Remember When...

[Nanna52]

Just loving this thread. So many toys I had forgotten about now remembering and bringing back happy memories.

Wanted to share this as not always toys that amuse us.  Does anyone remember 'round and round the garden like a teddy bear', where you walk your fingers around a childs hand and then tickle them under the arm?  Was taught to me by my mother, I did it to my daughter and grandchildren and today whilst visiting my great grandson aged 13 months, my grandaughter was playing it with him.  He loved it and was laughing and trying to do it back!  Priceless to watch.

I also played that with son and grandchildren.  There was: Can you keep a secret, I don't suppose you can.  You mustn't laugh you mustn't cry, but do the best you can.  Using same actions.  This Little Piggy was a great favourite too. 

[kiwihalfpint]

Don't forget "Simon Says" and "Statues" where we had to be still as on a command.   There was also the trampoline which was hours of fun.   Three year old grand daughter asked me yesterday "Will you come on the trampoline with me" ... and we have fun on it


Cheers
KHP

[Wiggy]

and did you??   

[groom]

Got to watch those trampolines - dangerous things. My great nephew fell when getting off one and broke his arm. At the hospital they said he was the sixth child that week to have done the same. 

[Wiggy]

Arms are the least of it too - I can't bear to watch my grandchildren on the trampoline!   

[kiwihalfpint]

and did you??   

Oh yes   Ring a Ring Rosie is one we play on it.  We have a safety net installed and one of us is always by the trampoline.

Cheers
KHP

In my youth, there was a camping ground that had their trampolines at ground level.   They scooped all the dirt out and lodged the trampoline in the hollow.

[Meezer]

Kids don't need trampolines to break arms and legs - we used to fall out of trees and off rope swings. My husband remembers a friend breaking a leg when the rope broke and I landed face down in a ditch and knocked myself out!

Don't think it improves with age either - a friend's grandmother broke her arm at 76. She fell off a sledge    Said she just had to have a go when she saw the kids 

[Greensleeves]

You're right there, Meezer - we had so many different ways of injuring ourselves horribly.  We all got terribly excited when one of the boys fell off a haystack and broke his leg.  In the playground - with tarmac surface, of course - we used to try to do 'loop-the-loop' with the swings.  One boy achieved it an was carted off to hospital as we excitedly spead the news that he had 'cut his head open'.   Broken arms were common on the ice slides which Maggie described so vividly earlier in the thread; and when we progressed to bicycles, we used to make string reins for the handlebars and ride them like horses, which inevitably opened up even more opportunities for Horrible Accidents.

Barbed wire fences were always good for slicing flesh, particularly if they were rusty which then added an additional hazard of 'blood poisoning'.  And those rope swings - particularly the ones over water courses  - were just brilliant in ensuring you went limping home with a twisted ankle or worse.

[Meezer]

Probably sounds a bit cruel but that's made me chuckle Greensleeves as it's so true - as kids we had a ghoulish fascination for injuries! I've been riding horses since I was a child and it's a fact that if you ride them then you fall off them yet the general reaction amongst us as kids was laughter. I remember a horse falling down on top of a girl in the mud once, pinning her underneath - we were hysterical when she emerged as she was like a bog monster and we cheerfully hoisted her back on again. It was only when she started swaying and talking rubbish that we realised that something wasn't quite right - she ended up in hospital for 3 days with concussion. Mind you as adults we're not much better, a few years ago I was catapaulted off my horse, turned in mid air and came down perfectly positioned to be wedged upside down in a ditch with my legs in the air in a V-sign. The 2 friends I was with couldn't do a thing as they were crying hysterically with laughter. Even the horse stared at me as if to say "oh you've got off then!" I got back on with as much dignity as I could muster