When I left home my toys were left in the huge toy cupboard in the playroom at the farm where I grew up - my first proper home of my own was a small bungalow with hardly any storage so Ma was happy for me to leave them there ... as she said, 'When you have a family they can play with them when the visit us."
A few years later my parents retired and gave bro the farm, he married, sold the farm and bought another one and moved ........ I have no idea what happened to my toys (the farm Pa made, my dolls house, Bako building set, child-sized weaving loom and sewing machine etc ....... Ma said they'd all been taken to the new farmhouse but when I asked Bro he just looked puzzled and said 'you'd left them behind ..............'
Ma had rescued my teddy bear and the scary doll Marion because, as she said, "they were expensive" ....... but I was never a 'doll person' ........ I liked making things and I loved my toy farm ................
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Deffo not hot pants maybe jeans & socks, decent jumper if we venture to the pub it would be rude not to as the diet/ detox starts tomorrow. Yes you did say thanks x
KEF - mine starts tomorrow too. I've made gallons of veg soup with my 7 a day taken care of and have frozen it. All uphill from then.
My Mum was (and still is) a chucker-out so I have no toys from childhood except for the teddy that was bought the Christmas before I was born. I loved my stilts - probably because of being short - but probably wouldn't be walking around on them now
Enjoy Sherlock Fairy and when you've worked out what exactly happened please let me know
Morning all - wet and grey here today - definitely not a day to venture outside.
Hi Runny - I won prizes in a Cadbury's comp at school as well when I was about 8. We had to write about the growing of cocoa & the making of chocolate. Was that the same competition as you? My entry was read out to the school - I was chuffed and mortified in equal measure
Think my main prize was a tin box of Cadbury chocolates - had a selection of miniatures of all their products. I have no idea what happened to the tin or the certificate that probably came with it. My parents weren't sentimental - so I just have a few books from my childhood (mainly Famous Five) which I rescued from the bin.
I also have my teddy or - to be more correct - I have his head. No ears, no eyes (well some buttons now), no body, no fur.... He came everywhere with me for many years and was chewed and cuddled literally to virtual death. My mother tried to bin him several times but each time I found him and rescued him with tears streaming down my face. He's tucked away in a cupboard now but I would never throw him out - even if he does have a slight mushroomy odour about him these days
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
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When I left home my toys were left in the huge toy cupboard in the playroom at the farm where I grew up - my first proper home of my own was a small bungalow with hardly any storage so Ma was happy for me to leave them there ... as she said, 'When you have a family they can play with them when the visit us."
A few years later my parents retired and gave bro the farm, he married, sold the farm and bought another one and moved ........ I have no idea what happened to my toys (the farm Pa made, my dolls house, Bako building set, child-sized weaving loom and sewing machine etc ....... Ma said they'd all been taken to the new farmhouse but when I asked Bro he just looked puzzled and said 'you'd left them behind ..............'
Ma had rescued my teddy bear and the scary doll Marion because, as she said, "they were expensive" ....... but I was never a 'doll person' ........ I liked making things and I loved my toy farm ................
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Deffo not hot pants maybe jeans & socks, decent jumper if we venture to the pub
it would be rude not to as the diet/ detox 
starts tomorrow. Yes you did say thanks x
Morning all, hi Pat
KEF - mine starts tomorrow too
. I've made gallons of veg soup with my 7 a day taken care of and have frozen it. All uphill from then
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My Mum was (and still is) a chucker-out so I have no toys from childhood except for the teddy that was bought the Christmas before I was born. I loved my stilts - probably because of being short - but probably wouldn't be walking around on them now
Enjoy Sherlock Fairy and when you've worked out what exactly happened please let me know
Have a good celebratory lunch chicky
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Morning all - wet and grey here today - definitely not a day to venture outside.
Hi Runny - I won prizes in a Cadbury's comp at school as well when I was about 8. We had to write about the growing of cocoa & the making of chocolate. Was that the same competition as you? My entry was read out to the school - I was chuffed and mortified in equal measure
Think my main prize was a tin box of Cadbury chocolates - had a selection of miniatures of all their products. I have no idea what happened to the tin or the certificate that probably came with it. My parents weren't sentimental - so I just have a few books from my childhood (mainly Famous Five) which I rescued from the bin.
I also have my teddy or - to be more correct - I have his head. No ears, no eyes (well some buttons now), no body, no fur.... He came everywhere with me for many years and was chewed and cuddled literally to virtual death. My mother tried to bin him several times but each time I found him and rescued him with tears streaming down my face. He's tucked away in a cupboard now but I would never throw him out - even if he does have a slight mushroomy odour about him these days
Just popped in to say I hope everyone has a nice night and that the passing of the year takes all the bad memories away from 15 with it.
there is nothing like hope to greet the new year!
all the best to everyone when it comes
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A A Milne
Phew that was a rush, showered, dressed and face glued back together before noon, can't let standards drop
Runny
ugly child 
soz but I did laugh, wish I'd thought of that one to tell younger sis.
Lesley can't wait for tomoz...not !!
TB mushroom teddy heads they might catch on
Hi LilyP hiccups again
Verdun
Dove I loved dolls, Polly, Patsy, Margaret, Julie, Penelope, Susan Mary Anne, and then Tressy
I must get a life 
