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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:
Did anyone play "mother may I", "Peep behind the curtain", "Television Programmes", or "2 balls?"

2 balls rocked! I just tried it outside and my first attempt ended with me fishing 1 ball out of the pond,hopeless

School trips...one kid always turned up with a packed lunch paste sarnie and an apple in a Sunblest bread wrapper.

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Originally posted by electric6:

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parents would only turn up there if they were summoned because your were ill or in trouble.

I was sick at school once,the school Secretary walked me home...holding my hand...just me and her...and that was only coz I was wobbly on my feet...otherwise they'd have just sent me home on my own (I was about 8)

Oh yeah, kids got sent to walk home all the time, it's true.

I've seen this before, but it's really good Thanks for posting it on here kettle

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Originally posted by electric6:
School trips...one kid always turned up with a packed lunch paste sarnie and an apple in a Sunblest bread wrapper.

That would be ALL of us, in my primary school

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Originally posted by Demantoid:
That would be ALL of us, in my primary school

Mine was always ham and pease pudding sarnies and a hard boiled egg

Omg! What about KISS CHASE!

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Originally posted by Getthekettleon:
Omg! What about KISS CHASE!

Not to mention British Bulldog on the netball court and big fights in the middle!

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Originally posted by FGG Aka Crocodile Rock:

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Originally posted by Getthekettleon:
Omg! What about KISS CHASE!

Not to mention British Bulldog on the netball court and big fights in the middle!

Ahh British Bulldog!

We used to play a game called What's the time Mr Wolf...it was meant to be a guessing game but really it was just an excuse for kids to chase each other and attack them and lots of mock hysterical screaming

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Originally posted by FGG Aka Crocodile Rock:

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Originally posted by Getthekettleon:
Omg! What about KISS CHASE!

Not to mention British Bulldog on the netball court and big fights in the middle!

I dont wanna be a grown up

We played british Bulldog, Kerby, What Time Is It Mt Wolf, and many more...

We'd spend hours down the river at the Seven Acres and run across the 'pipe bridge'...no fear of sewage or falling off the bridge.

My younger sister and I used to drop sheets down from the top bunk and make a den on the bottom one.

Another favourite was zipping sleeping bags up, then standing up and putting them over our heads so only our feet were showing...we called that game 'bump in the dark' then slide down the stairs in them, it would always end in tears

My Parents couldn't afford much when we were young so we had to utilise what we could and use our imaginations...what fun we had, the simple things. None of this one player video game stuff, we played together and shared.

I remember getting our first computer. It was an Acorn Electron and to load the classic Spade Invaders game took about half an hour in the tape deck....

We loved playing Fairy Footsteps.
Would have to be renamed these days in case it caused offence.

Ditto Leccy & Croc...British Bulldog and What time is is Mr Wolf...

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Originally posted by electric6:

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parents would only turn up there if they were summoned because your were ill or in trouble.

I was sick at school once,the school Secretary walked me home...holding my hand...just me and her...and that was only coz I was wobbly on my feet...otherwise they'd have just sent me home on my own (I was about 8)

i twisted my ankle when i was about 15 playing tennis in an afterschool thing...my english teacher (afteschool tennis teacher) took me home in his car...i WELL fancied him too

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Originally posted by electric6:
School trips...one kid always turned up with a packed lunch paste sarnie and an apple in a Sunblest bread wrapper.

that was me my mum always made me slamon paste sarnies and i HATE salmon paste

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Originally posted by The Devil In Diamante:
We played british Bulldog, Kerby, r and shared.

I remember getting our first computer. It was an Acorn Electron and to load the classic Spade Invaders game took about half an hour in the tape deck....

Hi DD lol...kerby - where you stood on opposite pavements and you had to throw the ball at the kerb to try and get it to bounce back to you

I remember the acorn too...wasn't it related to the Commodore 64? or was it something to do the BBC computers? oooo now then, what was that one before the C64? Vvvv? ummmm....

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Originally posted by Darthhoob:

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Originally posted by electric6:

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parents would only turn up there if they were summoned because your were ill or in trouble.

I was sick at school once,the school Secretary walked me home...holding my hand...just me and her...and that was only coz I was wobbly on my feet...otherwise they'd have just sent me home on my own (I was about 8)

i twisted my ankle when i was about 15 playing tennis in an afterschool thing...my english teacher (afteschool tennis teacher) took me home in his car...i WELL fancied him too

Theres a name for girls like you!

