Oh Kef, its a toss up. I had red jacko skates too, they were great. But one year I had a dolls house, my dad made it. It had lights and everything. Each room could have the lights on or off it was brill.
My sisteris a lot older than me and one year she gave me a kitten, she was beautiful (the kitten lol) a long haired tabby just like you used to see on chocolate boxes.
Absolutely no question about it - a toy farm my Pa had made for me - it was absolutely beautifully made - it had cow sheds and pig styes with white painted walls and red roofs and a meadow with a green hedge all around it and a pond that shone like a mirror , and there were cows and sheep and pigs and goats and chickens and ducks and geese and a lady with a bowl of grain for the poultry and she had a headscarf and looked just like my Ma! It was the best present in the world and I've got tears running down my face
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
When I was about 5 my grandad gave me a very heavy christmas present about 9 x 4 x 4 inches. When I asked him what it was he told me it was a brick (I believed him and cried apparently!) On Christmas day I opened it to find.. you guessed it.. a pair of roller skates!
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
Oh Dove you've made me cry too. Such lovely happy memories. We may not have had all theses new gadgets but we had great fun, a very very happy childhood.
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Oh Kef, its a toss up. I had red jacko skates too, they were great. But one year I had a dolls house, my dad made it. It had lights and everything. Each room could have the lights on or off it was brill.
My sisteris a lot older than me and one year she gave me a kitten, she was beautiful (the kitten lol) a long haired tabby just like you used to see on chocolate boxes.
Absolutely no question about it - a toy farm my Pa had made for me - it was absolutely beautifully made - it had cow sheds and pig styes with white painted walls and red roofs and a meadow with a green hedge all around it and a pond that shone like a mirror
, and there were cows and sheep and pigs and goats and chickens and ducks and geese and a lady with a bowl of grain for the poultry and she had a headscarf and looked just like my Ma! It was the best present in the world and I've got tears running down my face 
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
When I was about 5 my grandad gave me a very heavy christmas present about 9 x 4 x 4 inches. When I asked him what it was he told me it was a brick (I believed him and cried apparently!)
On Christmas day I opened it to find.. you guessed it.. a pair of roller skates! 
Oh Dove you've made me cry too. Such lovely happy memories. We may not have had all theses new gadgets but we had great fun, a very very happy childhood.
Lily ((hugs))
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Half of an old pair of tights with a satsuma in the bottom!
Only kidding!
A toy fort my Dad made for me when I was around 7 or 8.
Kids today seem to have so much but I am guilty of spoiling mine, as long as they value things.
Isn't it lovely that our favorite things were lovingly made for us by our dads.
And lucky that they were so great at carpentry !
Crickey, didn't want to make peeps
. Hugs x
I was torn between roller skates and my scooter, but I picked roller skates, since the scooter is the reason I have one leg longer than the other.
Some great Dad made pressies
a rocking horse of course