Tufty

Tufty

Back in 1961 before the Green Cross Code man was a squirrel named Tufty. Created by the UK National Road Safety Committee to raise awareness of pedestrian road safety in the UK for children on there way to school.   Tufty was part of a series of puppet animation public information films. Tufty the Fluffytail squirrel was ...

Marathon / Snickers

Marathon and Snickers

For those that grew up in the UK and Ireland a strange change took place in every kids lunch box in the late eighties and early nineties. The Marathon bar was renamed to Snickers.   Why Snickers? Why would anyone choose a name that rhymed with knickers? Apparently it was named after a horse owned by a ...

Wembley board game

Wembley board game

Now here is a blast from the past board game - The Wembley board game This board game was a great addition to my collection after finding one at a jumble sale as a kid. The idea of the game is to manage a team to through various rounds of the FA cup and to win ...

Lego

Lego

Now lego was probably my favourite toy when growing up as it had such major flexibility and rewarded imagination.Like Mechanno lego was also a construction toy though Lego was invented in Denmark. The original lego seemed to have few colours compared to the current colorful interlocking plastic bricks available today with all sorts of built in ...

Knitted clothes

Knitted clothes

For most my childhood i was haunted by knitted items. It seemed the war overlapped into my life 50 years on. Can you beleive that at our infants school, for drama and PE (Pyhsical Education) parents were asked to Knit leaotards for the girls and shorts for the boys. Well apart from the fact that ...