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Old 10-07-2006, 20:25   #1
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Did anyone else use the I-Spy books that were around in the `70s. I spent many a happy hour.... alright week trying to find a Bentley Continental and an Iso Grifo to finish off my I-Spy book of cars. I never did get to send it off to Big Chief I-Spy to be stamped. I was gutted!
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Old 11-07-2006, 16:50   #2
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Re: Odhu Ntinggo

I remember having one which was what you could find in the street such as post boxes etc. Mine never got sent away either but we did get the badges from the jam. I won't mention the name!!
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Old 11-07-2006, 17:38   #3
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I remember other people having them. I also remember 'asking Father Christmas' for a couple. I also remember not getting one but getting 'something better' - like when I asked for Lego and got 'Bako' instead.
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Old 11-07-2006, 20:42   #4
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That happened to me Willow and I got Stickle bricks when I really wanted Meccano.

Anyway, back on thread - yes I do remember the I-Spy books. I really wish I'd been told early on to keep stuff like that. I can be pretty ruthless in a clearout and it's only now that I've got kids that I know the value of keeping school books and things that might be important in a few years time.
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Old 12-07-2006, 07:03   #5
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I have to ask, whats with teh title of the thread?
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Old 12-07-2006, 07:27   #6
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Re: Odhu Ntinggo

The I-Spy books I were given in the seventies were from the fifties!

I had I-Spy wildlife, flowers and birds, all of which held little connection to what I could spy on the moors around Ossy, so I could never send off to say I'd completed it.

I also had an I-Spy annual from the fifties which was just surreal. It had a photo story about two children in some white caves in France , which I found really scarey. It also had a play in, which I produced (and starred in) at Moor End Primary in 1975, which was very good.
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Old 12-07-2006, 08:16   #7
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I have to ask, whats with teh title of the thread?
The title is from the code inside all the books devised by Big Chief I-Spy

Odhu Ntinggo=Good Hunting
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Old 12-07-2006, 09:39   #8
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I remember having one which was what you could find in the street such as post boxes etc. Mine never got sent away either but we did get the badges from the jam. I won't mention the name!!
Sorry, maybe off thread but I also collected the certain jam badges, I also collected the little pottery band and footy team you could get as well - in fact I still have some of them
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