Great memories guys, yes paula my dad made us a gokart, i thought we were unique,seems lots of you did the same, ours had the pram handle as pully and for steering, if being pushed,i got run over at the back of my ankle one time when i was playing the 'horse'
my sister and i used to 'race' each other when the racing was on tv, we would each sit on an arm of the sofa with our dressing gown cord tied round the foot, as reins...i went on to own my own horses for 35 years,gave up this year and turned to gardening...
my dad had a little white mini pickup that he went to work in, my mum had an avenger with a dodgy starter motor. We lived on a very slight slope,so many a morning us 3 kids had to bump start my mum to work!
My mother made hobby horses out of broomsticks and old socks stuffed for my sister and me which we raced around on.
Loana, I have had to stop riding recently too, arthritis, but I still have my horses, one is 22 and the other 17. My daughter may take the younger one, the other has retired, bad back, but she was a nervy difficult ride.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Hi all, what lovely memories. we had a hand made go-kart also....(plenty of laughs and bruises)..???. Used to also play "Kirbie" where you threw the football from one side of road to other and extra points if the ball hit opposite Kerb and came back to you. One game I used to love was called...."Doublers" where you played up against a wall of choice with 2 tennis balls, singing some tune that went with the game ? But can't remember what offhand.
Sunday night was boring: handwashing tights etc in kitchen sink for school (after) listening to top 40 while doing the dishes and then hanging them or sitting them on top of big gold fire guard...(that clicked into wall) beside coal fire. Then having to watch "One man and his dog and Mastermind" with my dad before bed...
Funny enough,I rather like One man and his dog now....?
clarice673 I remember two balls. I can't remember the songs either .
Can you remember snobs, where you had about six small different coloured cubes (like dice).You would throw them up and catch them on the back of your hand, depending how many you caught, lets say three. You then had to throw the three up again and pick up the other three and catch them altogether, with one hand.
one two three aleary I spy Wallace Beery sitting on his bumbaleary kissing Shirley Temple: Was one of them and then there was :
Under the branches under the trees boom boom boom boom true love to you ma darlin true love to me,etc etc etc...(think top one was also sung using skipping ropes)..Bring back any memories?....hahaha this is a great thread! ??. Can't remember that one Paula, sorry ?
It's coming back to me now clarice673, but we use to say 1, 2 buckle me shoe ,3, 4 shut the door, 5, 6 pick up sticks ,7, 8 lay them straight, 9, 10 a big fat hen. Can't remember any more.
What about the one you use to do when picking teams or who was the one playing chase in dobby. 1 potato 2 potato 3 potato 4, 5 potato 6 potato 7potato more and O U T spells out.
Paula, just spoke to hubby and we didn't have snobs we have little silver things we did the same with but they were called..."chinks", looked like wee mines! ?
Ha ha ha,..was great fun...kids now a days say they have nothing to do, would do them better all round if they did a few of the things we did....(would get them outside and OFF PS3/4's and phones) ??.
Go karts were known as Jiggers in my part of North London, which was probably to do with the orange boxes that were nabbed from the greengrocer on the local market stall, whose family name was Jiggins. Then with a bit of simple engineering, purloined pram wheels and bits of skipping rope, the jiggers were raced up and down the street, or converted into temporary carriers when we collected piles of newspapers and took them down to the paper mill to get extra pocket money.
Chinkies were known as Jacks, and required a lot of skill the further you progressed. Likewise two-ball against the wall, chanting various rhymes, only one of which I can remember:
My little red ball went over the wall, I told my mum. She smacked my bum, And made it R E D (the word spelled out with extra bounces of the balls).
Or skipping "Salt, mustard, vinegar, pepper" - the last word being a double turn of the rope. Or a long piece of rope (washing line) twirled from one side of the road to the other, with anything up to a dozen people running in to join the skipping, though I can't remember the special rhymes for that.
