Childhood games...

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by cashman

What a load of boring crappy games, Proper games were Nick,Nack, but first balancing n empty bottle of milk on the Door Handle n then leg it n peep from around the corner, yeh never lived. Was even better in the Pea Soup Fog we used to get, Yeh could stand about15ft away n laugh when front door opened n yeh could see em in the light, the faces when the bottle smashed in front of em lol

We found out where one of the most hated dinner ladies at school lived, me my friend Charlotte and my sister Denise -we all lived in terror of her and ate up our greens.

Went round playing nick-nack (without bottle as not vandals!) and when we got Knacked about the fifth time in one evening she turned out to be really nice and gave us all sweets...

[garinda]

I'd forgotten about the fish game, until Marg P. mentioned it.

We used to play it at Sunday school Christmas parties, in teams.

Probably about four, with each team wafting a plaice made from brightly coloured tissue paper, along a course.

[kestrelx]

Originally Posted by cashman

What a load of boring crappy games, Proper games were Nick,Nack, but first balancing n empty bottle of milk on the Door Handle n then leg it n peep from around the corner, yeh never lived. Was even better in the Pea Soup Fog we used to get, Yeh could stand about15ft away n laugh when front door opened n yeh could see em in the light, the faces when the bottle smashed in front of em lol

We used to play this but not with a milk bottle we always picked the houses with young guys who'd come out and chase us - then we'd out run them, that was the buzz!

Marbles was another game I recall playing a lot, we loved our colored marbles and sometimes ball bearings played it a lot at junior school.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Hopscotch too...we played that. Didn't need anything other that the pavement and a bit of a stone(which was used to write the numbers on the flags and as a marker).
Two balls as well...up against the wall......must admit, wasn't much good at this game.

[susie123]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Hopscotch too...we played that. Didn't need anything other that the pavement and a bit of a stone(which was used to write the numbers on the flags and as a marker).
Two balls as well...up against the wall......must admit, wasn't much good at this game.

Glad someone else was as useless at two balls as I was!

[Margaret Pilkington]

They used to shout to me at games 'get a bucket' or 'ask your Ma to stitch the hole in your hands'....I was useless at sport, but maybe it was because I didn't like it.......any of it. It all seemed a bit pointless to me.

[mobertol]

We used to play Elastics for hours on end -in theory needed three to play but if one was missing a pair of chair legs would do instead. Can't for the life of me remember all the moves but some you had to land on the elastic in some and others inside or outside of it -must ask my best friend she was the real elastics fiend! I think you had to jump in to start and it was ankle height, then knee height and slowly got higher!

[Margaret Pilkington]

I can remember 'Elastics' being played, but I think this might have been when my daughter was growing up....I don't remember playing it.
We used to play five stones too(also called jacks)....we didn't buy the metal jacks but used five small stones and a little rubber ball........I was rubbish at that game too.......anything to do with balls.

[mobertol]

Have always been good at ball games myself. Tennis, rounders, netball and table-tennis. it's all to do with hand to eye coordination.
We used to play a game called Cannon at school that was very popular -a team game but with a ball. Had to build up your teams cannon made of three little sticks -bit like a wicket i suppose but the opposing team got you out if they hit you with the ball -a tennis ball.

Just remembered another one, used to put a tennis ball in a sock or stocking and knock it on the wall behind you (back to the wall) while singing rhymes and bashing the ball about over you shoulders, between legs etc -now what on earth was that called?!