Whist, rummy & spoons: all card games from my childhood.
Bendy Barbie dolls, beano magazine, bumuda shorts and dungarees.
How getting new trainers always felt like I could run fast, forever.
Being out till the street lights came on.
Digging to Australia in the back garden (maybe that's an English thing FMF: the digging).
Bending the bed matteress between the bed and wardrobe to make a den and covering it with a blanket to make the door.
Camping.
'Tree houses' which was a tree in the lane and stuff we'd found.
Playing on building sites (so glad my children don't do this).
Rabbit spotting up the hill till we almost got shot by idiots with guns who where aiming for them.
I think my kids spend far too much time indoors. But they're safe. I remember playing on a railway track once.
Old fashioned board games - Formula One, Escape from Colditz, Careers, Election X, also Avalon Hill games and the games that came with Strategy & Tactics magazine.
Originally posted by FMF Old fashioned board games - Formula One, Escape from Colditz, Careers, Election X, also Avalon Hill games and the games that came with Strategy & Tactics magazine.
Never played any of those. They all sound better than 'game of life' which I played once at my parents' friends and never finished a game.
Cludeo, that's a good board game, I played that. And every Christmas all mum's family met up & Balderdash came out.
Originally posted by FishHead111 Putting a playing card in the spokes of your bike so it sounded like you had a motorcycle.
Building a fort in the back yard.
Playing hide and seek and freeze-tag.
Setting homeless people on fire.
We did read that last activity. And I do believe you inserted that just to see if we do.
I ahve fond memories of exploring the Woods by going of the ways 🙂
We had a lot of fun building 'soapbox carts' from old pram wheels and a plank of wood with a smaller plank that could swivel at the front for steering.Going down hill you could sit on it and steer with your feet.On flat roads you knelt on the back and pushed with one foot and steered with a rope attached to the swivelling plank. They were very basic - not like the modern ones today with steering wheels and a seat inside some kind of plywood body.
8 years old in hospital, given a radio kit and it worked first time I powered it up after hours of assembly. Hooting and hollering ensues, nurses and doc's entering quickly to find me with earphones listening to a radio station from a kit I put together with my own two hands unsupervised. Great day🙂
Simple exciting things when we were kids
15 Feb '16 00:11
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