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Great memories guys, yes paula my dad made us a gokart, i thought we were unique,seems lots of you did the same, ours had the pram handle as pully and for steering, if being pushed,i got run over at the back of my ankle one time when i was playing the 'horse'
my sister and i used to 'race' each other when the racing was on tv, we would each sit on an arm of the sofa with our dressing gown cord tied round the foot, as reins...i went on to own my own horses for 35 years,gave up this year and turned to gardening...
my dad had a little white mini pickup that he went to work in, my mum had an avenger with a dodgy starter motor. We lived on a very slight slope,so many a morning us 3 kids had to bump start my mum to work!
I was a Scott Walker fan too.
My mother made hobby horses out of broomsticks and old socks stuffed for my sister and me which we raced around on.
Loana, I have had to stop riding recently too, arthritis, but I still have my horses, one is 22 and the other 17. My daughter may take the younger one, the other has retired, bad back, but she was a nervy difficult ride.
Hi all, what lovely memories. we had a hand made go-kart also....(plenty of laughs and bruises)..???. Used to also play "Kirbie" where you threw the football from one side of road to other and extra points if the ball hit opposite Kerb and came back to you. One game I used to love was called...."Doublers" where you played up against a wall of choice with 2 tennis balls, singing some tune that went with the game ? But can't remember what offhand.
Sunday night was boring: handwashing tights etc in kitchen sink for school (after) listening to top 40 while doing the dishes and then hanging them or sitting them on top of big gold fire guard...(that clicked into wall) beside coal fire. Then having to watch "One man and his dog and Mastermind" with my dad before bed...
Funny enough,I rather like One man and his dog now....?
clarice673 I remember two balls. I can't remember the songs either .
Can you remember snobs, where you had about six small different coloured cubes (like dice).You would throw them up and catch them on the back of your hand, depending how many you caught, lets say three. You then had to throw the three up again and pick up the other three and catch them altogether, with one hand.
There's nothing left for me---of days that used to be---Just a memory among my souvenirs
The ming vase in the hall---the tin bath on the wall---Fishmongers "calla herrin" call----Among my souvenirs
The toilet down the yard----Made me a Welsh bard----With no door on the thing----You really learned to sing
Bread we had to slice---Cheese that frightened mice---The skin on pudding rice---Among memory souvenirs.
Apology's to Vera Lynn, Frank.
one two three aleary
I spy Wallace Beery
sitting on his bumbaleary
kissing Shirley Temple: Was one of them and then there was :
Under the branches under the trees boom boom boom boom true love to you ma darlin true love to me,etc etc etc...(think top one was also sung using skipping ropes)..Bring back any memories?....hahaha this is a great thread! ??. Can't remember that one Paula, sorry ?
It's coming back to me now clarice673, but we use to say 1, 2 buckle me shoe ,3, 4 shut the door, 5, 6 pick up sticks ,7, 8 lay them straight, 9, 10 a big fat hen. Can't remember any more.
What about the one you use to do when picking teams or who was the one playing chase in dobby. 1 potato 2 potato 3 potato 4, 5 potato 6 potato 7potato more and O U T spells out.
Paula, just spoke to hubby and we didn't have snobs we have little silver things we did the same with but they were called..."chinks", looked like wee mines! ?
Ha ha ha,..was great fun...kids now a days say they have nothing to do, would do them better all round if they did a few of the things we did....(would get them outside and OFF PS3/4's and phones) ??.
we also called those things, chukkies....?
Go karts were known as Jiggers in my part of North London, which was probably to do with the orange boxes that were nabbed from the greengrocer on the local market stall, whose family name was Jiggins. Then with a bit of simple engineering, purloined pram wheels and bits of skipping rope, the jiggers were raced up and down the street, or converted into temporary carriers when we collected piles of newspapers and took them down to the paper mill to get extra pocket money.
Chinkies were known as Jacks, and required a lot of skill the further you progressed. Likewise two-ball against the wall, chanting various rhymes, only one of which I can remember:
My little red ball went over the wall, I told my mum. She smacked my bum, And made it R E D (the word spelled out with extra bounces of the balls).
Or skipping "Salt, mustard, vinegar, pepper" - the last word being a double turn of the rope. Or a long piece of rope (washing line) twirled from one side of the road to the other, with anything up to a dozen people running in to join the skipping, though I can't remember the special rhymes for that.