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Posts: 391 (03/06/2008 09:28:17) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Tags : None We were having one of our family meets round the table last night ( have one every couple of weeks since the kids went their merry way) and we were talking about the games they used to play. I was a single mum of two, and mine were not allowed out unless they had somehere to go ( no hanging around on street corners) We would play cards and board games for hours, still do every now and then. But it got me thinking about my childhood games, hopscotch, British bull dog, whats the time Mr Wolf!! and.............Snobs, does anyone remember snobs, five cubes you threw up and caught on the back of your hand, then all sorts from there, pease pudding hot, pease pudding cold, this is the house that Jack built............Oh i really wanna play it NOW. OMG just read this post back and i sound like some rambling old nut case Oh and double ball up against the wall!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bet the younger forum members think i'm a right balm pot Happy memories. Jay. xx
qatar calling		#1	[-]
Posts: 7903 (10/10/1949 21:12:48) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Oh, double ball - and french knitting (cats cradle) and the elastic string which you wound round your friends ankles. Donna X
mum2many		#2	[-]
Posts: 391 (03/06/2008 09:39:16) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Forgotten all about the elastic game Donna, wouldn't be allowed to do that in today's playground..........health and safety and all that. lol. Jay. xx
Tina		#3	[-]
Posts: 29908 (03/06/2008 09:44:30) Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Jacks and jack straws
Carolynleah		#4	[-]
Posts: 1768 (03/06/2008 09:44:38) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	My 22 year old son asked for a new game of draughts for last Christmas, remembering how he used to enjoy spending his holidays playing board games . We had a tournament and he is still the best at it
Ginger		#5	[-]
Posts: 7657 (03/06/2008 09:49:23) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Jay...your post has brought back so many memories.....we used to call Snobs...Jacks....and used to use 5 little stones ( you can tell I'm older than you) The farmers in his den..was another one Kiss chase....did my best to catch 'Chucker' Lovatt but he always got away! The Bib Ship sails on the illy ally O...I think it was called that ....oh and we skipped for hours and played hopskotch too and many more!! MEMORIES eh!! love Sheila xx
qatar calling		#6	[-]
Posts: 7903 (03/06/2008 09:50:46) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	The girls spent all playtime with those elastics and odd bits of string when I was young. Ooh, and does anyone remember clackers - I was good at those. Don't suppose they're allowed to do handstands up the wall anymore either........ Donna X
sandy		#7	[-]
Posts: 267 (03/06/2008 09:51:39) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	oh they where the days i remember playing two balls for hours on end and hide and seek if only we could bring those days back
Tina		#8	[-]
Posts: 29908 (03/06/2008 09:52:33) Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	qatar calling wrote: The girls spent all playtime with those elastics and odd bits of string when I was young. Ooh, and does anyone remember clackers - I was good at those. Don't suppose they're allowed to do handstands up the wall anymore either........ Donna X I had massive bruises from those clackers!
mum2many		#9	[-]
Posts: 391 (03/06/2008 09:53:24) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Shelia wrote Kiss chase....did my best to catch 'Chucker' Lovatt but he always got away Jay. xx
NannieTina		#10	[-]
Posts: 1720 (03/06/2008 09:55:28) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	loved reading your post .i had forgotten about the elastic band game snakes and ladders is one that i played ,i played this with my children and now play it with my grand children Tina
Mummick		#11	[-]
Posts: 57 (03/06/2008 09:57:17) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Oh!!!! I do remember all those games, we used to call the game with the five stones (and when we were little we used to use stones) 'Jacks' Jay It is up to us to teach the young. I have taught all my grandchildren Jacks, Two Ball with all the associated songs. Hop Scotch (this was a firm favorite as we did it outside and the neighbours young children joined in). I think they liked washing the chalk off the pavement with brooms and buckets of water.Skipping singularly and in groups (one each end of the "washing Line") also the one where you twirl the rope twice but only jump once. A bit long in the tooth to do that and fell over. The young teach us so much also. My first trampoline escapade last summer ( a jug of M & S carva sangria was the cause of that) with my seven year old grandaughter(Trampoline not sangria!!!!) cured the trapped nerve in my neck. So come all mothers and grandparents do not let these games be forgotton. Keep young in spirit if not in body. luv to all Marianne
