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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:

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Originally posted by Moomin:
My Golliwog.

I still have him - he will be 50 years old next year.

I had a family of gollys when I was very little. Loved them I did! Of course, not PC now!

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Originally posted by pussycatj:
Hi Moomin, Kaytee My mother threw all our toys away mind you, I have 4 children and have kept most of their stuff, the attic is bowing, but I honestly couldn't throw anything away.

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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:

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Originally posted by shar69:
Etch a sketch v's 3 floor sindy house with all the trimmings v's Enid Blyton books............I guess I always went back to the Etch a sketch. Don't still have it but do still have some of the Enid Blyton books, my son reads them now

Ive been known to read an Enid Blyton book or 2 in the last few years!!! Dug out a "Mallory Towers" from the girls cupboard!! Loved it!

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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:

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Originally posted by Cagney:

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Originally posted by Marguerita:

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Originally posted by Cagney:
I enjoyed my pets too. I got a dog for my 5th birthday and he was my best buddy till he died aged 19.

He had the best life. Total pampered pooch. He was a Heinz 57 as my mum used to say

Actually pets were a big part of my growing up. We always had some kind or other. Cats, dogs, hamsters, budgies, snakes, rats, mice, fish. All my responsibility (except the snake, that was my brothers) and all totally pampered

And me! Always had dogs and cats. Also had 2 rabbitts; Hoppity and Dusty My dad built this huge run for them in the garden They both lived till they were 10 years old, which was great for a rabbit I think Also had guinea pigs, hamsters, gerbils etc. Used to look after some of the rodents from School in the Holidays too Remember I cried my eyes out for days after our dogs died. Were so part of the family!

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Originally posted by Heartache:
I had a Silver Cross coach built toy pram, that my dollies rode around in.

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Originally posted by Dirtyprettygirlthing:

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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:

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Originally posted by shar69:
Etch a sketch v's 3 floor sindy house with all the trimmings v's Enid Blyton books............I guess I always went back to the Etch a sketch. Don't still have it but do still have some of the Enid Blyton books, my son reads them now

Ive been known to read an Enid Blyton book or 2 in the last few years!!! Dug out a "Mallory Towers" from the girls cupboard!! Loved it!

I loved the Mallory Towers books... they were kind the Jaqueline Wilson's of our generation!

I still have a Pip the Fairy book by Enid Blyton... book of short stories.. but each one has a random nature fact!

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Originally posted by vodka jellyfish:
My favourite toys though were two teddy bears called Little and Tartan. Little was small and yellow and Tartan was, erm, tartan Years later when I was a teenager I covered Tartan with glitter and made him a feather boa and turned him into a Manics fan

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Originally posted by pussycatj:
Mine were my dolls, I had 1 Barbie, 1 Tressie (she had hair that 'grew' from a hole in the middle of her head and you could wind it back in) and borrowed 1 of my brothers Action Men. I used to make clothes for them and played with them for hours and hours

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Originally posted by Sarum:

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Originally posted by pussycatj:
Mine were my dolls, I had 1 Barbie, 1 Tressie (she had hair that 'grew' from a hole in the middle of her head and you could wind it back in) and borrowed 1 of my brothers Action Men. I used to make clothes for them and played with them for hours and hours

Dolls, oh yes...


When I was little, I had two dolls; one was Major Matt Mason, a cool astronaut doll (with a funny shaped head, but nobody's perfect ). He had lots of adventures in a spaceship I made out of cereal boxes and toilet rolls...
The other one (which I bought with my own pocket money, and had to hide at my gran's house) was a secret agent doll called Havoc that was her codename, her real name was a secret only I knew...she had a black jumpsuit, a gun and a hand grenade. And she was about the same size, so she went in the spaceship occasionally too...

I wish I'd kept them, they're collector's items now;
Major Matt
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Havoc

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Originally posted by Dirtyprettygirlthing:


I want a Havoc doll... how come I didn't know about these when I was a kid!!

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Originally posted by Sarum:

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I want a Havoc doll... how come I didn't know about these when I was a kid!!

She wasn't very popular, for some reason...There was supposed to be a whole series of them, including super-villains, but the idea never really caught on.

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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:

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Originally posted by MoFo:
Clackers and Two balls. I was ACE at them!

Two balls!!!!! Used to love playing that. Would play for ages. You just dont get kids playing that stuff anymore. Not around here, anyway. My kids stopped "Playing out" when they got to about 11. Afraid the computer etc got the better of them!

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Originally posted by love greek sunsets:
OMG Aims, I was going to say the same, two balls, kept me entertained for hours in the entry, although don't think me ma and da was too pleased lol

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Originally posted by Aimee:

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Originally posted by love greek sunsets:
OMG Aims, I was going to say the same, two balls, kept me entertained for hours in the entry, although don't think me ma and da was too pleased lol

i only have 1 left now 30 odd years old they was as well, bliddy kids

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Originally posted by love greek sunsets:

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Originally posted by Aimee:

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Originally posted by love greek sunsets:
OMG Aims, I was going to say the same, two balls, kept me entertained for hours in the entry, although don't think me ma and da was too pleased lol

i only have 1 left now 30 odd years old they was as well, bliddy kids

yeah but how lovely to think your nanna had kept them....or was she hiding them? no really it was lovely

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Originally posted by cup:
I like the other posters loved two balls played for hours singing all the songs

and my kids i showed them hadnt a clue looked at me if i was mad,and couldnt get the hang of it

I also had a doll called katie copy cat

my pride and joy,she said at one side of desk and me at other and when i wrote a word or drew a pic she copied it pure class

My mum had a shop made for me all the jars of sweets scales till big shop flipping magic

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Originally posted by Spy:
The Big Yellow Teapot!!!

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Originally posted by vodka jellyfish:
anyone remember these?

strawberry shortcake dolls

their hair smelled of food

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Originally posted by fabienne:
Those sweet shops with little weighing scales and jars of sweets, and the little post office sets where you could sell stamps and stuff. I guess you're all too young to remember them...

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Originally posted by fabienne:
Those sweet shops with little weighing scales and jars of sweets, and the little post office sets where you could sell stamps and stuff. I guess you're all too young to remember them...

I remember the Post Office set fabienne, myself and my brother loved it.

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Originally posted by Aimee:

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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:

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Originally posted by MoFo:
Clackers and Two balls. I was ACE at them!

Two balls!!!!! Used to love playing that. Would play for ages. You just dont get kids playing that stuff anymore. Not around here, anyway. My kids stopped "Playing out" when they got to about 11. Afraid the computer etc got the better of them!

i used to play 2 balls at my nanas house and when she died we found the same 2 balls wrapped up in a drawer, i've kept them ever since, then a couple of years ago my daughter found them and asked me to show her how to do it, she then had a go and lobbed one of them onto the roof

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Originally posted by Dirtyprettygirlthing:

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Originally posted by cup:
I like the other posters loved two balls played for hours singing all the songs

and my kids i showed them hadnt a clue looked at me if i was mad,and couldnt get the hang of it

I also had a doll called katie copy cat

my pride and joy,she said at one side of desk and me at other and when i wrote a word or drew a pic she copied it pure class

My mum had a shop made for me all the jars of sweets scales till big shop flipping magic

I had Katie Copycat! Still do! She is at my mum's... one of the toys she kept for my kids to play with. Complete with writing desk!

I don't think my kids were that impressed with her!

*wonders if she's worth anything on ebay*

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Originally posted by mozart:
a huge dolls house,it was my pride and joy and kept me busy cleaning and tidying it for hours. Now i have my own house and some how i dont seem to enjoy the cleaning and tidying up so much as i did then