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School rubbers or erasers serverd two purposes at school, to smell and to be used as characters rolling around the desk when bored in a lesson. Oh yes and to erase any wrong pencil marks so that makes 3. Most of the characters were made by drawing faces on the rubber itself and naming it. Erasers came ...
Remember Pannini Stickers? When it came to "Swapsies", the indistuputable king at school were Pannini Football Stickers. These were an evolution of the Soccer bubble gum cards of the seventies. The stickers were swappable until you committed it to the sticker album, then unless a serious swap was offered that sticker was in for good. ...
Watch with Mother which included Andy Pandy, Muffin the Mule, the Wooden tops and Poggles woods to name a few, were often the first tv memory kids had in the sixties and seventies. For many years there was little else except this lunch time treat. Then the after school slot kicked in in the early seventies ...
Collecting match box labels was another hobby in the seventies. I Don't know why, but I had a phase as a kid of a bizarre need to collect match boxes. Most kids would be keener on what you could do with the matches - not me. It seems that the fact that there were so ...
In 1968 a book entitled "What do People do All Day?" was released by Richard Scarry. This gem of a book has continued to be a massive seller. With incredibly detailed illustrations, kids would spend hours and hours on a journey of detail scanning and double scanning each page of illustrative detail. The book is about what ...
This blog wouldn't be complete without the good old Whoopee Cushion. The joke was funny once and once only. Ten out of ten for novelty factor. Whoopee Cushions Poo-Poo Cushions or even Raspberry Cushions were a practical joke toy that has withstood the test of time and still raises a chuckle today (for the first few ...
Back in the late 70s early 80s there was a gold digging revolution. Anyone who lived near a iron age monument or the beach had one thing on their shopping list...a Metal Detector. It was all about massive dreams and hope and the never knowing what might be around the corner scenario that made it so ...
Every school desk or pencil case wasn't complete without the colourful array of the Pencil Tops. Some were rubber efficient others were smellies, some were munch bunch and others just disgusting. Most of my pencil tops or also known as toppers were of the vegetable kind. I seem to think they were also known as the ...
Back in 1980 cutting edge technology included the cool C-80 Casio Calculator Watch. Funnily enough retro watches are making a dramatic comeback, so before you start laughing on how awful these watches looked, take another look down the high street as these are selling fast! Most of the reproduction retro watches range from £50 - £100. It ...
Did any one else collect Brooke Bond Tea Cards or something similar? I still have a huge amount stashed away and was a proud collector as a kid. Additionally I collected cards that came with crisps and candy sweets too. If it looked like a card I collected it. Even lollipop ice-creams started releasing cards to ...