mum2many		#12	[-]
Posts: 391 (03/06/2008 09:57:28) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Tina wrote I had massive bruises from those clackers! You and me both Tina, but they were great fun, actually seen them for sale on Ebay.......................shall i..................nooooooooooo Jay. xx
qatar calling		#13	[-]
Posts: 7903 (03/06/2008 09:58:09) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Sheila - wot are you like - wonder if Chucker Lovatt remembers being chased Forgot about kiss chase - hated it - bleurgh, boys were so yukky Donna X
craftymims		#14	[-]
Posts: 1783 (03/06/2008 09:58:48) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	We spent our playtimes with our dresses tucked in our knicker legs doing handstands against the wall, (perhaps that's where Paula gets her knicker tucking from but has extended it to pancakes etc.) Also 2balls, doing unders and overs, hopscotch. When we are on holiday or just up for a mad hour we get the games or cards out, usually cards - our favourite is sevens. Ludo can be such a hoot after a shared bottle of wine. Off to get the cards out. Hugs Marion W
mum2many		#15	[-]
Posts: 391 (03/06/2008 10:01:42) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Marianne, two of my younger grandchildren can't stand each other, if i gave them a rope i dread to think what they would do, i know they wouldn't be skipping. lol Jay. xx
Beas Nanny		#16	[-]
Posts: 6257 (03/06/2008 10:06:21) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Must admit we play board games still - mainly when Ikklewol stays. I also play dominoes with her a lot, and we are just teaching 2year old granddaughter to play with picture dominoes. but going back to playground games - we used to play marbles, five stones (as we called snobs), jacks (similar to five stones but with star shaped metal pieces) handstands against the wall, and skipping games. Local children still seem to play hopscotch as they have painted layouts on their playgrounds. Ikklewol does skipping - they apparently have a skipping area allocated on their playground. I was trying to teach her "bumps" skipping - is that what we called it - when you did extra fast turn with your hands. Another playground favourite when we were quite young was "in and out the dusty bluebells". as an adult we used to play cards a lot, when my parents and mil were alive and when the children's godparents lived nearby. Have spent many a Saturday evening playing Canasta. Now cards seem to just be played at Christmas. Mags oo have just remembered a craze from my secondary school years - "pik-a-stix" anybody remember them? think I have still got my set. Last Edited By: Beas Nanny 03/06/2008 10:11:01. Edited 1 times.
Ginger		#17	[-]
Posts: 7657 (03/06/2008 10:30:46) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Donna, I never caught him but when I was ten I had meningitis (lucky to have survived in those days!) and all my class had to write to me instead of writing an essay.....I've still got the letters and the special one from 'Chucker' Lovatt (don't know where he is these days) and all the boys wrote 'Chucker is dying to play kiss chase with you when you're better'! Boy was I thrilled...I had such a crush on him....but like things do it fizzled out!!! Ooo I'm enjoying thinking back...life was so easy going in those days...didn't have a care in the world! Ah bliss!! love Sheila xx
Jacqueline Pratt		#18	[-]
Posts: 3370 (03/06/2008 10:54:06) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I remember pik a stix Mags, very large cocktail sticks with coloured ends that you had to remove carefully from a pile without disturbing the rest. Competitions to see who could stay in a handstands\headstands the longest with, as Marion says, your dress tucked into your knicker legs. Playing camping with an old wooden clothes horse with a sheet over it as a tent and seeing how high you could make the swing go. My favourite was always my skates or scooter though. Simple happy times without any worries J
lady of kent		#19	[-]
Posts: 406 (03/06/2008 10:54:57) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Ah brings back happy times, the children nowadays say there is nothing for them to do, there was even less for us, but we made up the games, and I dont remember being bored, there was never enough hours in the day for us lv Janet
Teenie		#20	[-]
Posts: 294 (03/06/2008 11:00:48) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I used to spend hours on end playing with two small tennis balls with my friends and chanting loads of different rhymes as we did it. can't really remember the words now though (joys of old age!!). Also loved plaing Chinese Launders with two skipping ropes. When my kids get together (they are in their 20's still), they still bring out the Monopoly board and spend hours of laughter round the coffee table. Teenie x

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