Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

DH and I have just spent an hour or so trippin' down memory lane and recalling our favourite ever toys. This was mine (not the exact set - this is an earlier version - but you'll get the gist):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/obsolete_odds/5396267291/
DH had a wooden castle that we can't find a pic of anywhere.

What were yours?

This sounds a bit pathetic, biut i didn't have that many toys. In my parents defence we travelled a lot, and they had a lot to take with them and they also felt that it was important for me not to hang on to old things. I do remember wanting a care bear very, very much, and my mother got a fabric opne that you had to sew onto a backing and stuff...so in evfect a cuchioon not a teddy. I wept and my mother was really hurt. My dad was a bit cross about the whole episode and though neither approved much of teddies, or rather lots of teddies, i had a few, brought me back a care bear from the us a few weeks later. By which time i was so upset about the whole thing of the fabric monstrosity and my ingraditude and my mother crying the joy was tinged with a deep shame.

Also, a glow bug...another teddy thing, which had a glow up face and they said no again. My sister found one by the side of the road and put it in thie wash, so its head didn't glow up but i thought it was great, my parents were livid and i liked thaty my sister, who i worshipped, and i were 'bad' and dealt with discarded things.

Even more pathetic, the day i had to go to work with my dad became legendary. One of the immense bonuses of being a lone travelliong child (my sister was an adult) is that you become very self reliant and fairly imaginative. I used to play monopoly and chess against myself....which is great, you always win!' but there was not much in an office to lay with. So my dad gave me some stationary, and i fell deeply in awe of treasury tags, which i had never seen before. I played for a whole day in a corner of the office with treasury tags and no one could believe a kid could be so self contained and kept coming to look. I also was given my first drink of milo that day, and some one brought me fish crackers, which i also thrpought were great. I insisted in supplies of both at home. I was not generally very good, but i know i was that day. My family still call treasury tags 'catterpillars' because that what i was pretending they were
tots i remeber having were a train set, a few cars, barbies (which the digs always stole and bit the heads off, so i jead head less barbies and a ken with one leg. A purple horse. Lego, i loved lego!, a tennis ball ona stick and a basket ball hoop.

There must have been LoTs more that i cannot remember. I had loads of dresing up clothes. I still have my toy box now, i keep files in it!
I had a lot of physical freedom as a child, in a way i do not think could happen now. I swam in the sea alone, wandered though wild areas alone and met lots of new people in lots of strange pllaces fairly regularly. It was fabulous, i was incredibly lucky and my parents gave me much more than the two teddies i wanted.:D

misskool

right, nice people. I need help.

Been searching for large baskets to go under the hall table so I turn it into a shoe storage area. The entire world sells them in sets of as part of furniture. If they don't, I'm expected to pay £49 for one of them!! I need 3-4

Help please....tried argos, john lewis, ebay, tesco, wilkos, dunelm mill don't have the one I want in stock

http://www.dunelm-mill.com/shop/washington-storage-basket-89353
Like that, 3-4, not part of a set, not round, maybe rounded edges. I am being driven slowly insane.

It's just a sodding basket right???

CountryLad

What size? Like these?

http://www.homebase.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?langId=110&storeId=10151&partNumber=8752817&c_3=3|cat_14417975|Storage+Baskets+and+Boxes|14417980&c_2=2|cat_16849245|Storage+and+Shelving|14417975&c_1=1|category_root|Furniture+and+Homewares|16849245&&cmpid=AFPFD&_$ja=tsid:18771

vivatifosi

Have you tried Ikea missk? They have these ones..

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/00138432/#/20192729 in different sizes and in natural (sorry, have chosen the pic in white because I liked it)
and these ones:
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/90109492/

Robert Dyas has these ones:
http://www.robertdyas.co.uk/product.php?product_id=147103&source=froogle




Not the same, but Traidcraft do a lovely umbrella basket, that may fit in with what you choose:
http://www.traidcraftshop.co.uk/c-43-fair-trade-storage-products.aspx?gclid=CNyQy5eIzq4CFZARfAodmA3cCQ

vivatifosi

Welcome to the NPT CountryLad. Hope you like it round here.

SingleSue

Ebay - have purchased loads on there but just recently, have been using Amazon a lot more. My best purchase from Ebay was my car.

Never seen a shooting star.

Drugs - The group I went around with years ago were all part of the drug scene, think all I will say is that my willpower was a tad stronger than theirs as some became hopelessly addicted to hard drugs.

Favourite toy - When I was very young, I had a plastic pram I would push everywhere until one day, thinking I could push it down the stairs, fell down the stairs and my mum got rid of it. I also had a rag doll which I took everywhere until one holiday when I was 6, I left it in the caravan we had on holiday.

After that, dancing took over my life and my favourite 'toy' would have been my dad's record player for playing all my music for my training. When not dance training, my nose would be stuck in a book rather than playing with toys... I could never understand the Pippa or Sindy doll craze although I did have a Sindy doll...it took part in my brother's war games more than I played with it and ended up headless most of the time.

Amsterdam - went there when I was 12 on a school trip, can't remember much of it apart from sneaking out of the hostel on my birthday to get some alcohol and ice cream. Oh and also coming up against diabetes for the first time in my life as a friend of mine had it and as we were sharing a room, she had to tell me what to do if she had a hypo (which she did, I kept calm and sorted her out while the teachers were running around like headless chickens). The bonus of that was that her mum had been so worried she wouldn't be able to get food at the right time that she had packed a whole suit case full of food....lots of midnight snack parties were held!

PasturesNew

misskool wrote: »

right, nice people. I need help.

Been searching for large baskets to go under the hall table so I turn it into a shoe storage area.

I'd not want to do that, I'd think that the shoes would be scuffing each other and getting wrecked.

PasturesNew

misskool wrote: »

http://www.dunelm-mill.com/shop/washington-storage-basket-89353

They might not be in stock - but on my screen there's a green tick beside reserve/collect. Maybe you overlooked that?

PasturesNew

SingleSue wrote: »

Amsterdam - went there when I was 12 on a school trip,

I believe you are closer to Amsterdam right now, than you are to where I am. In fact, I am about twice as far away from you as Amsterdam.... Timewise it'd be about the same.

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

right, nice people. I need help.

Been searching for large baskets to go under the hall table so I turn it into a shoe storage area. The entire world sells them in sets of as part of furniture. If they don't, I'm expected to pay £49 for one of them!! I need 3-4

Help please....tried argos, john lewis, ebay, tesco, wilkos, dunelm mill don't have the one I want in stock

http://www.dunelm-mill.com/shop/washington-storage-basket-89353
Like that, 3-4, not part of a set, not round, maybe rounded edges. I am being driven slowly insane.

It's just a sodding basket right???

This is probably no help at all, but on the somerset levels their is a basket weaving place that has a huge sale room, and some excellent baskets. I saw a huge trunk there for a great price, and have always regretted not getting it. We got a stair basket for under a tenner. So if you and your dh fancied a trip to somerset i can try and remember excactly where...:D