Those were terrifying stories, Wiggy, weren't they? And the Grimm fairytales weren't much better. When you think of a lot of the stories we were told, it's a wonder we ever slept at night.
Wasn't it Bing Crosby?
Cheers
KHP
I loved watching The Railway Children...and Four Feather Falls...when I look back and see the old footage it makes me all fuzzy and warm ;D
Carol
Did anyone else have a Golly...one of my favourite soft toys that is now very Un-PC....I used to collect the tokens from jam jars to send for the badges...I never realised the racial implications until I was much older...I just saw it as a colourful, happy character that was fun to have.
Carol
I remember when I was very small that my father read a bed-time story to me and my brother which involved jungle animals.
For those in the UK this might bring back some memories of Christmas past http://ukchristmastv.weebly.com/
How about Milly Molly Mandy? Can't remember who wrote it though.
radstockjeff
For those in the UK this might bring back some memories of Christmas past http://ukchristmastv.weebly.com/
Great site, just looked at 1959 and saw that Quatermass and the Pit was showing, it used to frighten me to death and I was in my 20's then
Mo
Ann - was the Enid Blyton magazine this one:
http://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/enid-blytons-magazine.php
I used to read it too.
Does anyone remember the Gonk? somewhere in the 60's a bit of a craze. Several friends had one, just a humpty dumpty shape. I hadn't the pocket money to get the real thing but made one in miniature :)
Have both of those and one on the Wombles. A friend used to make the latter and sell them.
Cheers
KHP
I remember making ginger beer. The process was full of mystery as you would be given what was referred to amongst my friends as 'a plant'? I now suppose this was yeast. You then mixed it up with the ginger and put it in a capped bottle in the cylinder cupboard, where invariably it exploded.Yep I remember making our own Ginger peer - great fun and wonderful taste!
Great fun.
Remember when we had sticky flypapers hanging from the ceiling?
Joe
How about Milly Molly Mandy? Can't remember who wrote it though.
radstockjeff
Remember when we had sticky flypapers hanging from the ceiling?
Joe
I remember having both of those. This thread is certainly bringing back memories of Christmas past.
Yes, I had those as well - and of course, as I think we've mentioned elsewhere, the smoker's set. Candy cigarettes and matches, liquorice pipes, chocolate cigars and brown shredded coconut tobacco. Fancy giving that to a seven year old. Then there were the chocolate selection boxes. ;D
How about painting by numbers? I used to love those when I got a bit older.
All this talk of fruit reminds me of my very first introduction to the mango - when I was 22 and leaving for England on my first great adventure (and I am having a mango for dinner tonight too! ;))Snap Wiggy ......... I got here to live in 1948 ......... my wife to be introduced me to mangoes,rock melon and passion fruit ....... thought I was in heaven. :) :)
A nursing friend in Sydney met our ship when we berthed for the day and took me home to her place and we had mango for lunch - she advised me that the very best place to eat mango was in the bath as they are so messy - I have learnt how to cope with them now! ;D I'd never even seen one before let alone eaten one. Delicious.
How many new vegetables have you met in adulthood which you never saw as a child?
This thread has brought back so many memories especially the items in the stocking. In the late 40's I always had a pomegranate in mine as well as the orange. Have vague recollections of eating it with a pin to dig out the pips.
Funny thing was I only ever saw them at Christmas don't remember any others in the family eating them either but then maybe that's probably the old memory box ;D
Jean
Newberry Fruits - I'd forgotten those. I used to try and bite/suck all the jelly off without breaking the liquid centre. Christmas was always a special time as we had foods and drink that we didn't have during the rest of the year. Nowadays we can get them all year round.
That brought memories Groom...I did too...and threepenny bits in the Christmas Pudding :D :D
Carol
The threepenny bit was my one-way bus fare to school if the weather was so awful it meant I couldn't walk the mile and a half uphill - funny but I cannot ever remember going by bus!