[guide.chat] In Reply To: [guide.chat] To Daft Jim
- From: "James Liddell" <james.liddell2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Carol O'Connor" <missbossyboots33@xxxxxxxxx>, "guide chat" <guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:24:20 +0100
Hi, carol,
Your first memory reminded me of a trip to the dentist.
We made those wheeled contraptions - but we called them soap-boxes or bogies.
Going down hills was really brilliant.
Hitting the one tree for thirty yards all around wasn't.
Hence trip to dentist...
As for hopscotch, we called them peevers or 'beds' up here. They were a part of
childhood I used to envy - I couldn't see the lines so couldn't join in.
Same with skipping ropes, which both boys and girls used to play.
Of course, there were the crazes - hula hoops, 'clackers' - those things which
had a habit of smashing to bits if you used them a lot - and, of course, yo-yos.
All these things demanded skill and physical as well as mental effort.
I haven't heard of kids playing them for yonks.
I live in a small town surrounded by fields, and old woodland, as well as newly
planted forestry on the ground where open-cast mining took place.
Apparently, kids don't go there 'cos there are no buttons to push.
-----Original Message-----
From: Carol O'Connor - Email Address: missbossyboots33@xxxxxxxxx
Sent On: 20/06/2012 07:45
Sent To: guide chat - Email Address: guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [guide.chat] To Daft Jim
Hi Jim
Oh loved the old things we all used as kids and teenagers
Me and my friends used to make what you call a glider on wheels
your probably thinking what on earth is she on about
well I weill tell you.
we got peice of thick wood
we put two weels on front and two weels on back then we tied rope around this
bar of the two weels on front
wow got two of us on it
its low too bit like a slay at christmas but this is home made.
got lots of splinters in us though hahahahahahaha
pinch the weels of old prams and trollies in the 70's .
great fun but we had to go on hill though in order to get it going fast with
two of us on lift our legs up otherwised get them trapped.
Oh wish kids of today generation would cheer up and play
nobody plays
we loved
drawing white chalk all over the pavements draw faces on their
loved the hopscotch we drew with white chalk in middle of street threw tin of
polish on the numbers
you had three narrow squares with numbers
1.2.3.
then two squares above that then one square in middle then two ig squares on
top
wow happy times
Very happy believe me.
nowdays kids just hang around streets or go in their houses on their play
stations or x boxes
Sad.
I loved tieing our skipping ropes to lamp post and let friends jump up and down
in it oh wow
this might sound daft now but the ladies in the 50's on here weill know what I
am talking about here now.
We got loads of thick elastic bands tied them all together to make it really
long.
we put it over the small dustbins that is what they were called in them days.
not as big as the weely bins
we put the elastic band over there
i would stand inside it legs apart while friends jumped in and out twisted all
the elastic in different styles
we had brilliant laugh with that.
Another thing we loved
was,
playing two balls on the wall outside wow good fun in them days
if our kids of today were all to play like we did believe me all we would hear
outside is laugher all the time.
I loved my roller skates too silver metal ones with red leather on top with
lace.
going up and down avenue like a kid
mum be shouting out of the bedroom window
Carol,your going to break your bloody neck on them if your not careful
oh good times
oh wish kids of today would play
Going now got to sort myself and by the way carer is definately coming today
she phoned me last night to jog my memory
Love Carol xxxx
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