Owd Pastimes - Page 4

Dave · 19-08-2003, 23:01

[quote author=janet link=board=nostalgia;num=1060000403;start=40#44 date=08/19/03 at 23:44:54]remember playing tunes on a comb with a piece of toilet tissue izal made the best tunes. i also had lots of fun with a spud gun.[/quote]

I hated that sound &gt;

It used to go right through me... ;D ;D

Caz · 20-08-2003, 02:47

I remember the hoola hoop craze, back in the fifties, was the first one in our school to get one.

ANNE · 20-08-2003, 20:13

I to ad an hoola hoop. Was to fat to do any hoolaing. Liked to play skipping with it.
Remember bean bags and these round rubber rings. What were they called?

Caz · 20-08-2003, 21:06

Didn't they call those rubber rings coits or something like that?
First thing I remember from school PE is those small plastic balls with the the holes in.

Music & Movement & the Nutcracker Suite, Coppelia & all that.

Triangles, tambourines, marracas & castanets. We thought we were making wonderful music.

Do you remember "I love to go a wandering with a knapsack on my back?  Used to sing that at infant school all the time.

Being milk monitor. Taking the tops off and putting the straws in. any left over you got first chance at it!

Mick · 20-08-2003, 21:24

Being the ink monitor was best going round all the desks filling the little ink wells
what a mess you could make  ;D ;D

Caz · 20-08-2003, 22:39

Ah yes! And The pens which were just basically a stick with a replaceable nib on the end. And blotting paper. Never see that now do you!

ANNE · 20-08-2003, 23:45

Coits, thats it. Waltzing Matilda that was another, we were always singing. Bean bags and those red, green, yellow and blue bands for marking teams.
Clapping games in the yard. Like a sailor went to see, see,see and rubber dolly. Do you remember those, Cazzer ?.

Caz · 21-08-2003, 00:18

Certainly do, and playing games like filmstars or popstars, where you were given initials and had to guess who it was. then run to the wall first , then you were on!

Hey we're in the wrong column here have you noticed!! ;D

ANNE · 21-08-2003, 00:24

Thats the trouble when you start remanising you start veering off the question in hand. Its gettin time i was remembering the way to bed.

Mik Dickinson · 02-09-2003, 21:17

Anybody remember Kerbie? Throwing the ball acroos the road to get it to bounce on the kerb.If it come back and you caught it double points.Better than any PS2 if ya ask me

HarryX · 02-09-2003, 21:22

KERBIE .. My kids still play it.. I even join in if I am out there and bored..

One on each side of rd taking turns to throw at apposing kerb

Its ten points if you hit the kerb dead on and it bounces back.. You then get to stand in middle of rd and take closer shots at 5pts each..

BUT if you miss you have to get back to your side of the rd before your apponant gets the ball and throws it at you.. because if they hit you before your back then they get all your points.

Never  even heard of it when I was at school.. must be an accy thing ?

Caz · 02-09-2003, 21:22

My 13yr olds still play that now.
The old ones are still the best  

Still playing jacks too.

ANNE · 03-09-2003, 23:09

Sounds like some thing that sounds like an updated version of the old game pounds shillings and pence Harry. Dont know if you remember that or not very popular when i was about mm 7 or eight ish. Give or take.

HarryX · 03-09-2003, 23:32

That wasn't a game.. pounds shilling and pence was real life.. Ohh the way we got ripped off when they changed to decimilisation.

Sorry but I am a pound shilling and pence person.. Bring it all back i say.. Stuff all this 10 of everything stuff. decimilisation is for lazy people who can't devide by 12

janet · 04-09-2003, 14:05

used to love playing with a top and whip, drawing fancy patterns on the top with chalk.hop scotch, cannon.