Me and my P.E. Teacher, Mr. Willhemy, corrrrr

Jumping around and making the noise for the 6 million dollar man. Playing 40 40 and 52 bunker...best of all...water fights with a washing-up bottle.

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Originally posted by Getthekettleon:

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Originally posted by Darthhoob:

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Originally posted by electric6:

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parents would only turn up there if they were summoned because your were ill or in trouble.

I was sick at school once,the school Secretary walked me home...holding my hand...just me and her...and that was only coz I was wobbly on my feet...otherwise they'd have just sent me home on my own (I was about 8)

i twisted my ankle when i was about 15 playing tennis in an afterschool thing...my english teacher (afteschool tennis teacher) took me home in his car...i WELL fancied him too

Theres a name for girls like you!

i didn't do it on purpose though

We used to play a version of pooh sticks on the roundabout in the swing park.

You'd drop a stick, lie down on the roundabout, get another kid to spin it till you were going a squllion miles an hour...then you'd have to half hang off, headfirst... and try to pick the stick back up. If you got a big lad to spin it you almost stuck to it with the centrifugal force

Our "big slide" (there was a little one too for the babies) was so high it had a cage at the top to stop you falling...we used to climb out and sit on top of the cage...you could see the whole town (it seemed like) from up there...and if you fell...straight onto lovely concrete complete with broken bottles Ahhhh.

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Originally posted by Perones:

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Originally posted by The Devil In Diamante:
We played british Bulldog, Kerby, r and shared.

I remember getting our first computer. It was an Acorn Electron and to load the classic Spade Invaders game took about half an hour in the tape deck....

Hi DD lol...kerby - where you stood on opposite pavements and you had to throw the ball at the kerb to try and get it to bounce back to you

I remember the acorn too...wasn't it related to the Commodore 64? or was it something to do the BBC computers? oooo now then, what was that one before the C64? Vvvv? ummmm....

Perones Kerby was brill...

Most of my friends got the Commadore 64, we got the Acorn Electron, must've been cheaper!

i used to LOVE heights, fearless i was. till i climbed this HUGE climbing frame. it was like a MASSIVE ball and had lots of ropes to climb in the middle.

i fell from the top onto the hard floor below and cracked me head and cut my hand open on some glass...i was about 5 then lol! i can't even stand an inch off the floor now

lol you should have seen me lately at colchester zoo...they have a rope bridge you have to cross. although i wasn't scared of falling i still didn't like being so high up so i was clinging to the side the whole way...took me like 10 mins

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Originally posted by The Devil In Diamante:

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Originally posted by Perones:

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Originally posted by The Devil In Diamante:
We played british Bulldog, Kerby, r and shared.

I remember getting our first computer. It was an Acorn Electron and to load the classic Spade Invaders game took about half an hour in the tape deck....

Hi DD lol...kerby - where you stood on opposite pavements and you had to throw the ball at the kerb to try and get it to bounce back to you

I remember the acorn too...wasn't it related to the Commodore 64? or was it something to do the BBC computers? oooo now then, what was that one before the C64? Vvvv? ummmm....

Perones Kerby was brill...

Most of my friends got the Commadore 64, we got the Acorn Electron, must've been cheaper!

pmsl I had to google it: "The Acorn Electron is a budget version of the BBC Micro educational/home computer made by Acorn Computers Ltd. It has 32 kilobytes of RAM"

drawing a tennis court on the road to play on

What was thay thing girls usde to do, jumping between bits of elastic?

Kerby is brill, play it with my young cousins to keep them out of trouble .

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Originally posted by Teddy Bleads:
What was thay thing girls usde to do, jumping between bits of elastic?

skipping?

I got a Commodore VIC-20..AFTER they'd stopped making them. It was still new in the box but had no instruction manual...£20 from Newcastle Quayside Market. My Dad rang round everywhere to try to get a manual but he had no luck I had to borrow a dog eared copy from a lass at school.

Edited, it was a 20!

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Originally posted by Perones:

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Originally posted by The Devil In Diamante:

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Originally posted by Perones:

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Originally posted by The Devil In Diamante:
We played british Bulldog, Kerby, r and shared.

I remember getting our first computer. It was an Acorn Electron and to load the classic Spade Invaders game took about half an hour in the tape deck....

