgia
 
Originally Posted by brissybee (Post 10360152)
I suspect this could date me but anyway, here goes...

Marbles.

Jacks.

Averting eyes from the flasher at the hedge. :eek:
Talking of flashers, I was on duty at the front counter one day in the 80s and this very posh woman came in. She was dressed in a tweed skirt-suit, a twinset and pearls and wore an alpine hat. She also had an umbrella.

She burst in through the door and said, "I just wanted to tell you that I was in the park just now and this man exposed his penis to me. So I pointed at it with the end of my umbrella and said, 'Is that the best you can do' and he ran orf."

She then rushed out of the office again.

brissybee Oct 31st 2012 4:50 pm
Re: Nostalgia
 
Originally Posted by carolinephillips (Post 10359744)
Elastics- which we called French Skipping. Skipping (under the moon and over the stars) but the best one was making jumps in the back garden out of dustbins and brooms, or whatever we could get our hands on, and then be horses and jump over them.
Also seasonal games like conkers and snowball fights ( the latter was rare as we lived in Wiltshire, which isn't generally snowy.)
I was a horse too. :thumbsup:

If it wasn't nailed down it became a jump.

brissybee Oct 31st 2012 4:51 pm
Re: Nostalgia
 
Originally Posted by Sherlock Holmes (Post 10360191)
Talking of flashers, I was on duty at the front counter one day in the 80s and this very posh woman came in. She was dressed in a tweed skirt-suit, a twinset and pearls and wore an alpine hat. She also had an umbrella.

She burst in through the door and said, "I just wanted to tell you that I was in the park just now and this man exposed his penis to me. So I pointed at it with the end of my umbrella and said, 'Is that the best you can do' and he ran orf."

She then rushed out of the office again.
:rofl::rofl::rofl:

Laights Oct 31st 2012 5:06 pm
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'Stuck in the mud', one person was 'it' they had to tag people, if you got tagged you had to stand with your legs open and to free you one of the others had to crawl through your legs:rofl:

Geordie George Oct 31st 2012 5:17 pm
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British Bulldog, which had some rhyme about picking someone to be on your side and then a kind of tug of war, using the last two people to be picked. IIRC.

Kick can. That was kinda like hide and seek - one person was it, everyone else went to hide. It had to find everyone while, at the same time, stopping the others from coming out of hiding and kicking over the can. This sounds crap, but used to be awesome fun. Honest.

Famous 5 Oct 31st 2012 5:45 pm
Re: Nostalgia
 
Originally Posted by carolinephillips (Post 10360187)
I was Urchfont's silver jubilee space hopper champion in 1977- won a jubilee mug!!
Excellent :thumbsup:

rasen78 Oct 31st 2012 5:48 pm
Re: Nostalgia
 
Originally Posted by carolinephillips (Post 10360187)
I was Urchfont's silver jubilee space hopper champion in 1977- won a jubilee mug!!
Cool:thumbup: We've got a space hopper - great for bouncing into a pool;) I have a video somewhere if ROMFT doing this into the paddling pool. Wonder how much it would be worth for me NOT to post it:lol:

Sherlock Holmes Oct 31st 2012 6:24 pm
Re: Nostalgia
 
Originally Posted by rasen78 (Post 10360217)
Cool:thumbup: We've got a space hopper - great for bouncing into a pool;) I have a video somewhere if ROMFT doing this into the paddling pool. Wonder how much it would be worth for me NOT to post it:lol:
Whatever he says, I'll double it. :D

rasen78 Oct 31st 2012 6:31 pm
Re: Nostalgia
 
Originally Posted by Sherlock Holmes (Post 10360232)
Whatever he says, I'll double it. :D
To post or not to post :demon:

paulry Oct 31st 2012 9:13 pm
Re: Nostalgia
 
Originally Posted by rasen78 (Post 10360138)
That used to get so many boys into trouble at Grammar School:lol: Gambling dontcha know and that wasn't allowed;)
It's a great game. Pure skill :D

paulry Oct 31st 2012 9:21 pm
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...Then in my early 20's we graduated to "quarters" where we took it in turn to try and bounce a coin off the table and into a glass of beer. If the coin landed in the drink you got to nominate who must down the beer and catch the coin between their teeth. :beer:

moneypenny20 Oct 31st 2012 9:26 pm
Re: Nostalgia
 
All of the above. :lol:

old.sparkles Oct 31st 2012 9:27 pm
Re: Nostalgia
 
Originally Posted by paulry (Post 10360392)
It's a great game. Pure skill :D
It used to get me my lunch money :D

lesleys Oct 31st 2012 10:00 pm
Re: Nostalgia
 
Originally Posted by Sherlock Holmes (Post 10360130)
Did anyone else push their Dinky / Gorgi toys around? :o
Yes. I had my own from a early age (and still have the double decker bus) then my young bro went mad for them and had over 200. I remember the first Corgi coming out. Don't forget Matchbox toys.

Also hula hoop, Meccano, Airfix kits, click-clacks. Lots of skipping, tag, one called 'What time is it Mr Wolf?', hand-stands against the wall and walking on hands, climbing poles and swinging round them, ice slides.

moneypenny20 Oct 31st 2012 10:32 pm
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Spent a whole summer playing on a nearby new estate. 30 houses all being built at the same time and all open. We had a ball, none of us got hurt or damaged anything and no one told us to sod off.:lol:


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