Owd Pastimes

[flashy]

i remember emptying my mums cupboards and playing shops with my sister, my gran used to save the tops off sterilsed milk bottles and give them us to play with, cant remember what we did with them though, and when i was really young i used to get my mums wooden spoon and pans and pretend they where drums

[grannyclaret]

Originally Posted by flashytart

i remember emptying my mums cupboards and playing shops with my sister, my gran used to save the tops off sterilsed milk bottles and give them us to play with, cant remember what we did with them though, and when i was really young i used to get my mums wooden spoon and pans and pretend they where drums

We used to put two carboard milk bottle tops together and make pom poms with bits of old wool..
We used to put four nails in the top of a used bobbin of cotton and wind wool round it,then flip it over each nail with a pin .. it looked like a sausage comming down the hole, but it kept us happy for hours

[Margaret Pilkington]

Granny, they called that 'french knitting'....used to do it........ but never made it into anything very exciting.

[cashman]

just remembered, we used to balance empty milkbottles on door handles,then knock n hide around the corner. happy days.

[chrissy]

we used to call it nik nak

[chrissy]

to see wot e could see see see, I remember that

[panther]

Originally Posted by chrissy

we used to call it nik nak

there crisp arnt they? ................

[Eric]

Anyone remember a game called "Owzat" played with hexagonal (I think) die. One guy rolled as the batter, and the other rolled the bowler. I remember buying a set at E. J. Riley's in Accy. I think. Anyway the store was down by the viaduct on Blackburn Rd.

There is a Canadian version of nik nak: Fill one large brown paper bag with doggie doo, place the bag on someone's doorstep, light it, pound on the door and yell "fire", take off and run like stink. Maybe peek back and watch whoever comes out stomp on the bag. Just thought I'd mention this in case anyone of you would like to try it on the way home from the pub.

[mallard]

I Once Peged A Rug It Was Fun But Now The Accyweb Has Took Its Place

[chrissy]

Does anyone remember those 2 balls, one on each end of a sting. first of all you would make them bang together at the bottom then make them `clack`as you got faster. Were they called `clackers`?

And power balls, small black hard as iron balls that you only bounced once as it would disapear somewhere miles away in the long grass

And dont forget elastic skipping, you would get a long piece of elastic tie it and place it around two pair of your mates legs, then continue to do certain movements entwining the elastic with your feet , then jump out

[cashman]

Originally Posted by cazzer

Piece of brghtly coloured card on a string. used to wind the string round and round, then pull - made a lovely whirring sound.

3-balls, against the wall, allsorts of variations on the throw!
Can still do that now!

Jacks, elastic, two rope skipping.

Allsorts of schoolyard games - anyone bring some to mind?

just had me memory jogged by a photo in observer, a schoolyard game that was very enjoyable i reckon- Kiss Catch, the lads would stand in middle of junior school yard n the girls would try to run across without being caught, wern't many got past cashy.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by cashman

just had me memory jogged by a photo in observer, a schoolyard game that was very enjoyable i reckon- Kiss Catch, the lads would stand in middle of junior school yard n the girls would try to run across without being caught, wern't many got past cashy.

It's no wonder there's loads of old photographs of kids with broken glasses, mended with a plaster, bruises, scabby knees, weeping boils, and cold sores.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by garinda

It's no wonder there's loads of old photographs of kids with broken glasses, mended with a plaster, bruises, scabby knees, weeping boils, and cold sores.

been looking at your old school photos again Rindi

[talentedbutslow]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Also used to slide down Rileys Hill on a tin tray......wore a hole in it and then put it back in the cupboard.....my Ma was livid.......none of us(there were 7 kids) would own up so she banged all our heads together to see who got the hardest knock......and I was given an extra slap for being the eldest and letting it happen!

Done that too,Margaret......lived on Marsden St .........

[Margaret Pilkington]

Really Tal!!!!? When was that? Do you remember the chippy at the end of the Street.....and Mrs Almonds bake shop....Frank Greenhalgh's grocery shop too.
The Woodnook Pub and the Band Club......aah, they were happy days. Though we never had much money...we had friends and good neighbours.