what do you remember?

[~posy~]

from when you were a kid? toy's, tv programmes, clothes etc, and if you don't mind me asking, what decade?

i watched and loved fraggle rock and dogtanian! played with my little pony and rainbow brite, had a pogo ball and spokey dokeys on my bike! also wore leg warmers! can you tell i was an 80's child! lol! xXx

[Doc Spock]

Muffin the mule, 1950's.. Make of that what you will.

[aka pixi]

I remember clackers, hoola hoops (the swingy round your waist ones not the crisps lol) tomahawk and chopper bicycles lol

I cant remember many tv programmes cos like all the kids in the street I played out nearly all the time.

I remember having great fun going in the fields nearby after the farmer had harvested the corn and every kid in the street would be there making bases and having straw fights before the farmer burned the fields.

Gawd I am so old I remember getting new clothes every whitsuntide lol

One thing that sticks out in my head is the popping candy you could get, I had a cousin in America that used to send me it long before you could buy it over here and I thought it was brilliant stuff.

[nuoyg]

Hell fellow 80's child...I had the same things you mentioned : ) ...also care bears! And I had something which I think was called a keeper or a secret keeper - it was pink and white plastic - like a small swan - and had a key in it's back and you could store things in it. I also remember my older cousin coming round and crimping my hair!

[aka pixi]

oh I forgot to say Im 41 so all this would have been in the early to late 70's

I also remember that every single kid I knew had a pair of rollerskates and bats and balls lol

[bigmamma]

Hi ~posy~ , to name just a few .......
Judy comic
Bunty comic
Hot pants
cow bell
Sindy doll
Old Dr. Who and Blue Peter
School milk
Tv. closing at night with the National anthem , followed by the white dot on the screen taking ages to fade away.
xx

[~posy~]

i had a hoola hoop! never could do it!!
hi nuoyg! they were keypers! i had one too! and care bears! dragged my poor mum to every care bear movie! lol!

[PatriciaH]

I remember going into woolworths to choose my doll at christmas, she was sat on the top shelf.. another christmas i got a scooter , it had a brake , and tassles from the handlebars, at the time it was the bees knees - lol - clackers i remember them, god i had sore knuckles from them !

[Wispy68]

My Baby Beans doll, talking doll, Sindy and accessories, Tiny Tears doll, Tiddlywinks, Hangman, Hopscotch, Snap, Pairs, Memory Game, Girls World, chalking on the pavement (but sometimes picking up what you thought was a piece of chalk, only to realise it was a piece of white dog poo!), that thing where you put a tennis ball in the foot of your Mums' old tights and bounced it around yourself, whilst standing against a wall and chanting rhymes/singing songs, making a tent from blankets and chairs, my typewriter, waiting for the tune from the ice-cream van, Connect 4, Twinkle comic, My Mums' Shepherds Pie, My Dads' Spaghetti Bolognese, Nobbly Bobbly lollies, a 10p mixture from the local sweet shop, Rupert The Bear, Mary Mungo and Midge, Playschool, The Clangers, Bagpuss, Jackanory, Barbapapa, Hannibal the Hamster Ladybird books, Etch-a-Sketch, Fuzzy Felts, Colouring books, our swing, playing with my friends in our street until it got dark, then coming in for a bath, a warm drink, and a story.....

[~posy~]

hi bigmamma! thanx for those and you too pixi! i hope this is bringing back good memories!

[~posy~]

hello everyone else!!

[aka pixi]

fuzzy felt !!!! aww I loved that, cheers for the reminder wispy, and eek at the reminder of dog pooh chalk, aww the amounts of times I did that when I was little then threw it down in disgust hahaha

[nuoyg]

That's it! I also had barbies! And there were also those little bears, they had Sylvanian Families and another set. I had the other set. My cous had Sylvanian....it's all coming back to me...

[PatriciaH]

Proper sherbert fountains, sweet tobacco, shrimps, black jacks, and clothes, tank tops maxi skirts ,baggy pants, round collars - clothes that have made comebacks in the fashions..

[~posy~]

what was the thing called where you stuck the ice in the snowman to make slush puppy type things?? sorry if that's a bit vague!

[nuoyg]

ra ra skirts!

[~posy~]

oh yeah! and puff ball dresses! lol!

[aka pixi]

was that a Mr Frosty posy?

[smudge]

This is a really nice thread posy. -x-

Glad you remember all those things Wispy - makes Dad & me feel quite proud knowing you & Coggles had such a happy childhood. -x-

I'll have to have a think about my childhood days now.......

[bigmamma]

Hello smudge , I was thinking of you when I read Wispys answer , lovely to see you :-) xx

[~posy~]

thanx smudge! it's nice to have something away from the arguing, i rarely post on here now.

mr frosty! that's the one! i sooo wanted one of them!