Liverpudlian nonsense prose

[suzard]

aah-fleecy lined knickers with a pocket for your handkerchief!!!

Suz

[garstonite]

My friends wives still laugh at me ....we never said Knickers...it was Navy Blue Draws....pull your draws straight ....was that just a Garston thing ?....and yet we did say don`t get your knickers in a twist...strange    ...allan

[LizzieW]

I lived in Cheshire and we used to call them navy blue drawers too.  We all played the 1, 2, 3 O'leary ball game too exactly as described by Ann and all in a line as mentioned by Allen.  This was in the late 1940s.  Gosh, it's an eternity away.

I can remember the elastic breaking, I was forever knotting the two broken ends together.

Lizzie

[Lal]

I remember playing that ball game in the 1970s! And I remember calling knickers 'drawers', even though we'd moved on to nylon by then My mum always used to chuckle about 'Lucy Lastic' and 'Slack Alice' when she talked about the big pants they had to wear

[Michelle56]

Oh what a laugh!

You have rekindled a lot of memories for me. 

I will have a lot of fun teaching these to my grandchildren. 

Michelle

[MUMMYG]

EEny meeny macaraca
aireye dominacca
chicca pocca lollipoppa
om tom tosh

remember this one?

eye see a
nose mella
mouth eata
chin chucka
titty minky
belly button
hanky panky
knee knocker
toe tripper!

said whilst tickling each place on a naked baby.

[LoneyBones]

Babies....
This little piggie went to market...
This little piggie stayed home...
This little piggie had roast beef...
This little piggie had none...
And this little piggie went weeee  weeeee weeeee weeeee all the way home.
    

[Viktoria]

Hold the baby`s hand, palm upwards and gently circle with your finger whilst saying " Round and round the garden, like a teddy bear, one step, two steps --whilst saying this part "walk" your fingers up baby`s arm to the armpit, when there say---tickle him (or her)under  THERE --and tickle them. Shrieks of delight.
Peek-a-Boo  or Hidey-Boo  Sit in front of the baby and hide your face with a hanky or such like, saying gently and slowly  H-I-D-E-Y- then BOO-but do it quite gently or it can frighten, and they are so delighted when you appear again then they get used to the game.But babies seem to think you have gone forever when you hide your face for only a short while so only keep them waiting a very short while .They  try to peep  round the hanky but love the game just as much  and start to anticipate your reappearance. They never tire of it..
It shows how important face to face contact and facial expressions are to young children.
I might start a campaign to have pushchairs and buggies facing mum!!!.  Viktoria.

[heywood]

Viktoria,
those buggies have been blamed for poorer language development in children. How I agree with you.When we push our grandson in his pram where he can see us - we talk to him constantly- pointing out things on the road. When he is in his forward facing buggy- there is so little contact. Luckily he gets lots of interaction but I have, in my job, seen children who rarely get any conversation.

heywood