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Back in the seventies 1975 be be factual, amongst the well known sweets like drumsticks, gobstoppers and rhubarb and custard one pence chews a new amazing sweet or candy was released upon all school kids - Space Dust. This stuff was something quite different as it changed colour while it explodes on your tongue. The ...
"Every body want to rule the world", was a statement and song by Tears for Fears in the eighties. Risk enables your dreams to come true. With up to six players the purpose is to own every country in every continent. The continents if fully occupied reward you with armies each go, the harder to occupy ...
One of the classic designs over the years is the Penguin book. In recent times this iconic design has even been used on deck chairs, bags, t-shirts and other household items. But how did it all start? Back in 1935, if you wanted to read a good book, you needed either a lot of money or ...
Now i don't know if it was just my school, but before the days of calculators or calculator watches (see previous blog) Cuisenaire Rods were the way yo add and take away in the early years of school. The wooden coloured rods are named after their inventor, Georges Cuisenaire, a Belgian primary school teacher, who published ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Superfast Matchbox number 09 AMX Javelin was one for every boys collection. This was a seriously fast little car and would give most cars a run for their money on any racing track. The car was first produced in 1964 and normally was seen in green though other rarer colours are known such as blue ...