Hi DD lol...kerby - where you stood on opposite pavements and you had to throw the ball at the kerb to try and get it to bounce back to you

I remember the acorn too...wasn't it related to the Commodore 64? or was it something to do the BBC computers? oooo now then, what was that one before the C64? Vvvv? ummmm....

Perones Kerby was brill...

Most of my friends got the Commadore 64, we got the Acorn Electron, must've been cheaper!

pmsl I had to google it: "The Acorn Electron is a budget version of the BBC Micro educational/home computer made by Acorn Computers Ltd. It has 32 kilobytes of RAM"

drawing a tennis court on the road to play on

This is it!!!!

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Originally posted by Darthhoob:

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Originally posted by Teddy Bleads:
What was thay thing girls usde to do, jumping between bits of elastic?

skipping?

No..it was kind of like cats cradles with legs.

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Originally posted by Teddy Bleads:

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Originally posted by Darthhoob:

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Originally posted by Teddy Bleads:
What was thay thing girls usde to do, jumping between bits of elastic?

skipping?

No..it was kind of like cats cradles with legs.

I think I know what you mean, we had a version with a circular piece of string or an elastic band that we used to wrap round our fingers and make cats cradles...

Hopscotch, ya can't beat a good game of Hopscotch!

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Originally posted by electric6:
We used to play a version of pooh sticks on the roundabout in the swing park.

You'd drop a stick, lie down on the roundabout, get another kid to spin it till you were going a squllion miles an hour...then you'd have to half hang off, headfirst... and try to pick the stick back up. If you got a big lad to spin it you almost stuck to it with the centrifugal force

Our "big slide" (there was a little one too for the babies) was so high it had a cage at the top to stop you falling...we used to climb out and sit on top of the cage...you could see the whole town (it seemed like) from up there...and if you fell...straight onto lovely concrete complete with broken bottles Ahhhh.

We had a big metal spider,it too was laid in concrete and probably painted with lead paint The bigger kids used to spin the swings over and over, so us little ones couldnt reach em to get on them

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Originally posted by Teddy Bleads:

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Originally posted by Darthhoob:

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Originally posted by Teddy Bleads:
What was thay thing girls usde to do, jumping between bits of elastic?

skipping?

No..it was kind of like cats cradles with legs.

We used elastic and it was called chinese skipping

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Originally posted by Teddy Bleads:
What was thay thing girls usde to do, jumping between bits of elastic?

We called it French Skipping

Googled and found this......


French Elastic or French Skipping

We play this game with a really long piece of elastic, about 2cm wide and 3 metres in length. We tie the ends of the elastic together to make a loop.

Two children stand inside the loop so they are stretching it relatively taut around their ankles. A third person performs a series of hops and jumps, chanting appropriate rhymes. When finished, the height of the elastic is raised to knees, then thighs, then waist.

Start with left foot inside the elastic loop and right foot just outside. Jump over to to the other side so right foot is inside the loop and left foot is outside.

Here is one of the rhymes we say:

'Chocolate cake, when you bake,
How many minutes will you take?
One, two, three, four.'

On ONE: jump up and land with left foot outside the elastic loop and your right foot inside.
On TWO: jump up and land with both feet together inside the elastic loop.
On THREE: jump up and land with both feet outside the elastic loop.
On Four: jump up and land sideways to the elastic, with your left foot on top of the back elastic and your right foot ahead (in front) of the front elastic.

If the current player fails to execute the correct jump their turn is over and play passes to one of the people inside the circle of elastic, who then tries to out do the previous player.

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Originally posted by Blackpudlian:

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Originally posted by Teddy Bleads:
What was thay thing girls usde to do, jumping between bits of elastic?

We called it French Skipping

Spoke to my sis and she called it French Elastic so that's probably it.

We called it elastics or French skips (I posted about it on page 1 or 2)...I guess it had regional names.

did anyone else used to play 'Kingy' ? it may be called different things in different areas, you had to throw a tennis ball at someone to 'tig' them, then they were 'it'. You started off all stood in a ring with toes touching your mates' either side of you, so you made a sealed circle, you then bounced the tennis ball in side and you had to flip it by swivelling on your toes and hitting it with your ankles - like the flippers on a pin-ball machine - between someone else's legs..then they were on...

This time of year we would go in the fields and rearrange the bails of straw thus building castles, tunnels and mazes.

BTW What time is it Mr Wolf?

DINNERTIME!!! AAAAAAAAAAARRRGGHHH! etc.