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  • fc123
    fc123 Posts: 6,573 Forumite
    Geenie wrote: »
    So did I! Blue Peter came into it's own at Xmas time when a child. We made the large sweetie jar snow man, covered in cotton wool and filled with Quality Street, and of course the wire coat hanger thingy with candles, whose name I forget! :o Licking paper chains and making our own cards.....it was so simple then.

    My highlight when a kid at Xmas, was getting one of those big books of cardboard dolls, with all the different clothes you pressed out and then put on in varying combinations! Had hours of fun with those. :cool:

    They made up for the fact my mother would never buy me a Sindy doll! :cry:
    OMG I loved those cut out doll paper books...would make new cut out outfits myself....was good practise for the job I do now.

    I always made stuff with my kids...more for the fun of it really...stopped them getting bored.
    Our crackers never snapped properly plus we all knew what the useless gift was inside....because we had bought them from the Million Useless Things for a Pound Shop
    My big regret was chucking out all the home made tree decorations we made over the years when we moved...it looked like a big box of old rubbish sprinkled with sparkles, old pine cones, flour and water models, twiggy things...

    I still make cards every year....not on the PC either;) ...don't know if I will have time this year....plus haven't got any small kids in the house to delegate it to anymore.
  • hethmar
    hethmar Posts: 10,678 Forumite
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    Id forgotten about the cut out doll clothes books - lol - yes they were brill werent they with the little tabs to fit them on the doll. Do they still make them? And the little press out theatres you could make and then the little people to do the acting - lol, what fun it was then. Dont envy the kids really now.
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    http://bp3.blogger.com/_fM5_4Z1BI14/RyAFBIBtCEI/AAAAAAAAAjg/5IRfn3z-SRA/s1600-h/page+1+clothes.jpg
    And more from: http://kathleen-dakotadreams.blogspot.com/2007/10/thursday-tab-special-wednesday-edition.html

    Also from the same blog:
    http://bp2.blogger.com/_fM5_4Z1BI14/RxdxQZz8QUI/AAAAAAAAAgw/GFfC5_CEQbw/s1600-h/1+bride+clothes.jpg

    Loads more on there too :)
  • Davesnave
    Davesnave Posts: 34,741 Forumite
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    hethmar wrote: »
    Dont envy the kids really now.

    I do, but only because those next door have one of those brilliant radio-controlled helicopters!

    Apart from that,there's nothing I envy. They have none of the freedoms we had. One of the saddest things was when I took my kids to the river & woods near my home town and showed them where I'd played, built dens, lit fires etc. It was overgrown; the paths all gone, because no one went there any more.

    Even in those days, Brady & Hindley were making the headlines, but Mums would say: 'Just be back for tea!' and we'd be off for hours, into 'our' world.
  • Geenie
    Geenie Posts: 1,213 Forumite
    PasturesNew wrote: »
    http://bp3.blogger.com/_fM5_4Z1BI14/RyAFBIBtCEI/AAAAAAAAAjg/5IRfn3z-SRA/s1600-h/page+1+clothes.jpg
    And more from: http://kathleen-dakotadreams.blogspot.com/2007/10/thursday-tab-special-wednesday-edition.html

    Also from the same blog:
    http://bp2.blogger.com/_fM5_4Z1BI14/RxdxQZz8QUI/AAAAAAAAAgw/GFfC5_CEQbw/s1600-h/1+bride+clothes.jpg

    Loads more on there too :)

    Blimey, I'm sure I had better clothes then that to play with, but the memory can be forgiving over time lets be honest! :o


    "Life is difficult. Life is a series of problems. What makes life difficult is that the process of confronting and solving problems is a painful one." M Scott Peck. The Road Less Travelled.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    Geenie wrote: »

    They made up for the fact my mother would never buy me a Sindy doll! :cry:

    Neither would mine. She deeply disapproved of them.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    fc123 wrote: »
    plus haven't got any small kids in the house to delegate it to anymore.

    want to borrow one?
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    Davesnave wrote: »
    They have none of the freedoms we had. One of the saddest things was when I took my kids to the river & woods near my home town and showed them where I'd played, built dens, lit fires etc. It was overgrown; the paths all gone, because no one went there any more.

    They could do, though.

    Public perception of "stranger danger" has changed, but the reality's pretty much as it ever was.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • Kez100
    Kez100 Posts: 2,236 Forumite
    I had pippa dolls.
  • Geenie
    Geenie Posts: 1,213 Forumite
    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    Neither would mine. She deeply disapproved of them.


    Catholic?!!


    "Life is difficult. Life is a series of problems. What makes life difficult is that the process of confronting and solving problems is a painful one." M Scott Peck. The Road Less Travelled.
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