Just needed to be heard for a little while

codemonkey

I had a cabbage patch kids school bag in the 80s but I broke the head off it trying to post my bag through the letterbox when I arrived home from school one day and my parents weren't home.

When I was a kid, I liked the adverts more than the shows on tv. Now with on demand and recording tv shows you don't have to watch them at all. Sometimes I like to, although I think there are far too many during the day for short term loans and betting sites.

heartbreak_star

I hated the Cabbage Patch Dolls...creepy things You can all have my share of the ones I should have had as a child!

I preferred the Wuzzles, I think they were American but didn't really take off here...

HBS x

Pyxis

We never had them. They started before I had children, then when I did, I was far too poor to buy them, and nobody bought them as presents. I wonder how valuable they are now?

I'll go and google..........



.............hmm, not very. £10-30. Probably less in real terms than they cost originally. Maybe it'll take another 20 or 30 years!

codemonkey

I loved playschool. I loved Jemima and Humpty.

whitewing

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/playschool/trivia.shtml

I didn't like Blue Peter - I hated anything educational. Now, I look back and think it's great.

heartbreak_star

I remember How2 from when I was a kid, that was fun. My Dad remembered the original How

I also vaguely remember a thing called Why Don't You? that was about getting kids to be more active (I think).

I was a kid with very specific tastes though. When I was tiny, I loved The Adventure Game, then graduated to the D&D cartoons, the Crystal Maze and Knightmare, then on to tabletop roleplaying and LARP so I just grew up into an adult with very specific tastes

(I bought a NERF gun and bow with my Christmas money...that is, Christmas just gone! I'm just a massive kid!)

HBS x

elsien

Does anyone here know much about panic attacks at all?

Long story short, relative in hospital abroad, waiting to be medevacced home, info very sketchy at the moment. Physical ailments aside, the person is prone to panic attacks anyway and wouldn't willingly set foot on a plane ever without completely losing the plot. They were on a cruise when taken ill.
So out of curiosity (I know no-one can comment and give any advice on the specific situation, that's down to the medics) if this is something you can empathise with what would it take to get you on the plane home. Or would you have to be completely knocked out and oblivious to what was going on around you?

Waves_and_Smiles

WaSp calls me an advertisers dream. I have my Oleg's, a PG Tips monkey, an Andrex puppy, 2 penguins from a washing powder tie in with Happy Feet and a Keepon robot from the Eon advert. Granted I don't continue to buy the product advertised, just enough to get the cute toy!

Waves_and_Smiles

Often people who have problems flying take a mild tranquilliser to help them, elsien. Mindfulness techniques have had some success as have thought challenging techniques. I am not sure how effective the latter would be with someone who is already dealing with feeling unwell, though because you do need to concentrate.

Pyxis

Elsien- I don't have any experience of panic attacks or fear of flying. How ill/injured is the relative? Maybe their desire to get home will outweigh any panic.




WaS, do you have any NatWest pigs?:D or a Dulux dog? or a smurf?